G07F COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; )
Introduced: September 1968
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.
Title
Titles differ between systems:
IPC: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
CPC: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; )
Full Title
Full titles differ between systems:
COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; )
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 9 subcodes exist in both systems.
4 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
Child Classifications
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- G07F 1/00 Coin inlet arrangements; Coins specially adapted to operate coin-freed mechanisms IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G07F 11/00 Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G07F 13/00 Coin-freed apparatus for controlling dispensing or fluids, semiliquids or granular material from reservoirs IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G07F 15/00 Coin-freed apparatus with meter-controlled dispensing of liquid, gas or electricity +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G07F 17/00 Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services +5 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- 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) since 1990 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- 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 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- 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) +5 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC