Game play media lending machine, for which bank notes can be use

Details Game play media lending machine, for which bank notes can be use Game play media lending machine, for which bank notes can be use

1995-11-13

1998-02-10

Bartuska, F. J.

Check-actuated control mechanisms

Control mechanism actuated by check, other than coin , which...

By pliant currency

271 312, 271220, G07F 704, G07F 1738

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057159246

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD

This invention relates to a game play media lending machine used in a gaming house, such as a pachinko ball (Japanese pinball) hall, and in particular to a game play media lending machine capable of lending game play media to a player in response to the input of a large denomination bank note and moreover paying out change in small denomination bank notes.


TECHNICAL BACKGROUND

In a gaming house having gaming machines for a player to play a game with game play media, such as pachinko ball machines, the player needs to borrow game play media from the gaming house. A device used for this purpose is the game play media lending machine.
Generally, game play media lending machines are classified into those being responsive to an input bank note for dispensing as many game play media as the number of media determined for the amount of the bank note and those being responsive to the input of a large denomination bank note for dispensing as many game play media as the number of media determined for the specified amount by the player and also paying out change if necessary. In the latter game play media lending machines, if change is required, small denomination bank notes and/or coins prestored in the machine are paid out to the player as change.
However, when prestored bank notes and/or coins for change run out or are in short supply in the game play media lending machines having the change paying out capability, if a large denomination bank note is input, game play media cannot be lent until the machine is replenished with change. Thus, the machine often needs to be replenished with change. Also, since bank notes and coins are handled when the machine is replenished with change, there is a danger that the condition may give rise to crime.
Thus, hitherto, many gaming houses have had game play media lending machines allowing players to use only small denomination bank notes for which no change is required. However, since players cannot borrow game play media with a large denomination bank note from such gaming houses, they must endure the inconvenience to change bank notes of large denomination to small denomination whenever they wish to borrow game play media.
Since the dispensing units for lending game play media are fired to handle small denomination bank notes in the conventional machines, for the player to borrow game play media with a large denomination bank note, the gaming house pays out all the remaining amount of money as change. Thus, for the player to borrow game play media corresponding to a plurality of small denomination bank notes, he or she must input bank notes paid out as change into the game play media lending machine more than once.


DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION

It is a first object of the invention to provide a game play media lending machine capable of lending game play media to a player and paying out change in bank notes in response to the input of a large denomination bank note and moreover decreasing the time and labor expended for replenishing the machine with change.
It is a second object of the invention to provide a game play media lending machine capable of dispensing game play media successively more than once without paying out change when lending game play media in response to the input of a large denomination bank note.
To accomplish the first object, according to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a game play media lending machine for accepting a bank note input from the outside and lending game play media and if change is to be given, paying out a bank note as the change, the lending machine comprising: taking in an input bank note, determining at least the denomination of the bank note, and outputting information indicating acceptance of the bank note and amount information and a bank note return section for storing the bank note if it is a bank note that can be used for change and being responsive to a change paying out command for dispensing a necessary number of bank notes as change to the outside, using the stored bank notes; information indica

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