Improvements in the subject of principal patent number 8803960 relating to 'Apparatus to promote saving'

摘要

Improvements in the subject of principal patent number 8803960 relating to 'Apparatus to promote saving'. The improvements subject of the invention stem from providing the apparatus 1 with a base 6, provided with a security door 7, in which there are located the coin-collecting pockets 11 from providing a system for detecting the passage of coins along the channels 16 of the distributor 12, based on sets of infrared-emitting diodes 19 and phototransistors 21 from effecting monitoring of the exhaustion of the roll 24 of envelopes 25 containing gifts by means of the photoelectric cell of the apparatus and a timer and from providing the slots 3-4 for introducing the coins and the magnetic card, with an equal number of shutters 33-34 actuated by electromagnets 35-36.