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EP0326051B1
EP0326051B1 EP89101071A EP89101071A EP0326051B1 EP 0326051 B1 EP0326051 B1 EP 0326051B1 EP 89101071 A EP89101071 A EP 89101071A EP 89101071 A EP89101071 A EP 89101071A EP 0326051 B1 EP0326051 B1 EP 0326051B1
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  • the invention relates to a coin-operated entertainment machine, in particular sports machines, according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Such entertainment machines are known in multiple embodiments.
  • an entertainment machine designed as a dart game device it is customary to provide a game selection switch which enables the selection of different games with different skill levels.
  • the game types “High Score”, "501”, “301”, “Shanghai” and “Scram” are mentioned as examples of the different games.
  • club players In order to further increase the entertainment during the execution of these games, several players often form a player community in a club. Club players meet regularly to hold competitive games. In addition, competition games between different clubs also take place at certain intervals. In order to promote club life, the player community generally receives a wide variety of gifts from the operator of an amusement machine and / or from the innkeeper in whose restaurant the amusement machine is located.
  • a coin operated machine according to the preamble of claim 1 is known as a vending machine from US-A-1,903,048.
  • the invention has for its object to improve an entertainment machine of the type mentioned in so far as a community of players further additional incentive to the game is offered.
  • the pivoting movement of the coin passageway can be carried out according to one embodiment of the invention by means of a multi-position key switch which is electrically coupled to an electromagnetic agent acting on the coin passageway .
  • the multi-position key switch is accessible from the outside and inserted into the entertainment machine housing.
  • the person in charge of supervising the amusement machine can determine by appropriate adjustment of the multi-position key switch when the payment required for the individual games is introduced into the main box office or into the club box office.
  • the multiple-position key switch is arranged in the vicinity of the workplace of the person who is supervising the amusement machine.
  • the coin passage is articulated to an adjustment lever located inside the housing of the entertainment machine, which has a number of latching positions corresponding to the number of coin cassettes.
  • the person supervising the machine must bring the adjusting lever into the desired locking position by intervening in the machine housing in order to introduce the inserted coins either into the main cash register or into the club cash register.
  • the latching positions of the adjusting lever are expediently adjustable via recesses on its underside which can be brought into engagement with a housing-side bolt.
  • each coin cassette is provided with an inlet channel on its upper side. wherein the input openings of the inlet channels of the coin cassettes corresponding to the discharge opening of the coin passage are close to each other.
  • the coin passage channel arranged between the coin validator and the coin cassettes is relatively long.
  • preferably only the lower area of the coin passageway facing the coin cassettes is designed to be pivotable.
  • the coin cassettes are formed in a common housing by arranging a partition wall or a plurality of partition walls. This results in a simplified constructive arrangement of the coin cassettes.
  • a coin system 4 is accommodated in the interior 1 of the housing 2 of the entertainment machine 3. Behind an insertion slot in the front wall 5 there is a coin validator 6, which via a microswitch 7 of a control unit (not shown) of the entertainment machine 3 signals acceptance of a permissible coin. The control device and the other technical devices find their place in the free space of the interior 1 of the housing 2.
  • a coin passage 8 is arranged below the coin validator 6, the input opening 9 of which corresponds to the output opening 10 of the coin validator 6.
  • the coin passageway 8 which is pivotally mounted in the upper area in a housing-side bearing 11, is assigned three adjacent coin cassettes at its dispensing opening 12, of which the middle coin cassette functions as a main cash register for the display and the other two coin cassettes 14 each function as a club cash register for a player community take over.
  • Each coin cassette 13, 14 has an inlet channel 16 on its upper side.
  • the inlet openings 17 of the inlet channels 16, which correspond in size to the outlet opening 12 of the coin passage channel 8, are extremely close to one another just below the swiveling circle section of the coin passage channel 8 in order to achieve the necessary pivoting movement of the coin passage channel 8 to keep the optional introduction of the coins into one of the coin cassettes 13, 14 as low as possible.
  • a tab 18 articulated to the coin passageway 8 connects it to an electromagnet 19 fixed to the housing, which in turn is coupled to a multi-position key switch 20 which is mounted in the front wall 5 of the housing 2 and is accessible from the outside.
  • This switch 20 has as many functional positions as there are coin cassettes 13, 14. Each position of the key switch 20 is a certain position of the coin passage 8 and thus a certain coin cassette via the electromagnet 19 13 or 14 assigned. With the help of the key switch 20 it can thus be determined in which of the coin cassettes 13, 14 the coins inserted into the entertainment machines 3 are introduced.
  • the coin passage 8 into the positions assigned to the coin cassettes 13, 14 by means of an adjusting lever 21 articulated to it.
  • the locking positions of the adjusting lever 21 can be adjusted by means of recesses 22 on the underside of the adjusting lever 21 at a certain distance from one another, which can optionally be brought into engagement with a bolt 23 fixed to the housing.

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The invention relates to a coin-actuated gaming machine (3), especially a sports machine, with a coin tester (6) and with a coin cassette (13) located after the coin tester (6) by way of a coin passage channel (8). The subject of the invention is characterised in that next to the coin cassette (13) there is at least one additional coin cassette (14), and in that the coin passage channel (8) is made pivotable for the selective introduction of the coins into one coin cassette (13) or the other (14). <IMAGE>

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Die Erfindung bezieht sich auf einen münzbetätigten Unterhaltungsautomaten, insbesondere Sportautomaten, nach dem Oberbegriff des Anspruchs 1.The invention relates to a coin-operated entertainment machine, in particular sports machines, according to the preamble of claim 1.

Derartige Unterhaltungsautomaten sind in vielfachen Ausführungsformen bekannt. So ist es beispielsweise bei einem als Wurfpfeil-Spielgerät ausgebildeten Unterhaltungsautomaten üblich, einen Spiel-Wahl-Schalter vorzusehen, welcher die Wahl von verschiedenen Spielen mit unterschiedlichen Geschicklichkeitsniveaus ermöglicht. Als Beispiel für die verschiedenen Spiele seien hier die Spielarten "High Score", "501", "301", "Shanghai" und "Scram" genannt. Um die Unterhaltung bei der Durchführung dieser Spiele weiter zu erhöhen, schließen sich häufig mehrere Spieler zu einer Spielergemeinschaft in einem Club zusammen. Die Spieler des Clubs treffen sich regelmäßig zur Abhaltung von Wettkampfspielen. Darüber hinaus finden auch in bestimmten zeitlichen Abständen Wettkampfspiele zwischen verschiedenen Clubs statt. Zur Förderung des Clublebens erhält die Spielergemeinschaft in der Regel von dem Aufsteller eines Unterhaltungsautomaten und/oder von dem Gastwirt, in dessen Gaststätte der Unterhaltungsautomat steht, Präsente der unterschiedlichsten Art.Such entertainment machines are known in multiple embodiments. For example, in the case of an entertainment machine designed as a dart game device, it is customary to provide a game selection switch which enables the selection of different games with different skill levels. The game types "High Score", "501", "301", "Shanghai" and "Scram" are mentioned as examples of the different games. In order to further increase the entertainment during the execution of these games, several players often form a player community in a club. Club players meet regularly to hold competitive games. In addition, competition games between different clubs also take place at certain intervals. In order to promote club life, the player community generally receives a wide variety of gifts from the operator of an amusement machine and / or from the innkeeper in whose restaurant the amusement machine is located.

Ein münzbetätigter Automat gemäß dem Oberbegriff des Anspruchs 1 ist als Verkaufsautomat aus US-A-1,903,048 bekannt.A coin operated machine according to the preamble of claim 1 is known as a vending machine from US-A-1,903,048.

Der Erfindung liegt die Aufgabe zugrunde, einen Unterhaltungsautomaten der eingangs genannten Art insoweit zu verbessern, als einer Spielergemeinschaft ein noch weitergehender zusätzlicher Anreiz zum Spiel geboten wird.The invention has for its object to improve an entertainment machine of the type mentioned in so far as a community of players further additional incentive to the game is offered.

Diese Aufgabe wird erfindungsgemäß durch die Merkmale des Anspruchs 1 gelöst. Durch diese Maßnahmen ist es möglich, die eine Münzkassette als Hauptkasse für den Aufsteller und den Gastwirt und die andere Münzkassette als Clubkasse für die Spielergemeinschaft zu verwenden, wobei beispielsweise jede dritte in den Automaten eingeworfene Münze oder der Gesamtbetrag für jedes dritte am Automaten durchgeführte Spiel nicht in die Hauptkasse sondern in die Clubkasse durch entsprechende Steuerung der Schwenkbewegung des Münzdurchlaufkanals eingegeben wird. Das auf diese Weise in der Clubkasse angesammelte Geld wird der Spielergemeinschaft zur Verfügung gestellt, was nicht nur die Spieler der Spielergemeinschaft reizt, häufiger an dem Unterhaltungsautomaten zu spielen, sondern auch zur Bildung von neuen Spielergemeinschaften anregt. Damit wird die Benutzungsfrequenz des Unterhaltungsautomaten wesentlich erhöht.This object is achieved by the features of claim 1. These measures make it possible to use one coin cassette as the main cash register for the operator and the innkeeper and the other coin cassette as the club cash register for the gaming community, for example not every third coin inserted into the machine or the total amount for every third game played on the machine into the main cash register but into the club cash register by appropriately controlling the swiveling movement of the coin passageway. The money accumulated in this way in the club box office is made available to the player community, which not only excites the players of the player community to play more frequently at the amusement machine, but also encourages the formation of new player communities. This significantly increases the frequency of use of the entertainment machine.

Um die Zuordnung des Münzdurchlaufkanals entsprechend den Erfordernissen zu der Hauptkasse oder der Clubkasse auf einfache Weise bewerkstelligen zu können, ist nach einer Ausgestaltung der Erfindung die Verschwenkbewegung des Münzdurchlaufkanals mittels eines Mehrfachstellungs-Schlüsselschalters, der mit einem an den Münzdurchlaufkanal angreifenden Elektromagenten elektrisch gekoppelt ist, durchführbar. Zweckmäßigerweise ist der Mehrfachstellungs-Schlüsselschalter von außen zugänglich in das Gehäuse des Unterhaltungsautomaten eingesetzt. Dadurch kann die die Aufsicht über den Unterhaltungsautomaten führende Person durch entsprechende Verstellung des Mehrfachstellungs-Schlüsselschalters bestimmen, wann das für die einzelnen Spiele notwendige Entgeld in die Hauptkasse oder in die Clubkasse eingeleitet wird. Zur Vermeidung langer Wege für die die Aufsicht über den Unterhaltungsautomaten führende Person ist bei einer anderen vorteilhaften Ausgestaltung des Erfindungsgegenstandes der Mehrfachstel-lungs-Schlüsselschalter in der Nähe des Arbeitsplatzes der die Aufsicht über den Unterhaltungsautomaten führenden Person angeordnet.In order to be able to easily assign the coin passageway according to the requirements to the main cash register or the club cash register, the pivoting movement of the coin passageway can be carried out according to one embodiment of the invention by means of a multi-position key switch which is electrically coupled to an electromagnetic agent acting on the coin passageway . Conveniently the multi-position key switch is accessible from the outside and inserted into the entertainment machine housing. As a result, the person in charge of supervising the amusement machine can determine by appropriate adjustment of the multi-position key switch when the payment required for the individual games is introduced into the main box office or into the club box office. In order to avoid long distances for the person who supervises the amusement machine, in another advantageous embodiment of the subject of the invention, the multiple-position key switch is arranged in the vicinity of the workplace of the person who is supervising the amusement machine.

Bei einer alternativen Ausführung der erfindungsgemäßen Lösung ist der Münzdurchlaufkanal mit einem innerhalb des Gehäuses des Unterhaltungsautomaten liegenden Verstellhebel gelenkig verbunden, der eine der Anzahl der Münzkassetten entsprechende Anzahl an Raststellungen aufweist. In diesem Falle muß die die Aufsicht über den Automaten führende Person durch einen Eingriff in das Automatengehäuse den Verstellhebel in die gewünschte Rastposition bringen, um die eingeworfenen Münzen entweder in die Hauptkasse oder in die Clubkasse einzuleiten. Zweckmäßigerweise sind hierbei die Raststellungen des Verstellhebels über an seiner Unterseite angebrachte Ausnehmungen, die mit einem gehäuseseitigen Bolzen in Eingriff bringbar sind, einstellbar.In an alternative embodiment of the solution according to the invention, the coin passage is articulated to an adjustment lever located inside the housing of the entertainment machine, which has a number of latching positions corresponding to the number of coin cassettes. In this case, the person supervising the machine must bring the adjusting lever into the desired locking position by intervening in the machine housing in order to introduce the inserted coins either into the main cash register or into the club cash register. The latching positions of the adjusting lever are expediently adjustable via recesses on its underside which can be brought into engagement with a housing-side bolt.

Damit die notwendige Verschwenkbewegung des Münzdurchlaufkanals möglichst gering ist, ist nach einer vorteilhaften Weiterbildung der Erfindung jede Münzkassette an ihrer Oberseite mit einem Einleitkanal versehen, wobei die mit der Ausgabeöffnung des Münzdurchlaufkanals korrespondierenden Eingabeöffnungen der Einleitkanäle der Münzkassetten dicht nebeneinander liegen.In order that the necessary pivoting movement of the coin passage is as small as possible, according to an advantageous further development of the invention, each coin cassette is provided with an inlet channel on its upper side. wherein the input openings of the inlet channels of the coin cassettes corresponding to the discharge opening of the coin passage are close to each other.

Häufig kommt es vor, daß der zwischen dem Münzprüfer und den Münzkassetten angeordnete Münzdurchlaufkanal relativ lang ist. In einem solchen Falle ist bevorzugt nur der untere, den Münzkassetten zugewandte Bereich des Münzdurchlaufkanals verschwenkbar ausgeführt. Bei einer weiteren Alternativausführung des Erfindungsgegenstandes sind die Münzkassetten in einem gemeinsamen Gehäuse durch Anordnung einer Trennwand oder mehrerer Trennwände ausgebildet. Hierdurch ergibt sich eine vereinfachte konstruktive Anordnung der Münzkassetten.It often happens that the coin passage channel arranged between the coin validator and the coin cassettes is relatively long. In such a case, preferably only the lower area of the coin passageway facing the coin cassettes is designed to be pivotable. In a further alternative embodiment of the subject matter of the invention, the coin cassettes are formed in a common housing by arranging a partition wall or a plurality of partition walls. This results in a simplified constructive arrangement of the coin cassettes.

Innerhalb einer bevorzugten Ausgestaltung der Erfindung liegt es, den münzbetätigten Unterhaltungsautomaten in analoger Weise auch mit papierenen Zahlungsmitteln und/oder Wertmarken zu betreiben.It is within a preferred embodiment of the invention to operate the coin-operated entertainment machine in an analogous manner also with paper means of payment and / or tokens.

Der der Erfindung zurundeliegende Gedanke wird in der nachfolgenden Beschreibung anhand eines Ausführungsbeispieles, das in der Zeichnung dargestellt ist, näher erläutert. Die einzige Figur der Zeichnung stellt eine perspektivische Rückansicht eines Unterhaltungsautomaten im geöffneten Zustand mit zwei alternativen Verstellmöglichkeiten des Münzdurchlaufkanals dar.The idea on which the invention is based is explained in more detail in the following description using an exemplary embodiment which is illustrated in the drawing. The only figure in the drawing represents a rear perspective view of an entertainment machine in the open state with two alternative adjustment options for the coin passageway.

In dem Innenraum 1 des Gehäuses 2 des Unterhaltungsautomaten 3 ist eine Münzanlage 4 untergebracht. Hinter einem Einwurfschlitz in der Vorderwand 5 befindet sich ein Münzprüfer 6, der über einen Mikroschalter 7 einer nicht dargestellten Steuereinheit des Unterhaltungsautomaten 3 die Annahme einer zulässigen Münze signalisiert. Die Steuereinrichtung und die sonstigen technischen Einrichtungen finden in dem Freiraum des Innenraumes 1 des Gehäuses 2 ihren Platz. Unterhalb des Münzprüfers 6 ist ein Münzdurchlaufkanal 8 angeordnet, dessen Eingabeöffnung 9 mit der Ausgabeöffnung 10 des Münzprüfers 6 übereinstimmt. Dem im oberen Bereich in einem gehäuseseitigen Lager 11 schwenkbeweglich gelagerten Münzdurchlaufkanal 8 sind an seiner Ausgabeöffnung 12 drei nebeneinanderstehende Münzkassetten zugeordnet, von denen die mittlere Münzkassette die Funktion einer Hauptkasse für den Aufsteller hat und die beiden anderen Münzkassetten 14 jeweils die Funktion einer Clubkasse für eine Spielergemeinschaft übernehmen. Jede Münzkassette 13, 14 besitzt auf ihrer Oberseite einen Einleitkanal 16. Die in ihrer Größe mit der Ausgabeöffnung 12 des Münzdurchlaufkanals 8 übereinstimmenden Eingabeöffnungen 17 der Einleitkanäle 16 liegen dicht unterhalb des Schwenkkreisabschnittes des Münzdurchlaufkanals 8 äußerst nahe beieinander, um die notwendige Schwenkbewegung des Münzdurchlaufkanal 8 für das wahlweise Einleiten der Münzen in eine der Münzkassetten 13, 14 möglichst gering zu halten.A coin system 4 is accommodated in the interior 1 of the housing 2 of the entertainment machine 3. Behind an insertion slot in the front wall 5 there is a coin validator 6, which via a microswitch 7 of a control unit (not shown) of the entertainment machine 3 signals acceptance of a permissible coin. The control device and the other technical devices find their place in the free space of the interior 1 of the housing 2. A coin passage 8 is arranged below the coin validator 6, the input opening 9 of which corresponds to the output opening 10 of the coin validator 6. The coin passageway 8, which is pivotally mounted in the upper area in a housing-side bearing 11, is assigned three adjacent coin cassettes at its dispensing opening 12, of which the middle coin cassette functions as a main cash register for the display and the other two coin cassettes 14 each function as a club cash register for a player community take over. Each coin cassette 13, 14 has an inlet channel 16 on its upper side. The inlet openings 17 of the inlet channels 16, which correspond in size to the outlet opening 12 of the coin passage channel 8, are extremely close to one another just below the swiveling circle section of the coin passage channel 8 in order to achieve the necessary pivoting movement of the coin passage channel 8 to keep the optional introduction of the coins into one of the coin cassettes 13, 14 as low as possible.

Eine gelenkig mit dem Münzdurchlaufkanal 8 verbundene Lasche 18 verbindet diesen mit einem gehäusefesten Elektromagenten 19, der seinerseits mit einem in der Vorderwand 5 des Gehäuses 2 angebrachten, von auBen zugänglichen Mehrfachstellungs-Schlüsselschalter 20 gekoppelt ist. Dieser Schalter 20 weist soviele Funktionsstellungen auf, wie Münzkassetten 13, 14 vorhanden sind. Jeder Stellung des Schlüsselschalters 20 ist über den Elektromagneten 19 eine bestimmte Stellung des Münzdurchlaufkanals 8 und damit eine bestimmte Münzkassette 13 bzw. 14 zugeordnet. Mit Hilfe des Schlüsselschalters 20 kann also bestimmt werden, in welche der Münzkassetten 13, 14 die in den Unterhaltungsautomaten 3 eingeworfenen Münzen eingeleitet werden.A tab 18 articulated to the coin passageway 8 connects it to an electromagnet 19 fixed to the housing, which in turn is coupled to a multi-position key switch 20 which is mounted in the front wall 5 of the housing 2 and is accessible from the outside. This switch 20 has as many functional positions as there are coin cassettes 13, 14. Each position of the key switch 20 is a certain position of the coin passage 8 and thus a certain coin cassette via the electromagnet 19 13 or 14 assigned. With the help of the key switch 20 it can thus be determined in which of the coin cassettes 13, 14 the coins inserted into the entertainment machines 3 are introduced.

Alternativ hierzu ist es auch möglich, den Münzdurchlaufkanal 8 über einen an ihn angelenkten Verstellhebel 21 in die den Münzkassetten 13, 14 zugeordneten Positionen zu bringen. Die Raststellungen des Verstellhebels 21 können durch an der Unterseite des Verstellhebels 21 im bestimmten Abstand zueinander angebrachte Ausnehmungen 22, die wahlweise mit einem gehäusefesten Bolzen 23 in Eingriff bringbar sind, eingestellt werden.As an alternative to this, it is also possible to bring the coin passage 8 into the positions assigned to the coin cassettes 13, 14 by means of an adjusting lever 21 articulated to it. The locking positions of the adjusting lever 21 can be adjusted by means of recesses 22 on the underside of the adjusting lever 21 at a certain distance from one another, which can optionally be brought into engagement with a bolt 23 fixed to the housing.

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  1. Coin actuated automatic entertainment machine, especially a sports machine, with a coin processor (4) arranged inside a housing (2) of the machine (3), the processor comprising a coin checking device (6), and, connected to the output of it, a coin transit channel (8) and at least two coin chambers (13,14), wherein the coin transit channel (8) is pivotable in such manner that coins can be introduced selectably into the coin chambers (13,14) characterized in that
    - all the coins are guided by means of an appropriate control of the pivoting movement of the coin transit channel (8) either into the one coin chamber (13) which serves as the main cash box for the proprietor of the machine or into another coin chamber (14) which serves as a club cash box for participating players, and
    - the control of the coin transit channel (8) is carried out either by means of a multi-position coding switch (20) mounted on the outside of the housing and electrically coupled with an electromagnet which acts on the coin transit channel (8), or by means of an adjustment lever (21) on the inside of the housing and connected with the coin transit channel (8), whereby the actuation of the multi-position switch (20) or of the adjustment lever (21) is undertaken by the person exercising supervision over the machine (3).
  2. Coin actuated automatic entertainment machine according to Claim 1 characterized in that the multi-position coding switch (20) is arranged near to the operating position of the person exercising supervision over the entertainment machine (3).
  3. Coin actuated automatic entertainment machine according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the coin transit channel (8) is connected in articulated manner to an adjustment lever (21) positioned within the housing (2) of the automatic entertainment machine (3), and the lever (21) has a number of operating positions, which number corresponds to the number of coin chambers (13,14).
  4. Coin actuated automatic entertainment machine according to any of Claims 1 to 3 characterized in that the rest positions of the adjustment lever (21) are defined by recesses (22) arranged on the underside of the lever (21), which recesses (22) can be brought into engagement with a pin (23) fixed to the housing.
  5. Coin actuated automatic entertainment machine according to any of Claims 1 to 4 characterized in that each of the coin chambers (13,14) is provided on its upper side with an entry channel (16), and the entry channels (16) of the coin chambers (13,14) have entry openings (17) located close to one another, and coupling with the exit opening (12) of the coin transit channel (8).
  6. Coin actuated automatic entertainment machine according to any of Claims 1 to 5 characterized in that only the lower region of the coin transit channel adjacent the coin chambers (13,14) can pivot.
  7. Coin actuated automatic entertainment machine according to any of Claims 1 to 6 characterized in that the coin chambers (13,14) are formed in a common housing by an arrangement of one or several partition walls.
  8. Coin actuated automatic entertainment machine according to any of Claims 1 to 7 characterized in that it also accepts paper money and/or tokens in analogous manner.
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