Fare box with sorter

Claim 1

A COIN SORTING APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING AND DISTRIBUTING COIN PIECES ACCORDING TO THEIR DENOMINATIONS COMPRISING: MEANS PROVIDING A COMPARTMENT HAVING A COIN INLET AND A COIN OUTLET; A ROW OF COIN GUIDE MEMBERS DISPOSED IN SAID COMPARTMENT BETWEEN SAID INLET AND SAID OUTLET, MEANS PIVOTALLY MOUNTING SAID COIN GUIDE MEMBERS INDEPENDENTLY OF EACH OTHER ABOUT SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL SPACED APART AXES FOR MOVEMENT IN A SUBSTANTIALLY COMMON PLANE FROM ONE POSITION TO ANOTHER POSITION SPACED APART FROM SAID ONE POSITION, SAID COIN GUIDE MEMBERS BEING SO ARRANGED IN SAID ONE POSITION THAT THEY ABUT ADJACENTLY DISPOSED ONES OF SAID COIN GUIDE MEMBERS ADJACENT SAID INLET, AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO DIFFERENT COIN DENOMINATIONAL SIZES INTRODUCED INTO SAID APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY SHIFTING A DIFFERENT PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF SAID GUIDE MEMBERS IN SUCCESSION FROM SAID ONE POSITION TO SAID OTHER POSITION TO FORM A DIFFERENT GUIDEWAY THROUGH SAID COMPARTMENT FOR EACH DENOMINATION OF COIN PIECE TO BE SORTED.