Device for sorting coins

Claim 1

IN A DEVICE FOR EFFECTING A DOUBLE SORT OF COINS ACCORDING TO THEIR SIZE, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING A FIRST COIN SORTING MEANS INCLUDING A DOWNWARDLY SLOPING RAIL ON WHICH THE COINS ARE ARRANGED TO ROLL DOWN IN SEQUENCE, A PLURALITY OF COIN DEFLECTORS ARRANGED IN LONGITUDINAL SPACED RELATION ALONG AND ABOVE SAID RAIL AND AT PROGRESSIVELY DECREASING DISTANCES THEREFROM ACCORDING TO THE RESPECTIVE COIN VALUES TO BE SORTED, A TUBULAR FORMED COIN COLLECTOR AT EACH COIN DEFLECTOR POSITION FOR RECEIVING THE COINS DEFLECTED FROM SAID RAIL BY THE APPERTAINING DEFLECTOR, SAID COINS DROPPING THROUGH SAID COIN COLLECTORS BY GRAVITY, AND A SECOND COIN SORTING MEANS LOCATED AT THE LOWER DISCHARGE END OF EACH SAID COIN COLLECTOR, EACH SAID SECOND COIN SORTING MEANS BEING COMPRISED OF A CHANNEL HAVING A FLOOR ALONG WHICH ALL THE COINS SLIDE, THERE BEING AN ELONGATED GAP IN THE FLOOR HAVING A WIDTH LESS THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE COIN RECEIVED BY THE CHANNEL, AND THE DISTANCE BETWEEN ONE EDGE OF THE CHANNEL AND THE FAR EDGE OF THE GAP BEING AT LEAST EQUAL TO THE DIAMETER OF THE PROPER COIN VALUE FOR WHICH SAID CHANNEL IS DESIGNED WHEREBY COINS OF SAID PROPER VALUE WILL BE PASSED ALONG SAID CHANNEL TO THE DISCHARGE POINT THEREON WHEREAS OTHER "FOREIGN" COIN HAVING A DIAMETER LESS THAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID CHANNEL EDGE AND THE FAR EDGE OF SAID GAP WILL TILT DOWNWARDLY AND PASS THROUGH SAID GAP TO ANOTHER COIN RECEIVING MEANS.