Coin dispensing devices

Claim 1

A coin dispensing device of the disc type having a disc rotated by an electric motor, the disc being disposed in a first plane and arranged to rotate in said first plane in a housing constituting part of a coin storage bowl, a plurality of circumferentially spaced pegs or functionally equivalent structures on the face of the disc arranged to entrain coins in said bowl lying against the face of the disc between adjacent pegs as the disc rotates, a central concentric spigot on the face of the disc of a thickness equal to or slightly less than the thickness of a coin with which the dispensing device is intended to operate arranged to support coins carried between said pegs and a coin runner arranged tangentially to the periphery of the spigot onto which coins carried between said pegs on the spigot are delivered characterized in that a coin ejecting device is arranged in close proximity to the coin runner, the device consisting of a member disposed in a second plane which is spaced apart from and parallel to said first plane, said member being pivotally attached to the casing of the hopper for pivotal movement relative to the casing in said second plane, the member having a flat surface arranged parallel to the surface of the disc and spaced therefrom at a distance such that a single layer of coins may pass freely between it and the disc, to the coin runner, the member having on a face opposite said surface an inclined surface such that the member presents a knife edge towards oncoming coins, the arrangement being such that a second layer of coins carried by the disc to the member is caused either to fall back into the hopper by said inclined surface or, if propelled by a peg and in contact with said knife edge to act to pivot said member in said second plane in such a manner that the coin while being allowed to pass onto the coin runner is influenced by the member to fall off the coin runner back into the hopper.