Appeal No. 1999-1536 Page 2
Application No. 08/938,592
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a coin sorter comprising a rotatable disc having a
resilient upper surface, a stationary sorting head having a lower surface generally parallel to
and spaced slightly from the upper surface of the disc and forming a plurality of coin
denomination channels intersecting the periphery of the sorting head for sorting and discharging
coins of different denominations radially outwardly from the upper surface of the disc so that
the coins exit the disc horizontally, a coin sensor for sensing coins while they are on the disc,
and a shunting mechanism. The shunting mechanism of the invention is disposed in a coin
route extending from one of the exit channels to an associated coin-collecting container for
separating coins discharged from said one of the exit channels into two or more batches. Claim
49, the only claim on appeal, is reproduced in the appendix to appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are:
Black 3,795,252 Mar. 5, 1974
Ristvedt et al. (Ristvedt) 4,681,128 Jul. 21, 1987
The following rejection is before us for review . 1
1According to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 28, page 2), the rejection of claim 49 under the judicially
created doctrine of double patenting set forth on page 4 of the examiner's Office action (Paper No. 18, mailed
February 24, 1998) has been overcome by the filing of a terminal disclaimer on August 5, 1998 (Paper No. 26).
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