US 2003/0119584 A1 · Slot machine

Abstract

A slot machine is adapted to discern and accept both conventional currency and gaming chips. The slot machine sorts and stores the accepted currency and chips, transmitting data pertaining to the value of the respective denominations to a mechanism which ultimately initiates a slot machine's gaming and payout sequences. In one embodiment, the apparatus is an add-on to an existing slot machine permitting it to accommodate both money and gaming chips. In another embodiment, an original equipment manufactured apparatus is capable of accommodating the same.

Claims2

Dependent claims

A coin gaming machine adapted to receive and identify both legal tender coins and casino gaming chips and communicate the currency value of coins inserted into said machine and chips inserted into said machine and relay said value to a memory device in said slot machine to thereby initiate the claim of said gaming machine.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/357,681Filed 4 Feb 2003

Priority

25 Jan 2001

Published

26 Jun 2003

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G07F 17/3246
Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes: involving coins and/or banknotes
G07F 17/3248
Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes: involving non-monetary media of fixed…
G07F 17/34
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines
G07F
Coin-freed or like apparatus

Abstract

Claims2

Dependent claims

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Slot machine

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims2

Slot machine

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims2