Check-actuated control mechanisms – Control mechanism actuated by check – other than coin – which... – By pliant currency
Patent
1994-04-08
1996-10-01
Bartuska, F. J.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
Control mechanism actuated by check, other than coin , which...
By pliant currency
209534, 271185, 271251, G07F 704
Patent
active
055604676
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to an exchange machine which is disposed and is preferably used in a game parlor and in particular to an exchange machine which accepts bank notes recovered from game media lending machines disposed in a game parlor and enables the accepted bank notes to be used for exchange.
BACKGROUND TECHNOLOGY
A plurality of game machines and game media lending machines for lending game media used in the games are disposed in the game parlors. Specifically, the game machines and game media lending machines coexist and are grouped into rows of game machines.
Such rows of game machines are referred to as "game machine islands". The game media include, for example, metal balls, medals and the like.
These game machine islands are provided with bank note recovering machines for recovering bank notes which are inserted into game media lending machines in islands. The bank note recovering machines are adapted to accept the bank notes from each game media lending machine and to pass them to a common conveying line and finally to collect the bank notes at a given place in an island.
At least one exchange machine is disposed in each game machine island. The exchange machine is used to exchange bank notes or coins with bank notes which may be paid for lending of the game media in the above mentioned game media lending machine. In the exchange machine, the bank notes which are recovered by the bank note recovering machines are reused for exchange.
The bank notes which are recovered by the bank note recovering machine have heretofore been manually inserted into an exchange machine by clerks of the parlor. The bank notes inserted into the exchange machine are dispensed, when a player exchanges money, for being inserted into the game media lending machine. This causes the bank notes to be returned to the exchange machine. In other words, the bank notes are circulated between the game media lending machine and the exchange machines.
Repetition of such circulations causes the bank notes to be damaged, for example, wrinkled or partially torn. Damaged bank notes causes jamming of the bank notes in a circulation path. Accordingly, it is necessary to examine whether or not the bank note which is recovered by the bank note recovering machine is damaged.
Some of the bank notes are folded. Although folding per se is not damage to the bank note, it will be regarded as damage since it will cause jamming similarly to actual damage.
Such examination as to whether or not the bank notes are damaged has heretofore been made by clerks inspecting the condition of the bank notes one by one, for example, by sight or touch.
Accordingly, it takes an extended period of time and much labor to examine bank notes, and loading of qualified bank notes into an exchange machine one by one is troublesome work.
Since the damage conditions of the bank notes are determined manually, variations in examination results are liable to occur among individuals. Variations in determination will cause jamming to easily occur, or impair efficient circulation and use of the bank notes.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
It is a first object of the present invention to provide an exchange machine in which bank notes are prevented from jamming due to damage thereof by automatically detecting the damaged bank note and removing it.
It is a second object of the present invention to provide a bank note conveying device which is capable of precisely performing orientation of posture and positioning of a bank note so that a damaged bank note can be properly detected.
It is a third object of the present invention to provide a bank note qualification identifying device which is capable of automatically detecting damage of bank notes without manual working in the exchange machine.
In order to accomplish the first object of the present invention, in a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an exchange machine which uses externally accepted bank notes for exchange in which the machine comprises condition of an accepted bank note; e
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Aoki Ren
Ito Eiji
Kano Noriaki
Murakami Koji
Obara Hiroyasu
Bartuska F. J.
Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken
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