US PATENT CLASS 453
Class Notes
Current as of: June, 1999
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DEFINITION
Classification: 453/
This class includes machines and appliances employed for the purpose of handling coins (or checks or tokens similar in shape to coins and used as substitutes therefor), for facilitating the making of change or for transferring change from the clerk or cashier to the customer.
LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES
(1) Note. This class does not include means for transmitting money between a clerk and a cashier at a distance, for which see References to Other Classes, below.
(2) Note. For devices for testing coins see References to Other Classes, below.
(3) Note. This class does not include means for handling paper money. See References to Other Classes, below, for devices actuated by insertion of paper money; for paper money sorting; for paper money dispensers; and for paper money stacking or unstacking.
(4) Note. For token or check dispensing means not limited to facilitating transfer or making of change, including dispensing articles as rewards or prizes in game devices wherein no game device structure is included, and for such combinations with game devices, see References to Other Classes, below.
(5) Note. For removal facilitating magazine type token or check holding means, see References to Other Classes, below.
(6) Note. For coin handling in combination with accounting mechanism, see References to Other Classes, below. (7) Note. For coin handling combined with check controlled apparatus, see References to Other Classes, below.
(8) Note. For coin packages, receptacles, mats, and trays, see References to Other Classes, below.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
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53, Package Making, appropriate subclasses for methods of and apparatus for totally encompassing or encasing goods or materials with a separate cover or band which serves as means for identifying, protecting or unit handling the goods or materials,
52+, for coin wrapping mechanisms automatically controlled by the coins, subclasses 507+, for combined counters and wrappers, subclass 527 for stack formers for wrapping machines, and subclass 254 for disc (e.g., coin) packers.
73, Measuring and Testing,
163, for devices for testing coins.
177, Weighing Scales,
51, for devices for testing coins.
186, Merchandising, for means for transmitting money between a clerk and a cashier at a distance.
194, Check-Actuated Control Mechanisms, 302+, for devices for testing coins.
194, Check-Actuated Control Mechanisms,
206+, for devices actuated by insertion of paper money.
194, Check-Actuated Control Mechanisms, for coin handling combined with check controlled apparatus.
206, Special Receptacles and Packages,
.8+, for coin receptacles per se.
209, Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids, for devices for testing coins.
209, Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids for paper money sorting.
221, Article Dispensing, for paper money dispensers.
221, Article Dispensing, appropriate subclasses for token or check dispensing means not limited to facilitating transfer or making of change. Class 221 includes devices for dispensing articles, such as coins, checks or tokens as rewards or prizes in game devices wherein no game device structure is included.
229, Envelopes, Wrappers, and Paperboard Boxes, 87.2, and 92 for coin wrappers, packages and cards made of paper.
232, Deposit and Collection Receptacles, particularly
4+, for savings boxes, subclasses 7+, for fare boxes, subclass 33 for letter boxes combined with coin receptacles, subclasses 55+, for coin traps, and subclasses 64+, for coin deliverers for dumping change into a customer's hand.
235, Registers, for coin handling in combination with accounting mechanism.
271, Sheet Feeding and Delivering, for paper money stacking or unstacking.
273, Amusement Devices: Games, for a game device or apparatus combined with a device for dispensing articles, such as coins, checks, or tokens as rewards or prizes.
312, Supports: Cabinet Structure,
35+, for removal facilitating magazine type token or check holding means; and particularly subclasses 45 and 72+ for similar devices lacking an article releasing or discharging feature which characterizes other article dispensing devices. See Lines With Other Classes and Within This Class, (4) Note, above.
406, Conveyors: Fluid Current, for pneumatic dispatching devices for transmitting money between a clerk and a cashier at a distance.
446, Amusement Devices: Toys,
8+, for money boxes having toy features.
463, Amusement Devices: Games, for a game device or apparatus combined with a device for dispensing articles, such as coins, checks, or tokens as rewards or prizes. 473, Games Using Tangible Projectile, for a game device or apparatus combined with a device for dispensing articles, such as coins, checks, or tokens as rewards or prizes.