Money-operated entertainment device

US5735379A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• NSM CO., LTD. · DE

Inventors

• Ullrich Schulze · Wiesbaden, DE
• Horst Niederlein · Bingen, DE
• Andreas Buchholz · Bingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 29, 1996
• Grant date: Apr 7, 1998
• Expiry date: May 29, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F11/44
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A computer-controlled entertainment device operated with at least one of money and money equivalents includes: a housing; a plurality of viewing windows disposed on the housing; a symbol game arrangement for displaying winning and losing symbol combinations including a plurality of rotating bodies disposed in the housing behind respective ones of the viewing windows; an optionally selectable additional prize game arrangement for one of playing to completion and accumulating a prize won in the symbol game arrangement; a money processing arrangement including a value specific stacking arrangement for items of value, a prize delivery arrangement operatively connected to the stacking arrangement and comprising at least one collection bin for the items of value, the collection bin being configured such that a filling level thereof is visible from a region outside the entertainment device; a computer control arrangement for filling the collection bin with items of value up to a final total value which is one of predetermined by a computer and fixed by random control at the stacking arrangement; a storage bin integrated in the housing so as to be in communication with the collection bin; …