JP2001070605A - Bill exchanger for game island - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To store bills discharged out of a game medium lending machine into a bill handing device provided adjacently thereto and use the stored bills as exchanging bills. SOLUTION: This bill exchanger comprises a bill handling device 10 which consists of a carrier 30 for carrying frontward charged bills to be discharged from a game medium lending machine to the back side thereof in rising conditions after turned around as they are in rising conditions, a stacking holder 90 for holding the bills carried by the carrier in the state of being stacked and thrust in the direction of their thickness as they are in rising conditions, and a deliverer for delivering the bills in the stacking holder as exchanging bills in front thereof as they are in rising conditions, and a bill identifying device provided on an upper end plate of the game medium lending machine and the bill handling device, having an acceptable bill charge port in front thereof for reading identification information for accepted bills and outputting money information and having a storage portion for storing the accepted bills.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a game machine including a plurality of gaming machines such as slot machines and pachinko machines.
The present invention relates to an apparatus for storing bills inserted into a game medium lending machine in a game island and dispensing the bills as exchange bills.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a game store of this kind, for example, a pachinko store, a so-called game island (pachinko island) in which a plurality of game machines (pachinko machines) are installed in a straight line in a horizontal direction. In the gaming island, a gaming media lending machine (ball lending machine) is provided between two adjacent gaming machines, and the bills inserted into each gaming media lending machine are conventionally provided on the back of the gaming machine. Is transported to and stored in the storage provided at the end of the game island or the like by the banknote transporting device provided in the game. And this bill is used as a currency exchange bill (a 1,000 yen bill) of a 5,000 yen or a 10,000 yen bill.

[0003]

However, in such a system in which the bills from all the game medium renting machines in the gaming island are transported by one bill transporting device, the bill transporting device becomes a large-scale device and the cost increases. Becomes In addition, a great deal of labor and time are required for construction.
Further, when a trouble such as a banknote jam occurs in the bill conveying device, there is a problem that all the game media lending machines on the game island cannot be used until the trouble is solved.

In a pachinko game machine, the pachinko machine can be opened to the front side, so that the bill transfer device installed on the back side of the pachinko machine can be inspected, but a game machine such as a slot machine opens the machine. Due to the box structure that cannot be operated, there is a problem that inspection cannot be performed even if a trouble occurs in the bill transport device provided on the back side.

[0005] Further, when a game medium such as a pachinko ball or a medal becomes necessary in the middle of a game and the banknotes necessary for lending are used up, the seats are stood one by one and installed on the island end. There was a problem that I had to go to a currency exchange machine. An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote change machine at a gaming island that has solved such a problem.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a bill exchange apparatus for a game island provided between two adjacent game machines on a game island. A bill exchange device for a gaming island that stores bills discharged from the back of the game media lending machine and pays out as a currency exchange bill, wherein the back of the game media lending machine and the game media lending machine and one of the gaming machines are provided. Is provided over the unused space portion provided between the game media lending machine and the U-turn of the inserted bill discharged from the game media lending machine to the back side of the game media lending machine in the upright state in the unused space portion. A transport device for transporting toward the front, and provided in the unused space portion,
A stack holding device that holds the bills conveyed by the conveying device in a stacked state in a thickness direction in an upright state and holds the bills in a pressed state, and a dispensing device that pays out the bills in the stack holding device in a standing state on the front side as exchange bills. And a bill handling device provided with a game media lending machine and a bill handling device provided on an upper curtain plate portion of the bill handling device. And a bill discriminating apparatus having a storage unit for outputting information and storing the received bills.

[0007] That is, in a gaming island, a vertically thin game media lending machine is provided between two adjacent gaming machines for receiving bills in an upright state and discharging the bills in the upright state. In order not to make the users of the gaming machine feel cramped,
Two adjacent units are provided between this game media lending machine and one (for example, the left side) of gaming machines by providing an unused space portion (the front side is covered with a decorative plate) having a width similar to that of the game media lending machine. There is room in the spacing between gaming machines.

The present invention utilizes the unused space between the game media lending machine and one of the gaming machines to transfer bills discharged from the back of the game media lending machine in an upright state to the unused space. Instead of transporting and accumulating the bills from each of the game medium lending machines by making a U-turn while standing in the front direction and holding the bills stacked and pressed in the unused space portion by one bill transport device. In addition, each game media lending machine is transported and accumulated in an unused space that has not been used conventionally.

For this reason, a large-scale bill transporting device (system) for transporting bills on the entire game island can be omitted, thereby reducing costs and making it impossible to open forwards like a slot machine. Even in a gaming island equipped with a box-type gaming machine, since the system for transporting the entire bill is not used, bills are stored for each gaming medium lending machine of the gaming machine, so that a conventional gaming island is used. Problems such as the inability to use the entire game media rental machine are eliminated.

[0010] In addition, according to the present invention, since the accumulated bills are used as exchange bills, more effective use can be achieved and high-value bills can be exchanged.
This eliminates the problem that the player has to take his / her seat and go to the currency exchange machine installed on the island end as in the past.

Further, the same effect as described above can be obtained even if the exchanged banknotes are stored in the banknote handling apparatus in a standing state in advance.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIGS. 15 and 16, a plurality of gaming machines (for example, slot machines) fixed by an upper frame plate 2 and a lower frame plate 3 that constitute the gaming island 1 are provided on the gaming island 1.
Are arranged in a straight line with both sides surrounded by vertical plates 5a and 5b, respectively.

A vertically long and thin game medium lending machine (for example, a medal lending machine for a slot machine) 6 is provided with one (right) vertical plate 5 between every two adjacent gaming machines 4 and 4.
It is provided so as to be in contact with a and to be able to be taken out.

On the front plate 6a of the game medium lending machine 6, bills M
Is provided with a vertical bill insertion slot 7 for inserting a bill in the longitudinal direction in a standing state, the inserted bill M is determined, and in the case of a genuine bill, a game medium (medal for a slot machine)
Is discharged, and the banknote M is discharged from the rear discharge port 8 to the rear side in the upright state.

The game media lending machine 6 and one (left side)
Conventionally, an unused space A having a width similar to that of the gaming media rental machine 6 is provided between the gaming machine 4 and the conventional gaming machine 4 so as to prevent the users of the two adjacent gaming machines 4 and 4 from feeling cramped. And the front surface thereof is covered with a decorative plate 9.

In the unused space A, a decorative panel 9 on the front side is provided.
, The bill handling apparatus 10 of the present invention is installed so as to be able to be taken out, and the bill discriminating apparatus 190 described later constitutes the bill exchange apparatus 400 of the game island of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the bill handling apparatus 10
It has an almost box-shaped unit structure with a vertically long and thin shape that can be stored in the unused space part A,
A bill receiving portion 11 that protrudes from the back side of the gaming medium lending machine 6 is provided.

That is, the bill handling apparatus 10 includes a unit case board 12 as shown in FIG. The unit case substrate 12 is formed by stamping and bending a metal flat plate, the height is slightly smaller than the height of the unused space portion A, and the depth of the upper portion is almost equal to the depth of the unused space portion A, A vertical substrate 13 having a small depth at a lower portion, and a bottom plate 14 which is bent in a horizontal direction at a front lower end portion of the vertical substrate 13 and has a width slightly smaller than an interval between the game medium renting machine 6 and one of the vertical plates 5b. An inner back plate 15 bent at a right angle from an upper end of the upper part of the vertical substrate 13 and having a width slightly smaller than a space between the two vertical plates 5a and 5b of the unused space portion A;
An upper plate 16 that is bent in the horizontal direction from the upper end of the vertical substrate 13 is provided. The back of the upper plate 16 is
The width has become wider in response to

The bottom plate 14 is provided with a hole 14a for screwing it to the lower frame plate 3 of the unused space A. The bottom plate 14 is vertically bent at the front end and the rear end in the width direction. Edge plates 14b, 14c, and 14d are provided, and a horizontal plate 17 facing the bottom plate 14 is horizontally fixed to the upper end of the width sandwiching portion 13a of the vertical substrate 13. This horizontal plate 17 also has edge plates 17b, 17 like the bottom plate 14.
c and 17d are protruded in the vertical direction. The screw hole of the edge plate 17c of the horizontal plate 17 and the edge plate 14c of the bottom plate 14
The L-shaped case plate 18 is screwed and mounted in the screw hole of (1). Also, the width sandwiching portion 13a of the vertical substrate 13
A control board B for controlling the operations of transporting and stacking the bills is fixed to the lower end of the control board B.

A U-shaped fixing bracket 20 is fixed to the upper surface of the front end of the upper plate 16 of the unit case substrate 12. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 5, the fixing bracket 20 includes two vertical pieces 22 and 23 parallel to the bottom plate 21, and a wide notch 22 a is provided at the center of the front vertical piece 22. ,
A screw insertion hole 23a is provided at the center of the vertical piece 23 on the back side.

As shown in FIGS. 2, 6, and 8, inside the back plate 15 of the unit case substrate 12, a bill M discharged from the outlet 8 on the back of the game medium lending machine 6 in a standing state is received. The U-turn is made in a semicircular shape while standing up, and a straight line is directed toward the front side toward the unused space A on the left side of the game medium lending machine 6 (that is, the direction parallel to the vertical substrate 13 and the game medium lending machine 6).
Is provided.

That is, horizontal frames 31, 32 are fixed to the inner wall of the back plate 15 in two upper and lower stages, and as shown in FIG.
A plurality of passage forming bodies 34a, 34b, 34c formed of plastics for forming 3 are fixed (FIG. 6).

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 8, the outer passage forming body 34a includes a horizontal upper wall 35, a lower wall 36, and a vertical front wall 3.
7, a rear wall 38 and a vertical guide wall 39 are provided.

The passage forming member 34c on the vertical substrate 13 side
Is provided with a horizontal upper wall 40, a lower wall 41, a vertical front wall 42, a rear wall 43, and a guide wall 44 partially vertical.

The central passage forming body 34b includes a horizontal upper wall 45, a lower wall 46, a vertical front wall 47, and a vertical, rear half semicircular and partially straight guide wall 48. I have.

As shown in FIG. 6, the right outside passage forming body 3
Between the inner surface of the guide wall 39 of 4a and the outer surface of the guide wall 48 of the central passage forming body 34b, the outlet 8 of the game medium lending machine 6 is provided.
The receiving passage portion 33a, which is wider at the entrance side for receiving the banknote M in the upright state discharged from the housing, has a circumferential portion 1a.
An arc-shaped passage portion 33b having a constant width of about ４ is formed, and further, between the inner surface of the guide wall 44 of the left outer passage formation member 34c and the outer surface of the guide wall 48 of the central passage formation member 34b. An arc-shaped passage portion 33c having the same width of about 1/4 of the circumference continuous with the arc-shaped passage portion 33b and an arc-shaped passage portion 33c in a linear direction parallel to the vertical board 13 of the unit case board 12 are connected. A straight passage portion 33d is formed.

The central passage forming body 34b is a hollow body, and two horizontal slits 50, 50 are formed in the guide wall 48 and the front wall 47 in the upper and lower two stages. The arcuate passages 33b, 33c, the straight passage 33d, The front wall 47 is provided over the passage forming body 34c side.

A drive shaft 51 is vertically rotatably mounted on the passage forming member 34b so as to pass through the semicircular center of the passage forming member 43b. In the drive shaft 51, the upper and lower slits 50, 50 are provided with the arc-shaped passage portion 33.
b and the drive pulley 5 so as to face the arc-shaped passage portion 33c.
2, 52 are fixed.

The drive shaft 51 extends downward from a hole in the lower horizontal frame 32, and a gear 53 is fixed to the lower end thereof.

As shown in FIG. 2, a motor 54 is fixed to the lower surface of the horizontal frame 32, and the rotation of the motor 54 is transmitted from the reduction gear 55 to the drive shaft 51 via the gear 53.

On the side of the passage forming body 34c of the front wall 47 of the passage forming body 34b, a projection 61 having a vertical shaft hole 60 parallel to the drive shaft 51 is provided between the upper and lower slits 50, 50 in a protruding manner. (FIG. 7), and driven pulleys are positioned at the upper and lower two-stage slits 50, 50 at both ends of a shaft 62 rotatably mounted in the shaft hole 60 and face the linear passage portion 33d. 63, 63 are attached.

Conveying belts 64, 64 are provided between the driving pulleys 52, 52 and the driven pulleys 63, 63 in the upper and lower stages, respectively.
The arc-shaped passage portion 33 is formed from the upper and lower slits 50, 50.
b, it is bridged so as to face the arc-shaped passage portion 33c and the straight passage portion 33d.

The projection 61 is provided with a locking arm 61b for locking an end portion of a pressing guide body 130 which will be described later, on the side opposite to the passage forming body 34c.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 8, the passage forming member 34a
In the end portion of the receiving passage portion 33a, holes 65, 65 are provided in two upper and lower stages so as to face the upper and lower slits 50, 50. In these holes 65, 65, two upper and lower holes are provided. Pressing rollers 66, 66 are provided. The two pressing rollers 66 are pressed by a pressing spring 67 and are pressed against the transport belts 64.

The passage forming body 34c has two upper and lower slits 50, 5 at the end of the arc-shaped passage 33c.
Holes 68, 68 are provided in two upper and lower stages so as to face 0, and in these holes 68, 68, pressure contact rollers 69, 69 are provided in two upper and lower stages. These two pressing rollers 6
9 and 69 are pressed by the pressing spring 70 and pressed against the transport belts 64 and 64.

Further, the guide wall 44 of the passage forming body 34c extends from the front wall 42 of the passage forming body 34c toward the passage forming body 34b.
Over the front end of the upper and lower two slits 50, 50
Are provided at upper and lower two stages at positions corresponding to. In the holes 71, 71, delivery rollers (pressing rollers) 72, 72 are provided so as to be pressed against the conveying belts 64, 64 by the driven pulleys 63, 63 in two upper and lower stages.

As shown in FIG. 9, both ends of the shaft 72a of each delivery roller 72 have a predetermined length in a direction parallel to the straight passage portion 33d of the two support pieces 73a at the ends of the elastic arm 73. It is slidably fitted in the hole 74.

In the receiving passage portion 33a, the guide wall 39 of the passage forming body 34a and the guide wall 4 of the passage forming body 34b are formed.
8 are provided with holes 80 and 81 at opposing positions, and a pair of light projectors 8 are provided on the inner walls of the curved guide wall 39 and the guide wall 48, respectively.
2a and a light receiver 82b are provided (FIG. 6).

For this reason, the bill M sent out in the longitudinal direction from the discharge port 8 on the back of the game medium lending machine 6 while standing up.
Enters the receiving passage portion 33a, and the light
a, when the light between the light receiver 82b is blocked, a bill detection signal from the light receiver 82b is sent to the control board B, and a drive signal of the motor 54 is output from the control board B, so that the drive pulley 5
2 rotates counterclockwise to drive the conveyor belt 64. Therefore, the transport belt 64 in contact with the drive pulley 52
The bill M is sandwiched between the pressure roller 66 and the pressing roller 66, and is conveyed in an arc-shaped passage portion 33b in an arc shape.
c, is conveyed in an arc shape, is nipped by the conveying belt 64 in contact with the driving pulley 52 and the pressing roller 69, is further conveyed in a straight line through the linear passage portion 33b, and finally conveys in contact with the driven pulley 63. The bill M is sandwiched between the belt 64 and the delivery roller 72 at the exit, and is delivered straight in a standing state.

In the straight passage portion 33d, the guide wall 44 of the passage forming body 34c and the guide wall 4 of the passage forming body 34b are formed.
8 are provided with holes 83 and 84 at opposing positions, and a pair of light emitters 85 are provided on inner walls of the guide wall 39 and the guide wall 48, respectively.
a, a light receiver 85b is provided.

For this reason, the tip of the bill M is
5a, when the light between the light receiver 85b is blocked,
b is sent to the control board B, and a drive signal to the motor 54 for driving the take-in rotator 95 described later is output from the control board B for a predetermined time. Return to the light receiving state by passing through the
The passage detection signal is output from 5b, and after a predetermined time, the driving of the motor 54 for driving the driving pulley 63 is stopped, and the driving of the motor 105 for driving the take-in rotating body 95 described later is also stopped.

A stack holding device 90 for holding the bills M sent from the transport device 30 in a stacked and pressed state.
Are fixed to the vertical substrate 13 of the unit case substrate 12 in front of the transfer device 30.

That is, the inner wall of the vertical substrate 13 is
As shown in FIGS. 0 and 11, horizontal frames 91 and 92 are fixed in parallel to each other in two upper and lower stages having a width substantially equal to the upper plate 16 of the vertical substrate 13. The horizontal frames 91, 9
2 may be integrally formed with the frames 31 and 32, respectively.

Edge plates 91a, 9 bent vertically upward and downward at the front ends of the horizontal frames 91, 92, respectively.
2a, a rectangular support plate 94 having a bill outlet 93
Are fixed at both ends (FIG. 4).

The support plate 94 and the passage forming member 43c
Between the upper and lower two take-in rotators 95, 9
The shafts 96, 96 at both ends of the 5 are rotatably mounted in the horizontal direction and in parallel with the vertical substrate 13 as shown in FIGS.

As shown in FIG. 10, the take-in rotator 95 has a gradually increasing outer peripheral surface 9 whose sectional shape gradually increases over substantially 90 degrees in the circumferential direction around the axis 96, as shown in FIG.
5a, and the radius is substantially constant at the maximum over substantially 90 degrees following this, and inside the portion of the maximum constant radius, a bill end holding groove 97 having an open entrance side is formed along the axial direction. The outside of the groove 97 is an arc-shaped pressing portion 97a for pressing the bill M.

Therefore, the upper and lower take-up rotators 95, 95 are placed in a state in which the respective bill end holding grooves 97, 97 are vertically opposed to each other, and the upper and lower shafts 96, 96 are erected and the transport device 30 is upright.
When the paper money M sent out in parallel with the vertical substrate 13 and in the horizontal direction from the straight passage portion 33d is slightly closer to the vertical substrate 13 above and below the paper money M sent out by the transport device 30, the paper money M is sent out. The upper and lower ends (both ends in the width direction, not in the longitudinal direction) are inserted into the upper and lower banknote end holding grooves 97, respectively, over the entire length in the longitudinal direction.

As shown in FIG. 11, gears 98, 98 having the same number of teeth are fixed to shafts 96, 96 of the upper and lower take-in rotators 95, 95 on the support plate 94 side.
98, four transmission gears 99a, 99b, 99 having the same number of teeth rotatably meshed with the support plate 94.
c, 99d are attached. The upper and lower transmission gears 99, 99 of the four gears are upper and lower gears 98, 98, respectively.
And are engaged.

The gear 98 of the lower intake rotator 95 is provided with a gear 10 rotatably mounted on a support plate 94 via a gear 100a below the horizontal frame 92.
0 is engaged.

These gears are held between the support plate 94 and a gear cover 101 mounted on the support plate 94.

A motor 105 for driving the take-in rotary body is mounted on the lower surface of the lower horizontal frame 92. The coupled rotating body 106a of the drive shaft 106 of the motor 105 can be detachably inserted into the gear 100 and engaged so as to rotate integrally.

A detection disc 108 having a radial slit for detecting a rotation angle is fixed to the coupling rotator 106a, and an optical sensor 109 for detecting the slit position is provided at an end of the disc 108. Section.

The gears 9 of the upper and lower intake rotary members 95, 95
8, 98 are transmission gears 99a, 99 between the same number of teeth.
Since b, 99c and 99d also have the same number of teeth, motor 1
05 from the drive shaft 106 to the gears 100, 10
0a, 98, 99a, 99b, 99c, 99d, 98, the rotation is transmitted to the upper and lower intake rotators 95, 9
5 rotate synchronously in opposite directions at the same speed.

Incidentally, the two take-in rotating bodies 95, 95 may be individually reversely rotated by two motors instead of the gear mechanism, or may be transmitted by a belt. The rotation of the U-turn motor 54 is controlled by two clutch rotary members 9 using a clutch mechanism (not shown) or the like.
5, 95 may be rotated.

The light emitter / receiver 85 of the linear passage 33d
When the passage of the trailing end of the bill M is detected by the a and 85b, the control board B outputs a predetermined time (take-in rotators 95 and 9).
5), a drive signal is output and the motor 105 is driven after the lapse of time until both ends of the bill M are inserted into the bill end holding grooves 97, 97 over the entire length. The bodies 95, 95 rotate in opposite directions at the same speed (the arc-shaped pressing portion 97a rotates in the direction away from the end in the width direction of the banknote M) to rotate the detection disk 108. When the rotation of the take-in rotators 95, 95 is detected by the optical sensor 109 and makes one revolution, the motor 105
To stop.

The opposite ends of the upper and lower take-in rotators 95, 95 rotate the bill M at both ends in the bill end holding grooves 97,
97, and comes into contact with the gradually increasing outer peripheral surface 95a whose radius gradually increases, and finally comes into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the arc-shaped pressing portion 97a.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 10, between the upper and lower horizontal frames 91 and 92, the take-in rotator 95,
Between the 95 and the vertical substrate 13, there is provided a bill receiving tray 116 pressed toward the take-in rotating bodies 95, 95 by a spring 115 in contact with the vertical substrate 13.

With the upper and lower ends pressed between the upper and lower ends of the pressed bill receiving tray 116 and the arc-shaped pressing portions 97a of the upper and lower rotators 95, 95, the bill end holding grooves 97, 97 are pressed. The detached bill M is pinched. Therefore, the bills M are successively held, and are held in a pressed state in which many bills M are stacked.

The upper and lower horizontal frames 91 and 92 have projecting pieces 11 extending from both upper and lower ends of the bill receiving tray 116, respectively.
Slots 119 and 120 for guiding in the direction perpendicular to the vertical substrate 13 through which the holes 7 and 118 pass are provided.
0). Since the projecting pieces 117 and 118 are movable only along the guide slots 119 and 120, the bill receiving tray 116 pressed by the spring 115 can move in a direction perpendicular to the vertical substrate 13.

When the number of bills M to be held gradually increases and the amount of compression of the spring 115 increases, and the distance between the bill receiving tray 116 and the vertical substrate 13 approaches a predetermined distance, it is further extended from the lower projecting piece 118. The micro switch 122 is attached to the lower surface of the lower horizontal frame 2 in order to detect the fullness due to the contact of the vertical extending piece 118a.

When a full detection signal is output from the microswitch 122, the control board B displays a full state on a display (not shown) and stops driving the motor 54 for the U-turn of the bill.

Between the upper and lower intake rotary members 95, 95,
The upper and lower ends of the bill M are pushed down at the center in the vertical direction of the bill M sent from the transport device 30 so that the upper and lower ends of the bill M are reliably inserted into the bill end holding grooves 97, 97 of the upper and lower take-in rotating bodies 95, 95, Further, a holding guide body 130 is provided for pressing the bill M, whose upper and lower ends have come off from the bill end holding grooves 97, 97 by the rotation of the take-in rotating bodies 95, to the bill receiving tray 116.

The holding guide body 130 has a substantially rectangular plate shape, and is provided with an inclined guide part 130a (FIG. 6) inclined at a direction away from the vertical substrate 13 at the end on the side of the transfer device 30. Locking portion 13 at the back end
As shown in FIG. 7, a locking arm 61 of the projection 61 is provided.
b, and the locking portion 132 at the other end is removably locked to the gear cover 101 as shown in FIG.

If a window 133 is provided in the holding guide body 130, a finger may be inserted into this window 133 to catch the banknote M in the window 133 without removing the holding guide body 130 in case of failure such as a catch of the bill M. Can be extracted.

The transport device cover 140 which covers the lower surface of the side surface parallel to the vertical substrate 13 and the lower surface of the side surface parallel to the back plate 15 of the transport device 30 is provided with screws on the vertical edge plates 31a, 32a of the upper and lower non-flat frames 31, 32. Secured by stops.

In order to be parallel to the vertical substrate 13,
The stack holding device cover 141 is connected to the upper and lower horizontal frames 9.
1, 92 are fixed by screws.

As shown in FIG. 1, a vertically long U-shaped front cover 1 is provided on the front surface of the storage portion of the control board B surrounded by the horizontal plate 17, the bottom plate 14, and the case plate 18 below the vertical board 13.
Upper and lower ends of 50 are screwed and fixed in respective screw holes of the edge plate 17b of the horizontal plate 17 and the edge plate 14b of the bottom plate 14.

At the upper end of the front cover 150, a lower end of a vertically long U-shaped front cover 151 is rotatably attached by a hinge 152. A key hole 153 is provided on the front surface of the upper end of the front lid 151. When a key is inserted into the key hole 153 and rotated, the key piece 154 on the back side of the front lid 151 rotates.

Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 1, the front bracket 151 is rotated and closed, and the fixing bracket 20 fixed to the upper surface of the upper plate 16 is closed.
From the notch 22a of the vertical piece 22
After inserting the key, insert the key into the key hole 153 and insert the key piece 154.
Is rotated to allow the key pieces 154 to enter the slits 155 provided in the bottom plate 21 and the upper plate 16 of the fixing bracket 20, whereby the front lid 151 is closed and the key is locked.

Then, the key is opened, the front cover 151 is opened, and a finger is inserted into the bill outlet 93 of the support plate 94 to take out the bill M held between the bill receiving tray 116 and the take-in rotators 95, 95. be able to. A notch 116a is provided at the center of the front end of the bill receiving tray 116 so that the front end of the bill M can be easily grasped with a finger (FIG. 4).

The fixing bracket 20 of the upper plate 16 is for screwing to a mounting plate 160 (FIG. 5) fixed to the lower surface of the upper frame plate 2 in the unused space A.

That is, as shown in FIG.
On the lower surface of the upper frame plate 2, the hole 161 a of the bottom plate 161 of the mounting plate 160 is nailed or screwed to the lower surface of the unused space portion A near the vertical plate 5 b of the upper frame plate 2. 160 is fixed.

Then, the bill handling device 10 is put into the unused space A with the vertical board 13 of the unit case substrate 12 contacting the vertical plate 5b on the left side of the unused space A, and The rear vertical piece 23 is attached to the mounting plate 160.
Abut on the vertical leading edge 162. And the vertical piece 23
The screw 163 inserted into the screw insertion hole 23a of the
Notch 22a of the front vertical piece 22 in the screw hole 162a
By screwing in the tip of the screwdriver from
The upper part of the bill handling device 10 is fixed to the upper frame plate 2 of the unused space A. Then, the bottom plate 14 of the unit case substrate 12
In the hole 14a, the lower part of the bill handling device 10 is fixed by screwing to the lower frame plate 3 of the unused space portion A.

After fixing above and below the unused space part A as described above, the front cover 150 is attached, the front cover 151 is closed, and the key is locked. Then, the game media lending machine 6 is inserted and fixed. In this manner, the banknote handling apparatus 10 can be installed in the narrow unused space A between the game medium lending machine 6 and the left vertical plate 5b.

Conversely, the game media lending machine 6 is removed, the front cover 151 and the front cover 150 are removed, and the screws at the front edges of the fixing bracket 20 and the mounting plate 160 are removed.
By removing the screw 4, the bill handling apparatus 10 can be taken out to the front side.

As described above, in the bill handling apparatus 10 of the present invention, the bill M discharged in the upright state from the discharge port 8 on the back surface of the game medium lending machine 6 is U-turned by the transport apparatus 30 in the upright state. Banknote M in the medium lending machine 6
Is moved in a straight line direction parallel to and in the opposite direction to the moving direction of the bills, and is held in a pressed state stacked between the upper and lower take-in rotators 95, 95 and the bill receiving tray 116. Many bills M can be stored inside.

Then, the straight passage portion 33 of the transfer device 30
At the end of d, as shown in FIG.
The shafts 72a, 72a of the feed rollers 72, 72 to be pressed against the conveyor belts 64, 64 at the positions 3, 63 are movably accommodated in the elongated holes 74, 74 in the support pieces 73a, 73a in the feed direction. Until the rear end of the bill M is fed, the feed rollers 72, 72 move to the front ends of the elongated holes 74, 74 in the feeding direction by the frictional force. For this reason, the rear end of the banknote M will be held and sent out until it reaches the rear end of the banknote end holding grooves 97, 97 of the rotating bodies 95, 95. There is an effect that the bills 95 and 95 are inserted into the bill end holding grooves 97 and 97.

After the transport, the conveyor belt 64 is stopped, and then, when the take-in rotating bodies 95, 95 are rotated, the bill M is pushed out to the bill receiving tray 116 side. The delivery rollers 72, 72 are pushed, so that the shafts 72a, 72a of the delivery rollers 72, 72 are pressed.
Are linear passage portions 33d, 33d along the long holes 74, 74.
Retreat to the back side of. For this reason, the next time the bill M is conveyed through the linear passage portions 33d, 33d, the bill M comes into contact with the front end of the bill M at a position on the inner side even slightly, so that the bill M is more reliably pinched and conveyed. is there.

In the above embodiment, the transport device 3 on the back side is used.
0 and the stacking and holding device 90 are mounted on an integrated unit case substrate 12, but the rear transfer device 30 and the stacking and holding device 90 are divided into two cases (not shown). )), And the transfer device 30 on the back side
And the wiring of the control board B can be connected and separated by a connector, and the inner ends of the take-in rotating bodies 95 and 95 and the holding guide body 130 are attached to the front separation case, so that the transfer device 30 is constituted. If the side separation case (not shown) is mounted on the back side of the unused space A and on the back side of the game medium lending machine 6, only the front case constituting the stack holding device 90 can be taken out to the front side. it can.

As shown in FIG. 4, the dispensing device 170 is provided with a dispensing roller 171 facing the window 133 of the pressing guide body 130. A friction ring 172 made of a friction material such as rubber is mounted on the payout roller 171 and is rotated by a payout motor 173 to sequentially pay out bills in the stack holding device 90 forward.

The bill outlet 93 of the stack holding device 90
Is provided with a pair of light projector 180a and light receiver 180b. For this reason, the exchanged bills to be paid out block the light between the light emitter 180a and the light receiver 180b, so that the bill detection signal from the light receiver 180b causes the bill M
To detect the number of payouts, banknote jams, and the like.

The above-mentioned game media lending machine 6 and bill handling device 1
The bill discriminating device 190 is arranged in the upper curtain plate part 1a of No. 0. This bill identification device 190 is expensive (5,000 yen,
(10,000 yen) A bill insertion slot 191 for inserting a bill S, a bill identification unit 192 for identifying the large bill S inserted from the bill insertion slot 191, and a large bill S identified as a correct bill are stored. And a storage unit 193.

If it is determined that the bill is correct, the bill M in the stack holding device 90 is paid out to the bill payout port 200 while being counted by the payout device 170 by the amount corresponding to the denomination. is there.

In the above description, the bill M inserted into the game medium lending machine 6 is to be paid out as a currency exchange bill.
As shown in the figure, a take-in rotator 95 substantially similar to the stack holding device 90 that holds a large number of bills R stored in advance as currency exchange bills in a pressed state in the middle or lower portion of the bill handling device 10, The currency exchange unit 300 may include a bill stacking and pressing mechanism including a spring 95, a bill tray 116, and the like, and a payout device 170, and may pay out the bill R.

[0085]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the game media rental machine is erected from the back of the game media rental machine by utilizing the unused space between the game media rental machine and one of the gaming machines. The banknotes discharged in the state are U-turned while standing in the front direction of the unused space portion, and the banknotes stacked and pressed in the unused space portion to be paid out as exchange banknotes are held. Therefore, it is possible to omit a large-scale bill transport device (system) for transporting the bills of the entire game island, thereby reducing costs. Also, even on a gaming island equipped with a box-type gaming machine that cannot be opened forward, such as a slot machine, it is necessary to inspect the back side of the gaming machine because a device for transporting the entire bill is not used. Therefore, there is no problem at all, and there is no problem that the game media lending machine becomes unusable due to a trouble in the bill transport device system.

[0086] Further, according to the present invention, the accumulated bills are used as exchange bills, so that they can be more effectively utilized and high-value bills can be exchanged.
This eliminates the problem that the player has to take his / her seat and go to the currency exchange machine installed on the island end as in the past.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, it is possible to immediately use (exchange money) irrespective of insertion of bills into the game medium lending machine 6.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the structure of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the structure of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the structure of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a sectional view showing the mounting of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a horizontal sectional view of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a side view showing the passage forming body of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

8 is a sectional view taken along line DD in FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a view for explaining the movement of a delivery roller of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 10 is a vertical sectional view showing the stack holding device of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view of a part of the stack holding device of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 12 is a schematic horizontal sectional view showing the configuration of a gaming island.

FIG. 13 is a schematic front view showing the configuration of a gaming island.

FIG. 14 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a schematic horizontal sectional view showing the configuration of a conventional gaming island.

FIG. 16 is a schematic front view showing a configuration of a conventional game island.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A Unused space 1 Gaming island 1a Upper curtain 4 Gaming machine 6 Game media lending machine 8 Discharge port 10 Banknote storage device 30 Transport device 90 Stacking device 170 Payout device 173 Payout motor 190 Banknote discriminating device 191 Banknote slot 192 Banknote recognition unit 193 Storage unit 200 Banknote payout slot 300 Currency exchange unit 400 Banknote exchange device

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A bill exchange device for a gaming island, which stores bills discharged from the back of a gaming medium lending machine provided between two adjacent gaming machines on a gaming island and pays out the currency as currency exchange bills. The game media lending machine is provided over a back portion and an unused space provided between the game media lending machine and one of the gaming machines, and stands from the game media lending machine to the back side of the game media lending machine. A transfer device that makes the U-turn the input bills discharged in the state in the unutilized space portion in a standing state and transports the bill toward the front direction, and a bill provided in the unused space portion and transported by the transport device. A stack handling device that includes a stack holding device that holds the stack in the thickness direction while being pressed in a standing state and holds the pressed state, and a payout device that pays out the bills in the stack holding device in a standing state on the front surface as exchange bills. It is provided on the upper curtain plate portion of the game media lending machine and the banknote handling device, and has a bill slot capable of accepting a bill on the front surface,
A bill exchange device for a gaming island, comprising: a bill discriminating device that reads identification information of a received bill and outputs denomination information and includes a storage unit that stores the accepted bill. 2. The currency exchange device for game islands according to claim 1, wherein the currency exchange banknotes are stored in an upright state in the banknote handling device in advance and are paid out to a front payout port.