Coin handling – Deliverer – Rotary
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-04
2002-05-07
Walsh, Donald P. (Department: 3653)
Coin handling
Deliverer
Rotary
C194S352000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06383070
ABSTRACT:
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a coin-sending device which is applied in various types of game machines (such as a “pachinko” type of slot machine called or romanized as “Patisuro” and having rotatable reels, and the conventional slot machines and pachinko machines, etc.), various vending machines provided everywhere, automatic money-transfer machines and coin-discrimination machines used for example in banks, or the like, so that coins (including special metal discs called “medals” and usual coins usable for those machines) inserted in a lump in the machines are each sent one by one sequentially to a predetermined process.
2. Prior Art
A most typical and normal type of coin slot J of the pachinko type of slot machine P is, as disclosed in Examined Japanese Patent Application No. Hei 6-73563 (1994) and as shown in
FIG. 40
annexed hereto, provided in the form of a slit-shaped opening into which each of coins M can be put one by one, so that players place coins into the slot one by one by their hands. Inserting coins one by one is troublesome for the players. But coins inserted are received by the machine one by one sequentially and sent to the further stages. Thus, a coin-separation (or discrimination) device S
1
for determining true and false coins may be provided purposively at a point on an initial stage in the coin-sending course corresponding to the direction of the pull of gravity and above the coin-payout hopper H.
To mitigate the trouble of players inserting coins one by one, some machines recently given attention use a wide tray W for inserting coins in a lump, so that players can place a number of coins M all together into the machine at a time. The lump-insertion tray W exemplified in
FIG. 40
showing the aforesaid Japanese publication is used jointly together with the coin slot J that is for inserting coins one by one. Coins M inserted in a lump from the wide tray W need to be first lined and sent one by one sequentially by a coin-sending device F, which provided below the wide tray W in the direction of the pull of gravity, to a coin-separation (or discrimination) device S
2
disposed under the coin-sending device F in the direction of the pull of gravity and above the coin-payout hopper H.
In
FIG. 40
, K designates a panel for the rotatable reels, R a switches-mounting part, S a control switch for driving the coin-sending device, O a coin payout/return opening, E a payout tray, and N
1
a coin-sensor disposed under the coin slot J (one-by-one insertion) and N
2
a coin-sensor on a coin-passage extended from the coin-sending device F.
In the feature having the lump-insertion tray W, the coin-sending device F is to be additionally provided with respect to the coin-separation device S
2
. An additional space for installation of the device is to be given or held in the direction of height correspondingly to a drop or fall between the coin-inlet and coin-outlet on the coin-sending device. Hence, the resulting problem is that the lump-insertion tray W is to be formed higher in position than the coin slot J, i.e., at the upper part of the reels panel K. This is because receiving, paying out and separating coins are performed by use of gravity and a drop or fall from the inlet of the coin-insertion part W to the coin-payout hopper H is to be fully ensured so as to enable coins to sequentially flow smoothly in the machine from the upper part to the lower part. Hence, it is not easy but troublesome for players sitting on the seats in front of the game machines to place coins in the lump-insertion tray W, and this countermeasure for mitigating the trouble of players inserting coins one by one becomes useless or futile.
It is possible to provide the lump-insertion tray W at the same height as the coin slot J that is for inserting coins one by one, as shown in Unexamined Japanese Patent Application No. Hei 2-57284 (1990). In this case, a drop from the lump-insertion tray W to the coin-payout hopper H cannot be sufficiently obtained, leading to such separate problems that the coin-passage is stopped up or jammed by coins and a coin-reservoir bucket in the coin-payout hopper H is to be reduced in size.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide a coin-sending device wherein a height difference between an inlet and an outlet of a mechanism for sending coins (inserted in a lump) one by one sequentialy can be made smaller and limitation of usable spaces for installing the device to various equipments and apparatuses can be mitigated.
The invention disclosed in claim
1
is directed to a coin-sending device provided with a rotary disc C
3
for sequentially sending to a second-side passage C
2
coins received from a coins-lump insertion part into a first-side reservoir C
1
, wherein the rotary disc C
3
is set in a posture of slanted forwards downwards with the first-side reservoir C
1
facing the coins-lump insertion part, and an outlet C
202
of the second-side passage C
2
is open at a part slanted backwards upwards, as exemplified in
FIG. 17
, in order to achieve the aforesaid object.
The invention disclosed in claim
2
does, for making further smaller the sizes in the direction of height and enabling ensured discriminating true and false coins, provide a coin-separation part C
4
on an uphill C
204
on the second-side passage, which coin-separation part C
4
discriminates true and false coins and causes false coins to be removed from the coin-passage, as shown in
FIGS. 18 and 21
.
The invention disclosed in claim
3
does, for further improving discrimitating process by the coin-separation part C
4
, provide at an inlet of the coin-separation part C
4
a behaviour stabilization means C
5
for stabilizing behaviour of coins entering the coin-separation part C
4
, as shown in FIG.
28
.
The invention disclosed in claim
4
does, for excellently correcting an over-storing state of coins in the first-side reservoir C
1
, provide above the first-side reservoir C
1
an overflow guide C
6
for causing excessively stored coins to overflow to the front side slanted forwards downwards, as shown in FIG.
17
.
The invention disclosed in claim
5
does, for smoothly discharging the overflowed coins, cause an outlet of the overflow guide C
6
to communicate with a most upstream side of a cancel chute
92
communicating a coin-return opening as shown in FIG.
17
.
The invention disclosed in claim
6
does, for making excellent the discharging structure for false coins, provide a removal passage C
40
for false coins discriminated by the coin-separation part C
4
which removal passage C
40
extends forwards along the back of the rotary disc C
3
as shown in FIG.
17
.
The invention disclosed in claim
7
does, for economically structuring a discharging system for false coins, cause the removal passage C
40
to communicate with an intermediate part of the cancel chute
92
communicating the coin-return opening as shown in FIG.
17
.
The invention disclosed in claim
8
does, for enabling users to grasp from the outside the state of storing coins, provide at the side of the coins-lump insertion part A an observation window
93
for enabling observing the inside of the first-side reservoir C
1
as shown in FIG.
3
.
The invention disclosed in claim
9
does, for enabling users to precisely grasp from the outside the state of storing coins, provide a mirror C
7
for enabling users to watch through the observation window
93
a blind spot in the first-side reservoir C
1
as shown in FIG.
3
.
The invention disclosed in claim
10
does, for changing the state of coins stored in the first-side reservoir C
1
to allow coins to be smoothly taken to the rotary disc C
3
provide at the first-side reservoir C
1
an assist means C
8
which interferes coins in the first-side reservoir C
1
to assist coins for their being taken to the rotary disc C
3
, as shown in
FIGS. 17 and 23
.
The invention disclosed in claim
11
does, for making excellent the assist means C
8
, employ the assist means C
Aruze Co. Ltd.
Bacon & Thomas PLLC
Beauchaine Mark J.
Walsh Donald P.
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