DISC COIN SORTER WITH IMPROVED EXIT CHANNEL

摘要

A disc-type coin sorter for sorting coin mixtures which include at least one coin denomination of a range of thicknesses, the sorter has a rotatable disc (13) having a resilient top surface (17), means (15) for rotating the disc, a stationary sorting head (12) having a lower surface positioned over and closely adjacent to the upper surface of the disc and having an opening in the central region thereof for feeding coins between the opposed surfaces of the disc and sorting head, the lower surface of the sorting head being contoured to align the coins in a single file and single layer of coins, and then sorting the coins according to their respective sizes, the contoured lower surface having at least one exit channel (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25) where the downstream guiding wall has a lower portion which is closed to the opposed, upstream wall of the channel than the upper portion of the downstream wall.