Check-actuated control mechanisms – Including value accumulator for plural checks
Patent
1995-08-04
1997-09-02
Bartuska, F. J.
Check-actuated control mechanisms
Including value accumulator for plural checks
221281, G07F 1732
Patent
active
056622040
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a money operated gaming machine comprising a box-like housing, a door pivoted on one side wall and able to be locked to same, such door bearing on an outer side thereof game areas and a design characterizing the game, a coin unit, arranged in the housing, and provided at least with a coin inlet, with a coin tester, with a coin distribution and guiding means, with coin stack tubes and with a coin counting and paying out means, rails attached to the side wall, located on the opening side of the door, of the housing, a carriage adapted to run on such rails, a frame held by such carriage, and holding means provided on such carriage for the individual modules constituted by the components of the coin unit.
Coin operated gaming machines are provided with guide devices for coins inserted in the coin slot to supply the coins to coin testing means, to stack the coins recognized as being genuine in coin stack tubes of a coin pay out means, to pass coin rejected by the coin stacking tubes when same overflows to a coin collecting container, to pass unidentified coins to a return plate and, in accordance with acknowledged winnings or with a demand made by the player, to cause coins to be paid out. Coin units for money operated gaming machines with the initially mentioned components must be compact in design in accordance with the desire for a small overall size and furthermore must be robust and tamper-proof. Furthermore as a result of the requirement for rational and low-price production and servicing it is desirable for the coin units to be simply and rapidly installed in a straightforward fashion in the money operated gaming machine, the individual components being readily accessible for the purpose of servicing and, if required, replacement, substitution thereof also being easy to perform.
One object of the invention is therefore to provide a money operated gaming machine of the type initially mentioned whose coin unit can be installed in the machine in a simple and straightforward fashion and after installation may be serviced in a simple manner because the individual components of the coin unit are readily accessible and readily replaced.
In accordance with the invention this object is to be achieved in the case of a money operated gaming machine of the type initially mentioned because on the inner side of the back wall of the frame a printed circuit board with U-like and knife-like limbs constituting electrical contacts is held, which on insertion into the frame of a module provided with electrical contact springs come into electrical contact with such contact springs.
In the case of the money operated gaming machine in accordance with the invention the individual components of the coin unit are arranged in a modular manner in a frame, which is held on a carriage so that such frame may be slid into the housing and for the sake of better accessibility may be furthermore be retracted from it. The individual components consist of modules, which in a manner similar to a modular set of parts, may be inserted in the frame and in a like fashion may be retracted therefrom. In this respect the holding means of the individual modules in the frame are so designed that same when inserted are necessarily located in their functional, cooperating position and the modules when completely inserted in the frame represent the operative coin unit. The possibility of easy assembly and of accessibility is ensured because the carriage, which holds the frame, may be drawn out and pushed back into place.
The individual modules may include sensors, control devices, circuitry and drives and the like, which must be supplied with electrical power or must be connected with electrical contacts of a printed circuit board secured to the frame. There is consequently an additional requirement for simple and rapid production of the corresponding electrical connections between the modules and the electrical contacts of a printed circuit board or the like. In accordance with a further development of the invention there is he
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patent: 3339995 (1967-09-01), Bencene
patent: 4374557 (1983-02-01), Sugimoto et al.
Heidersberger Borge
Menke Wilhelm
Bartuska F. J.
NSM Aktiengesellschaft
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