KPR INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

ME6612 – PROJECT WORK

AUTOMATIC SORTER OF INDIAN

COINS

SUPERVISOR MEMBER(S)
1. P.Vignesh (711316114162)
2. R.Vishnu (711316114165)
Mr. S.GOKULKUMAR
3. S.Sugi senani (711316114326)
Assistant professor
III BE Mech C
Batch No: 17
 ABSTRACT
• Coin sorter is a machine that separates mixed coins. Being a manual
process it lacks accuracy. The coin sorters which are currently available are
unable to sort coin of same diameter. In order to sort the coin of same
diameter, it is first sorted based on diameter and then by other parameters
such as thickness and weight. It is more economical and fast process with
nearly accurate. This was done to be able to help different Institutions that
deal with large number of coins in their daily operation. Some of these are
banks, churches, charitable institutions and the transport sector. The
sorting part of the design is basically mechanical as it sorts the coins
through their physical size. After performing some tests with the Coin
Sorting and Counting Machine, the group could say that an almost accurate
and reliable machine was created as manifested by the results it made.
• Keywords: Indian coins, sorting, counting.
 INTRODUCTION

• Counting of coins is a tedious task when coin collections are large. Say
for example, in Banks, Temples, bus depots, shops, etc., they are
spending a lot of time and strain for counting their collections.

• Usually the method they are adopting is first to separate the coins in
each denomination and then count the total in each denomination.
Finally the totals of each denomination are added to get the grand
total. From this we can understand that separating into
denominations is a tedious work.
MATERIALS AND METHODS

S.NO MATERIALS QUANTITY

1 MDF Sheet As Required

2 DC Motor (12V) 1
3 Glue 1
4 Collecting boxes 3
5 Acrylic Sheet 1
6 Coins As Required
7 Cardboard As Required
8 Battery ( 9V) 6
 Parameters measured in coin

• Diameter
• Diameter of a coin is measured
using vernier caliper and the
readings are tabulated

• Thickness
• The maximum thicknesses of the coins were measured using a vernier
caliper with a least count of 0.01 mm and the values noted in table

• Weight
• The weight of each coin has been determined using an electronic weighing
machine having readability up to 0.0981 N.
PARAMETERS OF COINS
 PROTOTYPE
A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process or to act as a
thing to be replicated or learned from. A prototype is designed to test and try a new design to enhance precision by
system analysts and users. Prototyping serves to provide specifications for a real, working system rather than a
theoretical one.
 WORKING PRINCIPLE
In this project we designed a coin separator. It separates the coins in
various trays. The operation of coin separator is performed by motor
coin separator tray arrangement. Coins can be placed at the top of the
collected tray. When the motor is switched on, the coin tray will get
vibrated by a vibrational setup and move to a coin separator tray. It has
different diameters of holes in it. The trays are coupled with the
connecting rod to the coin tray. To reduce the vibration in the coin tray
and reduce the separation spring setup has been used. Hence the coin
tray is placed on the top. When the motor is on the coin tray gets
vibrated and falls on to the coin separator tray. Since there are several
holes in the tray the coins are separated and collected in the
appropriate tray. The minimum size is collected in the first tray and the
maximum size will be collected in the last tray. The collected coins in
each rack will be counted by using Infrared sensor.
 COST OF THE PROJECT

S.N ITEM DESCRIPTION RATE/UNI QUANTITY TOTAL COST

O T
1 MEDIUM DENSITY 200 4 800
FIBREBOARD (2 sq ft)

2 ACRYLIC SHEET(2sq ft) 300 1 300

3 Dc MOTOR (12V) 190 1 190

4 BATTERY(9V) 25 6 150

5 GLUE 50 4 200
 MERITS AND DEMERITS

MERITS
• Simple construction
• It is portable
• It can be transferred easily from one place to another place
• Maintenance cost is low
DEMERITS
• Noisy operation
 CONCLUSION
Hence this project carried out by us made an impressing task in the money
transition place and cash counting. It uses simple technique in sorting of
Indian coins and very useful for the workers to carry out the number of
operations in a single machine. This project has also reduced the cost
involved in the concern .Project has been designed to perform the entire
requirement task which has also been provided. The project is portable and
can be improvised according to the release of new coins by government, by
extending the sliding bar and providing diametrical slot respective to the
coin.
This project has also reduced the weight, hence light material is used when
compared to previous designs, for the future design it can be developed to
sort and also to count the coins. Hence this machine can be widely used.
 REFERENCE
• Method and apparatus for currency Discrimination and counting by
raterman,et al., Cummins-Allison Corp.(March 2010)
• Liying DING: Design of Intelligent Counting System. Metrology and
Measurement Technique. No. 2 (2004), pp.31-32. In Chinese.
• Anija KP, kavya Madhusoodhanan, Afna mamu “Recognition of indian
Currency and Denomination of Coin”. International journal for
scientific Research & Development. 2016 ;4(1); 843-846p.
• Indian coins. Website link
https://www.researchgate.net/deref/http%3A%2F%2Fcointypes.info
%2Findia%2Find1r.html