DE8003414U1 - SAFE, ESPECIALLY FOR GAME HALLS - Google Patents

Description

Hamburg, February 4, 1980 234280

Applicant:

Hans Jürggn Glaue
Alsterdorfer Strasse 356

2000 Hamburg 60

Safe, especially for amusement arcades

The invention relates to a safe according to the preamble of claim 1.

Such safes are used in particular in amusement arcades, bars or other rooms in which a larger one Number of devices that can be operated by coin insertion, in particular slot machines or the like, are set up for theft-proof storage of the only in certain time

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at intervals, coins picked up by an authorized person.

The safes are each below the play equipment

s behind a preferably existing partition on- j and preferably anchored in a wall or on the floor. The coin insertion chutes or collecting bins a number of play devices are then over preferably from the rear wall of these devices and behind the preferably existing partition wall leading downward deflection connection shafts each can be connected to a coin inlet opening of the safe, so that the in the connected Devices inserted coins automatically fall into the safe in a possibly controlled falling movement.

Such arrangements are already known, with collecting bags for in the safes below the entrance openings the coins are arranged, which can be emptied or exchanged from time to time by a collector. Advantageous is with such arrangements that they provide protection against theft by the gaming audience or other persons in the The arcade or the pub in which such safes are set up. However, its use is disadvantageous open bag, which, especially in the absence of further control options, is also considered to be a reliable collector can easily entice you to take at least part of the money, and which have no protection against theft or

Offer robberies while transporting the money.

In order to address these disadvantages, anti-theft devices have been designed Transport cassettes developed that were previously used interchangeably in the individual devices or slot machines. These cassettes have a coin inlet opening which can be closed with a locking slide and an associated one Adjustment mechanism that is brought into an unlocked starting position before inserting the cassette and when Pushing the cassette into a device-fixed guide interacts with a device-fixed stop pin and counteracts

the force of a spring into an opening that releases the coin incidence Position is pushed back before the cassette is locked in the device. When removing the cassette the device then becomes the entrance opening through the from the spring pushed back slide closed and the slide by a locking device of the adjusting mechanism

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too frequent replacement of these cassettes selected capacity and the space for the installation of the adjusting and locking mechanism Certain size of these known cassettes leads to a space requirement that dan use of these Cassettes only allowed in relatively large devices. In addition, it requires the equipment with such cassettes additional equipment fixtures that reduce manufacturing costs and thus increasing the cost of the devices.

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In order not to impair the visual impression of the playground equipment and for reasons of security against theft, it is also undesirable to have the cassettes on the outside of the device are visible. The device must therefore be opened to replace the cassettes, so that the replacement process is relatively cumbersome and time consuming.

For these reasons, theft-proof transport cassettes have hitherto only been used to a limited extent, despite the parts they contain.

The invention is based on the object of an improved To create coin safe for amusement arcades and the like, which while maintaining the theft protection of the automatic Coins fed into the safe from individual play equipment also provide increased security against theft and others Dangers when collecting and transporting coins removed from the safe from time to time are guaranteed.

This object is achieved by the invention characterized in claim 1.

Appropriate refinements and developments of the invention are specified in the subclaims.

The invention stands out over known safes

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with interchangeable bags for collecting money by one effectively improved theft protection when collecting and transporting the money in the theft-proof transport cassette Is securely protected, so that theft without breaking open and thus above all an unnoticed removal of Money through the collector is excluded. In view of the sizeable sums of money wagered in larger gambling halls are, a major advantage of the invention is also to be seen in the fact that they are a reasonable effort retrofitting of such amusement arcades is permitted.

Further advantages and features of the invention emerge from the following description and the drawing of a schematic simplified, preferred exemplary embodiment the invention.

The only figure shows one according to the invention Coin safe 10 for, for example, three interchangeable, Theft-proof transport cassettes 12A, 12B, 12C of the same size and structure. For the sake of clarity are only the parts of the safe that are essential to the invention shown and for example the security lock or the security locks for locking the vault door not shown.

The safe 10 has three each on its top

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Transport kassBtten 12 assigned, through the upper edge through-going coin entry openings with upwards projecting connection stub 14A, 14B, 1 4C for the coin deflecting pipes coming from gaming machines arranged above .

Below each entry opening is in the interior of the safe a continuous, funnel-shaped feed chute 16 attached to the inner surface of the deck of the safe.

At the lower exit end of the feed chutes 16 are also correspondingly arranged and formed carrier plates 18A, 18B and 18C attached, which are each lateral Carry guide rails 20 and 22 for the transport cassettes 12 to be inserted. In the execution shown exist the side guide rails made of U-shaped bends of the plates 18.

Instead of the one provided in this exemplary embodiment, separate carrier plates 18A, 18B and 18C, a continuous carrier plate can also be provided, which the Guide rails 20, 22 for the individual transport cassettes 12 and carries on the side walls and the rear wall of the safe can be attached.

On a rail of the guides for the individual transport

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kassBttan, for example on the rail 22, is a cutout 24 exists, the purpose of which will be explained later. Furthermore, between the respective guide rails 20 and 22 of a guide there is a downwardly curved guide, for example Tab of the plate 18 or a pin-shaped stop 26 seated on the back wall of the safe is provided, its function will also be explained later.

The transport cassettes 12 each consist of a housing 30 with an upper closure plate 32 and one cut out therein coin entrance opening 34, which is through a gate valve 36 an adjusting and locking mechanism attached to the underside of the upper cover plate 32 is known per se Design is lockable.

By a gradation on the upper longitudinal edges of the housing and the overlying edges of the cover plate 32 are lateral Guide channels 40 and 42 formed, which with the guide rails 20 and 22 of the guide built into the safe cooperate. An edge recess 44 in the area of the guide channel 42 is aligned with the inserted cassette the recess 24 of the respective guide rail 22. The slots lying one above the other when the cassette 12 is inserted 24 and 44 are used to lock the inserted cassette by means of a lock 46, not shown pivotable and immersed in the slots 24 and 44, pivotable on - 8 -

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the cartridge 12 attached latch. Another lock is used to open the cassette, the lid 32 for emptying can be removed. A handle 50 on the front of the cassette facilitates insertion and removal in the respective guides.

The setting and locking mechanism, which is known per se, is brought into a preparatory position when the cassette is empty, in which the slide 36 closes the opening 34, but is not locked.

When inserting the cassette 12 into the guides 20 and 22 the slide 36 then moves into an opening 34 against the force of a spring belonging to the actuating mechanism the cassette 12 releasing position moved, and zuar by means of the through a rear opening into the inserted The stop pin that enters the cassette and is fixed in the safe 26, the one with a counter stop of the adjusting mechanism the cassette 12 cooperates. The cassette is then in the inserted position by means of the lock 46 and the bolt ί, τη pivoted into the slots 24 and 44 of the guide safe.

The coins coming from a slot machine can now pass through the respective entry opening 14, the one in the safe Incidence funnel 16 through the immediately

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adjoining the lower funnel opening, from the slide 36 released cassette opening 34 fall into the cassette 12.

To remove the cassette, the locking bolt is released from the Locking slots 24 and 44 of the guide pivoted back and the cassette pulled out, the slide 36 returns to its closed position and by means of a locking member which is disabled in the preparation position is blocked against reopening. In this locked position, it is not possible to move the slide 36 to open, for example, by means of a tool that has the same effect as the stop pin 26.

A new opening in this way is only possible if previously the adjusting and locking mechanism was brought back into its unlocked preparatory position.

In summary, it should be noted that the invention a security against theft which is considerably improved compared to known arrangements is ensured, as an undesirable one The cassette can only be opened by breaking it open.

The above-described embodiment of a safe with three exchangeable transport cassettes is it should also be noted that such a size of deposit is before cillem

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for retrofitting an amusement arcade or the like is particularly cheap, ueil if space is limited the connection of three slot machines allowed, for example can be hung on a superior Zuischenuand, behind which the safe 10 is anchored in the ground and the coin feed lines from each Slot machines can be relocated to the filler neck 14 of the safe 10 and thus not for the gaming audience are visible.

Claims 1

Claims (4)

- 11 - Claims 1. Safe with a number of coin entry openings on its upper side and with removably arranged below the individual entry openings in the interior of the safe Collection containers for coins, in particular for installation in amusement arcades, thereby identified draws that in the upper part of the interior of the safe f (10) which the inlet openings (14) extend downward fende coin shafts and at the level of the lower shaft ends between the door opening and the rear wall of the safe running, parallel sgiten guides (20, 22) are present, and that the collecting containers can be pushed into these guides, theft-proof transport cassettes with one when a cassette is removed from the guide automatically by a locking slide (36) are lockable coin entrance opening (34). 2. Safe according to claim 1, characterized in that the funnel-shaped coin slots (16) on the upper one Tresoruand are attached and at its lower end an attached, parallel to the floor support plate (18) with the side guides (20, 22). 3. Safe according to claim 2, characterized by a gB- - 13 - mainsamB, irri Traaor befsstigts and aina partition to the
Upper part of the TrasorinnenraumBs forming support plate for the attached side guides (2G, 22) for
Insertion of the transport cassette (12). 4. Safe according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by the upper part of the interior of the safe in the area of the door opening of the safe (10) towards the front, Cover plate preferably made of sheet steel (26).