What would you look for in a coin sorting/counting machine?
engineering student
2006-03-03 00:00:39 UTC
I am assigned a project in which i have to design a coin sorting & counting machine. I need some key features and important characteristic that this machine should be equipped with!
Two answers:
Kes
2006-03-03 06:01:00 UTC
Distinguish first between "home use" and "commercial use" as to the volume of coins to be processed, the simplicity of the mechanism and the accuracy required. Also consider the end point. Will the coins be collected suitable for coin wrappers or merely separated and counted?
A home device should use gravity to separate coins by size (dimes, pennies, nickles then quarters "drop out" and 50 cent pieces are not included. Coins are introduced one-by-one at the top. Receptacles can be graduated to "count" enough coins for a wrapper. Such designs already exist.
A commercial machine could be electric and electronic and should process coins by the fist full, perhaps layering them then sweeping them over openings large enough for dimes, pennies, nickles and quarters to drop out into separate chambers (and 50 cent pieces could be processed the same way as well as silver dollars or Susan B. Anthony coins, etc. if desired). The coins could be "counted" either by the coin wrapper full or individualy. When coins are stacked in a cylinder and moved around a "bend" the outer edges can separated by a rotating spring acting as a "thread" and moved past a mechanical counter and further separated by a cam when a wrapper full has passed.
frankbalzan
2006-03-03 09:02:16 UTC
-Easy to insert coins into,
-Relatively quick to sort,
-No major clinking noise,
-It sorts them correctly ! no errors or else resorting would be required
-no power source required
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