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Details
Inventors: Watts, Gary P.; Mazur, Richard A.; Weggesser, John F.;
Assignee: Cummins-Allison Corp. (Mt. Prospect, IL)
Primary Examiner: Grant; William
Assistant Examiner: Rapp; Chad
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Arnold White & Durkee

An apparatus and method for loading software changes into a processor-based coin wrapping machine. In one embodiment, a flash card having a memory remotely programmed with a second software code is adapted to be removably electrically coupled to the system controller of the coin wrapping machine. Insertion of the flash card causes the initial code in the resident memory of the machine to become erased and replaced with the second software code. The flash card may thereafter be removed from the machine and used to load software changes into other machines. In an alternative embodiment, the flash card may remain electrically coupled to the coin wrapping machine. In this embodiment, insertion of the flash card causes the machine to execute the second software code, but the initial code is not erased or replaced. Upon removal of the flash card, the machine does not retain the second software code but will revert to execution of the initial code. In either embodiment, remote programming of the flash card with the second software code may be achieved by electrically coupling the flash card to a first coin wrapping machine having a resident memory containing the second software code, causing the second software code to be copied from the resident memory of the first coin wrapping machine to the flash card memory.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a coin wrapping system including a coin wrapping mechanism for forming a coin stack containing a predetermined number of coins of a preselected denomination and wrapping a wrapping material about the coin stack to form a wrapped roll of coins.
A system controller which is operable in a plurality of operating modes is coupled to the coin wrapping mechanism.
An operator interface panel is coupled to the system controller.
The operator interface panel includes a touch screen display for displaying data and sets of keys associated with operation of the coin wrapping system in respective ones of the operating modes.
A resident memory is coupled to the system controller which contains a first version of control software to be executed by the system controller.
A flash card having a flash card memory containing a second version of control software to be executed by the system controller is adapted to be removably electrically coupled to the coin wrapper.
The resident memory erases the first version of control software and stores the second version of control software in response to the flash card being electrically coupled to the coin wrapper.
The resident memory thereafter retains the second version of control software after the flash card is removed from the coin sorter.
In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a coin wrapping machine including a coin wrapping mechanism, system controller and operator interface panel substantially as described above, further including a resident flash memory coupled to the system controller.
Control software to be executed by the system controller includes customized display settings of the touch screen display associated with one or more of the operating modes of the coin wrapping machine.
A flash card having a flash card memory is removably inserted into a socket which is electrically coupled to the resident flash memory of the coin wrapping machine


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