US 6,981,913 B2
Gaming token payout apparatus
Masaharu Shirasawa, Tokyo (Japan); and Yoshikazu Tomioka, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Konami Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on May 02, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/136,384.
Claims priority of application No. P.2001-135162 (JP), filed on May 02, 2001; application No. P.2002-024466 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2002; and application No. P.2002-088803 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2003/0057644 A1, Mar. 27, 2003
Int. Cl. G07D 1/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 453—33 32 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gaming token payout apparatus, comprising:
a columnar member, which is rotated about a rotation axis interconnecting a center point of a top face thereof and a center point of a bottom face thereof, the columnar member having an outer peripheral face formed with at least one token-groove; and
an outer wall member, which covers the outer peripheral face of the columnar member to form a gap between an inner face of the outer wall member and the token-groove such that a single gaming token in an upright attitude is held therein,
wherein the gaming token held in the gap is ejected toward a tangent direction of the outer peripheral face of the columnar member in accordance with a rotary action of the columnar member.