Merchandising – Customer service – Banking
Patent
1994-11-18
1998-10-27
Bartuska, F. J.
Merchandising
Customer service
Banking
271 314, 271181, G06F 704
Patent
active
058266801
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to a system for automatically storing bills paid out in amusement facilities containing a large number of gaming machines, and in particular to a bill handling system for transporting bills received in gaming machine islands, in a gaming house containing the islands, where a number of gaming machines and game play media lending machines for lending game play media used with the gaming machines are placed side by side, to a sales cashbox installed in the gaming house for automatic storage.
TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
A conventional gaming house contains a number of game machine islands, each comprising a large number of gaming machines and game play media lending machines placed side by side. The gaming machine island means a group of a large number of gaming machines and game play media lending machines. The expression "islands" is derived from the fact that the machine groups are placed like islands in the gaming house.
In the gaming house, each island is provided with a stacker for temporarily storing bills paid out by players at the island. Bills received in the gaming machine island provided with the stacker are stored in the stacker. Personnel in the gaming house collect the bills stored in the stacker for each gaming machine island and carry the bills to a sales cashbox for storage.
However, such conventional art requires that personnel in the gaming house should collect bills each time the stacker installed in each gaming machine island fills with bills. Thus, if the gaming house contains a large number of gaming machine islands or sales are up, the conventional art involves a problem of a lot of time and labor required for collecting the bills.
Since a large amount of cash is taken out from the stackers and is carried around while the gaming house is open, there is the danger of bringing about crimes such as robbery.
Further, there is the danger that personnel in the gaming house who are collecting will steal the cash.
Bill collection by personnel in the gaming house makes players feel uncomfortable or players are disturbed by their movement, spoiling an atmosphere in the gaming house.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a bill handling system which can transport bills received in gaming machine islands to a sales cashbox for collection, rapidly and reliably without the intervention of human beings, and can prevent crimes from being brought about.
It is another object of the invention to provide a bill handling system which can eliminate the need for personnel in a gaming house to collect bills, thus creating a good atmosphere in the gaming house.
To these ends, according to one form of the invention, there is provided a bill handling system, in a gaming house containing a plurality of game play support machines each having a mechanism for taking in bills. The bill handling system comprises a cashbox having a mechanism for automatically storing bills and a collection system for gathering bills received in the machines and transporting the bills to the cashbox.
The collection system comprises one or more stackers for stacking the bills received in the support machines in order and temporarily holding the bills, and a bill transport mechanism for receiving the bills held in the stackers and transporting the bills to the cashbox.
According to another form of the invention, there is provided a bill handling system, for taking in bills sent from game play support machines, and discharging the bills to the outside of a gaming machine island. The bill handling system is installed in the gaming machine island made up of a plurality of gaming machines for players to play games and a plurality of game play support machines where players make payment required to play games on the gaming machines, each support machine having a mechanism for receiving the inserted bills for the payment. The system comprises an intra-island transport mechanism for transporting bills taken in the game play support machines one at a time and a stacker
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Kawashima Kazunari
Takemoto Takatoshi
Bartuska F. J.
Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken
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