Casino money handling system
First Claim
1. A system for counting monetary instruments from a plurality of games, comprising:
- a box for insertion into one of the games and for storing monetary instruments inserted into the one game;
a bill validator for accepting and validating the monetary instruments, the bill validator being adapted to communicate data to the box, the data related to the one game;
a memory device coupled to the box, the memory device being adapted to receive the data and to store the data when the box is inserted into the game; and
, a counting machine for receiving the monetary instruments stored in the box, receiving the data, counting the monetary instruments, and responsively determining a value, and for associating the data with the value, wherein the memory device is adapted to be erased after the monetary instruments have been removed and to be inserted into another of the games.
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Abstract
The subject invention provides a closed system for counting monetary instruments from a plurality of games within a casino. The system includes a universal box for insertion into one of the games and for storing monetary instruments inserted into the game. A memory device is coupled to the universal box and the memory device is adapted to receive data from the game. The system further includes a bill validator for accepting and validating the monetary instruments such that the bill validator is adapted to communicate the game identification to the universal box. The system further includes a counting machine for receiving the monetary instruments stored in the universal box and the game identification from the memory device. The counting machine associates the monetary instruments that are counted with the data and transmits to a network for real-time tracking of the money within the casino.
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33 Claims
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1. A system for counting monetary instruments from a plurality of games, comprising:
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a box for insertion into one of the games and for storing monetary instruments inserted into the one game;
a bill validator for accepting and validating the monetary instruments, the bill validator being adapted to communicate data to the box, the data related to the one game;
a memory device coupled to the box, the memory device being adapted to receive the data and to store the data when the box is inserted into the game; and
,a counting machine for receiving the monetary instruments stored in the box, receiving the data, counting the monetary instruments, and responsively determining a value, and for associating the data with the value, wherein the memory device is adapted to be erased after the monetary instruments have been removed and to be inserted into another of the games. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for counting monetary instruments from a plurality of games, comprising:
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inserting a box into one of the games;
communicating data from the bill validator to the box;
storing the data on a memory device when the box is inserted into the game;
accepting and validating the monetary instruments inserted into the one game using a bill validator, the bill validator being adapted to communicate data related to the one game to the box;
storing monetary instruments inserted into the game in the box;
removing the box from the game;
reading the data from the memory device;
erasing the data from the memory device;
transferring the monetary instruments to a counting machine, counting the monetary instruments using the counting machine and responsively determining a value;
associating the gaming identification with the value; and
,inserting the box into another one of the games. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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