COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; )

Description

Apparatus designed to operate or dispense goods/services only upon receipt of payment in the form of coins, tokens, or equivalent monetary instruments. Covers coin-operated machines including vending machines, turnstiles, parking meters, laundry equipment, and similar devices that validate and accept payment before enabling function. Encompasses the mechanical, electromechanical, and electronic mechanisms for coin detection, validation, storage, and actuation of dispensing or access control systems. Related currency-handling systems using banknotes or electronic payment methods are classified separately in adjacent categories.

9 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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G07F 1/00 Coin inlet arrangements; Coins specially adapted to operate coin-freed mechanisms
G07F 11/00 Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
G07F 13/00 Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs
G07F 15/00 Coin-freed apparatus with meter-controlled dispensing of liquid, gas or electricity
G07F 17/00 Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
G07F 19/00 Complete banking systems; Coded card-freed arrangements adapted for dispensing or receiving monies or the like and posting such transactions to existing accounts, e.g. automatic teller machines (data processing equipment for bank accounting G06Q40/02)
G07F 5/00 Coin-actuated mechanisms; Interlocks
G07F 7/00 Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
G07F 9/00 Details other than those peculiar to special kinds or types of apparatus (coin inlet arrangements G07F1/00; coin-actuated mechanisms, interlocks G07F5/00)