Check-actuated control mechanisms – With means responsive to malfunction
Patent
1997-03-21
1999-06-22
Bartuska, F. J.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
With means responsive to malfunction
221 21, 453 17, G07F 1734
Patent
active
059133996
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FELD
This invention relates to a gaming facility having a coin game machine group where a plurality of coin game machines are placed and a coin handling mechanism for supplying and collecting coins to and from the coin game machines, and in particular to an improved coin handling mechanism and a gaming facility equipped with the improved coin handling mechanism
RELATED ART
If a given condition is satisfied at a coin game machine for a player to play games with coins, such as a slot machine, namely, the player wins a game, a given quantity of coins are paid out to the player for the winning game play. Thus, the coin game machine of this kind needs to store coins to be paid out for winning game plays and coins input to the gaming machine for playing games. Thus, conventional coin game machines comprise tanks for storing coins.
Incidentally, if such a conventional coin game machine becomes short of coins, personnel replenish the coin game machine with coins. If coins overflow the tank, personnel collect the coins. However, a problem is that personnel replenishing the gaming machine with coins and collecting the coins therefrom incurs expense in effort. If the gaming machine becomes short of coins or coins overflow the tank while a player is playing a game, the game played at the gaming machine must be interrupted to replenish or collect coins.
For this reason, a system for automatically replenishing a plurality of coin game machines with coins and collecting coins therefrom is proposed. Examples of such a system are disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 55-166286 (corresponding U.S. patent: U.S. Pat. No. 4,342,384) and Japanese Patent Publication No. 62-31392.
In the arts disclosed here, a tank for storing coins is provided for each slot machine and coins input to the slot machine can be guided into the tank for circulation. If excessive coins are stored in the tank, the coins input to the slot machine are guided into a collection conveyor by switching a switch and are stored in a collection tank common to the slot machines. If the tank of any slot machine becomes short of coins, it is replenished with coins from the common collection tank through a transporter.
However, according to the prior art, a switch is required for diverting input coins from the tank to the collection conveyor or from the collection conveyor to the tank, increasing the cost of the system accordingly, and there is a fear that a coin jam will occur at the switch.
To recycle input coins in the same slot machine, a guide passage is required for guiding the coins into the tank of the slot machine, complicating the structure and requiring extra parts, leading to an increase in manufacturing costs.
Further, in the conventional replenishment mechanism, coins are replenished or collected simply depending on an excess or shortage of coins detected by a sensor. That is, sufficient management of the coins in quantities such as the number of replenished coins, the number of paid-out coins, and the number of input and collected coins was not done.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
It is an object of the invention to provide a coin handling mechanism having a structure as simple as possible, for reducing a cost and making it difficult for a coin jam to occur, and capable of executing number-of-coins management for actually handled coins, as well as a gaming facility having the coin handling mechanism.
To accomplish the object, according to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided coin handling mechanism being placed in a gaming house having at least one coin game machine group containing a plurality of coin game machines for supplying coins to the coin game machines belonging to the coin game machine group and collecting coins from the coin game machines, the coin handling mechanism comprising: in each coin game machine and transporting and collecting the coins; game machines belonging to the coin game machine group are replenished; supplying coins to the coin replenishment transporter; coin game machines for making coin
REFERENCES:
patent: 4342384 (1982-08-01), Fukase et al.
Kadomatsu Hideyuki
Manzaki Yukio
Takemoto Takatoshi
Bartuska F. J.
Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken
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