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Patent
CA 2147365
There are many occasions when it is required to sort a mixed lot of coins in- to their several denominations and when such a sort is carried out it is important that provision be made for distinguishing not only real coins of the required type one from another but also for differen- tiating both between these real coins and forgeries. The actual sorting - the physi- cal separation of each denomination from the others - can be accomplished in a variety of ways, and two of the most common involve one or other of what are known as disc sorters and ramp sorters; unfortunately, for either a disc or ramp sorter not merely to sort but also to dis- tinguish between proper and improper coins the equipment is inevitably ex- tremely bulky. The present invention seeks to overcome this size and weight problem, and indeed to provide a techni- cally rather more effective apparatus, by proposing a sorter which combines the facilities of both a disc and a ramp sorter. More specifically, the invention suggests a coin sorter (10) having both a disc (11) and a ramp (12), the disc being to gather the coins (14) from an associated feed hopper (15) and to deliver them to the ramp (12) via one or more detector station (16, 17) at which one or more of the coin's physical parameters is measured to determine whether the coin is proper or improper (and, if proper, very preferably what denomination it is), and the ramp (12) being in effect simply to separate the coins (14) into their various size- defined denominations and feed them to the appropriate delivery chutes (17).
Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
Mcl-Bowen Limited
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