JP4056259B2 - Medal lending machine - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a medal lending machine that is installed and used on the side of a gaming machine that uses medals as game media in a game hall, and that pays out a predetermined number of medals in response to insertion of a value-added medium. .
[0002]
[Prior art]
In the amusement hall, a so-called medal lending machine that lends medals, which are gaming media of slot machines, is installed on the side of a gaming machine called a slot machine when a value-added medium is inserted. The value-added medium is a bill, a coin, a prepaid card, an IC card, a credit card, or the like, and is a value medium necessary for a player to borrow a medal. Although it is possible for a player to purchase a medal using a value-added medium, since it is common to borrow a medal at the current game hall, the following explanation will be given assuming that the medal is lent out. . Moreover, since a banknote is common as an added value medium used in the present game hall, in the following description, it demonstrates using a banknote as an example of an added value medium.
[0003]
Currently, in many amusement halls where slot machines are installed, when a player inserts a predetermined amount of banknotes into a banknote insertion slot of a medal lending machine installed on the side of the slot machine in order to borrow medals used for gaming. Accordingly, a predetermined number of medals are paid out from a medal payout opening provided on the front face of the main body of the medal lending machine. A medal lending machine that lends medals is installed on the side of the slot machine, so that a player can play a game on the slot machine using medals paid out from the medal lending machine without standing up. As a result, the time for the player to interrupt the game can be shortened. In addition, for the game hall operator, an increase in the number of games per hour of the player by installing a medal lending machine on the side of the slot machine leads to an increase in profits.
[0004]
Many medal payout ports of conventional medal lending machines are provided with a receiving tray for receiving the paid-out medals, and the paid-out medals are stored in the receiving tray. In this case, the player takes out the medals stored in the tray by hand and moves them to the medal storage unit, which is provided on the front surface of the slot machine where the player plays the game and stores the medals used for the game. Then, several medals were taken out from the medal storage part by hand and inserted into the medal slot of the slot machine to play a game. For this reason, it takes time to insert a bill into the medal lending machine and play a game, and touching the medal with the hand may cause the hand to become dirty.
[0005]
Therefore, a medal lending machine has been devised and used to provide a bowl-shaped nozzle at the medal lending port on the front of the main body of the medal lending machine to guide the medals paid out from the main body of the medal lending machine to the medal storage part of the slot machine. Has been. Furthermore, depending on the mode of the slot machine's medal slot, the medal paid out from the main body is guided not to the slot machine's medal storage unit but to the slot machine's medal slot, and the medal is inserted into the medal slot. A medal lending machine has been devised that is equipped with a nozzle for direct injection.
[0006]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the medal lending machine that guides medals to the medal slot of the slot machine using the nozzle as described above, the path for guiding the medals at the tip of the nozzle is substantially linear, so the tip of the nozzle The speed at which the medal is dropped is determined by the route along which the medal is guided to the tip of the nozzle. For this reason, the speed at which the medal is dropped from the tip of the nozzle varies, and depending on the speed at which the medal is dropped from the nozzle tip, the medal cannot be dropped well at the medal slot, or from the medal slot In some cases, medals bounced out and scattered around.
[0007]
The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problems of the prior art, by curving the tip of the nozzle guide path toward the side of the guided medal in the traveling direction. An object of the present invention is to provide a medal lending machine that decelerates the speed at which a medal is dropped from a nozzle and ensures that the medal is dropped into a medal slot of a slot machine.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, the medal lending machine of the present invention is used by being installed on the side of a gaming machine that uses medals as a game medium, and pays a predetermined number of medals according to the addition of a value-added medium. A main body having a medal payout mechanism to be placed, and a medal paid out from the main body , arranged in parallel with the gaming machine on the front surface of the gaming machine to guide the medal paid out to the medal slot of the gaming machine, and the medal slides down A bottom portion provided with a sufficient inclination, an inner wall standing on the gaming machine side of the bottom portion, and standing on a side opposite to the gaming machine side of the bottom portion and in front of the tip of the inner wall. an outer wall which is inwardly curved wall, Ru and a gutter-like nozzle consisting of.
[0009]
The nozzle is provided on the gaming machine side of the nozzle tip, and an opening formed between the tip of the inner wall and the tip of the outer wall, and the medal falls to the gaming machine side. as such, the said front end of the bottom portion when leaving a portion of the outer wall cutout provided continuously to the opening, Ru comprising a.
[0010]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The medal lending machine 2 using the present invention is installed and used on the side of the slot machine 5 as shown in FIG. A bowl-like nozzle 4 is supported on the front upper portion of the main body 3 of the medal lending machine 2 so as to be rotatable in a substantially horizontal direction. The nozzle 4 protrudes obliquely downward with a sufficient inclination from the front surface of the main body 3 so that the medal can slide down inside the bag. The medals paid out from the main body 3 are guided along the inside of the nozzle 4 and dropped into the medal slot 6 from the tip of the nozzle 4.
[0011]
FIG. 2 shows an outline of the external appearance and internal structure of the main body 3 of the medal lending machine 2. An opening / closing door 12 provided with a bill insertion slot 11 into which a predetermined bill, for example, a thousand-yen bill is inserted, is provided at the lower front portion of the main body 3. The open / close door 12 is locked by a lock 13 so that it cannot be easily opened and closed. Inside the main body 3 and behind the banknote insertion slot 11, a banknote recognition device 14 having a space for storing a banknote inserted from the banknote insertion slot 11 is disposed. The banknote recognition device 14 determines whether the inserted banknote is authentic or denominated, and when an effective banknote is identified, the banknote is taken in and stored, and an effective banknote has been inserted. An electric signal is input to the control device 15 disposed in the center of the main body 3. When an invalid banknote is identified, the banknote is returned from the banknote slot 11. The banknotes stored in the banknote identification device 14 can be taken out by opening the door 12. When an automatic bill collection device is connected from the outside of the main body 3, the bill taken into the bill recognition device 14 is carried outside and stored outside, so the door 12 is opened to open the bill. It is not necessary to take out.
[0012]
In addition, when using what is not a banknote as an added value medium, what is necessary is just to provide suitably the identification apparatus according to the value medium instead of the banknote identification apparatus 14. FIG. For example, when an IC card is used, a device for identifying whether the IC card is valid and appropriately rewriting the recorded information in the IC card may be provided in the main body of the medal lending machine.
[0013]
A panel door 17 with a lock 16 provided with a rotation hole 10 and a nozzle 4 is detachably provided on the upper front surface of the main body 3. A medal payout device 18 having functions of storing medals and paying out medals is disposed inside the main body 3 and behind the panel door 17. When the medal payout device 18 is instructed to give a medal by an electric signal from the control device 15, the medal payout device 18 pays out a medal to the upper end portion of the nozzle 4. The control device 15 issues a medal payout instruction to the medal payout device 18 so that a predetermined number of medals are paid out according to the bills inserted into the bill insertion slot 11. The correspondence between the inserted banknotes and the number of medals to be paid out may be determined as appropriate, such as paying out 50 medals according to the insertion of one thousand yen bill. The replenishment of medals to the medal payout device 18 is performed by opening the medal replenishment door 20 with the lock 19. For maintenance of the medal payout device 18, the lock 16 can be unlocked, and the panel door 17 together with the rotation hole 10 and the nozzle 4 can be removed from the main body. When an automatic replenishing device that replenishes medals is connected to the medal payout device 18 from the outside of the main body 3, it is not necessary to open the medal replenishing door 20 to replenish medals.
[0014]
A display unit 21 is provided on the front surface of the control device 15. The display unit 21 displays whether or not medals can be lent, the number of medals paid out, and the like by display operation control of the control device 15.
[0015]
A schematic top view of the entire nozzle 4 is shown in FIG. 3, and a perspective view of the tip of the nozzle 4 as seen from the right side in the direction of travel of the guided medal is shown in FIG. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the nozzle 4 includes an inner wall 4 a, an outer wall 4 b, and a bottom 4 c. The inner wall 4a and the outer wall 4b are sufficiently high to prevent medals from jumping out in the middle of the nozzle 4, and along the path formed by being surrounded by the inner wall 4a, the outer wall 4b and the bottom 4c. The medal is guided.
[0016]
The bottom 4c extends from the inner wall 4a in the direction in which the medal is guided, and a notch 4d is provided on the inner wall side of the portion extending from the inner wall 4a in the direction in which the medal is guided. ing. Further, the inner wall 4a and the outer wall 4b are substantially parallel until reaching the tip of the nozzle 4, but at the tip, the outer wall 4b extends beyond the inner wall 4a in the direction in which the medal is guided. In addition, it is curved toward the inner wall 4a, and has a shape that wraps around the front of the inner wall 4a. That is, the tip of the route for guiding medals is curved in the direction of the direction in which the medals are guided and toward the slot machine 3 when the medals are guided to the medal slot 6. It will be.
[0017]
The medal that travels in the nozzle 4 is changed in the traveling direction by the notch 4d provided in the outer wall 4b and the bottom 4c curved at the tip of the nozzle 4, and the traveling speed is decelerated from the opening 4e. Since it is dropped into the medal insertion slot 6, it will not momentarily fall out of the medal insertion slot 6, or the medal will jump out of the medal insertion slot 6 and jump out.
[0018]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the medal renting machine of the present invention, the tip of the nozzle guiding path is curved toward the side in the direction of travel of the guided medal. It is possible to reduce the dropped speed and ensure that the medal is dropped into the slot machine medal slot.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is an external perspective view when a medal lending machine using the present invention is installed on the side of a slot machine.
FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of a medal lending machine using the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a schematic top view of a nozzle using the present invention.
FIG. 4 is an external perspective view of the tip of a nozzle using the present invention as viewed from the right side in the direction of travel of medals guided by the nozzle.
[Explanation of symbols]
2 Medal lending machine 3 Main body 4 Nozzle 4a Inner side wall 4b Outer side wall 4c Bottom 5 Slot machine 6 Medal insertion slot 11 Bill insertion slot 14 Bill identification device 15 Control device 18 Medal dispensing device

Claims (1)

A main body having a medal payout mechanism that is installed and used on the side of a gaming machine having medals as game media, and that pays out a predetermined number of medals in response to insertion of a value-added medium;
A bottom portion provided in front of the gaming machine in parallel with the gaming machine for guiding the medals paid out from the main body to the medal slot of the gaming machine, and provided with an inclination sufficient for the medal to slide down; An inner wall erected on the gaming machine side of the bottom, and an outer wall erected on the opposite side of the gaming machine side of the bottom and curved toward the inner wall in front of the tip of the inner wall; A bowl-shaped nozzle consisting of
In the medal lending machine equipped with
An opening formed between the tip of the inner wall and the tip of the outer wall, provided on the gaming machine side of the tip of the nozzle;
A medal comprising: a notch provided continuously in the opening, leaving a part of the outer wall side at the tip of the bottom so that the medal falls to the gaming machine side. Lending machine.

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