Abstract: A bank note conveying apparatus provides stable conveyance of bank notes by firmly pinching the bank notes from both sides. The apparatus comprises an endless belt 1 contacting one of the two faces of a bank note A, a belt driving mechanism which rotates the endless belt 1, a ball 2 which is provided to come into contact with the opposite face of the two faces of the bank note, and a holder 4 which supports the ball 2 to rotate freely. The holder 4 comprises a casing 4a which houses the ball 2 so that it is movable in the direction to and from the endless belt. A coil spring 7 is provided within the casing 4a which pushes the ball 2 in the direction of the endless belt.

Abstract: A bank note transporting apparatus for transporting externally inserted bank notes is provided in an game machine island in which a plurality of game machines (12) and a plurality of game media lending machines (13) for lending game media used for playing games are disposed. The bank note transporting apparatus comprises a main transporting path (200) provided within the island for transporting bank notes to a destination position and an introducing path (300) disposed in at least one position along the length of the main transporting path for merging bank notes externally inserted into the island to the main transporting path. The main transporting path including an accepting slot (3) for accepting the bank notes from the introducing path. The introducing path including a bank note inserting unit (4) into which the bank notes are externally, inserted and a merging unit (9a) for guiding and transporting the inserted bank notes to the accepting slot.

Abstract: In a reserve tank structure for supplying, to a collecting gutter mounted slantedly in a lower part of a pachinko island and communicating with a lower tank above which a polishing and lifting device is located, pachinko balls which have flowed over the polishing and lifting device, a reserve tank is divided into a plurality of tank parts arranged on a plane. These parts each have an inclined bottom surface and each includes, under a lower portion of the entire reserve tank, an inclined lower gutter communicating with the bottom surfaces of the individual tank parts and also communicating with the collecting gutter.

Abstract: In a ball conveying gutter system, a gutter (21), (26) for carrying pachinko balls in order to supply them to the individual pachinko machines and for storing the pachinko balls is supported by successive gutter supports mounted respectively between successive pairs of confronting posts. Each gutter support has at opposite ends a pair of hooks, and the confronting posts of each pair have a pair of holes for detachably catching the opposite hooks respectively.

Abstract: A curtain panel assembly, for an island of game machines, which enables any person of the amusement arcade to look into the island easily and quickly to check the states of game mediums in a distribution gutter situated in the upper part of a support frame of the island or for the purpose of maintenance of the interior structure of the island. In the curtain panel assembly, a curtain panel is mounted on the upper part of the support frame outwardly thereof and is pivotally connected at its upper edge to the upper frame edge. The curtain panel has on its inside wall surface a mirror on which the image of the interior, e.g. the distribution gutter, of the island is reflected so as to be observed from outside when the curtain panel is moved angularly about the upper panel edge to open as the lower panel edge is pulled upwardly.

Abstract: A unit support frame structure, for a game machine island, comprises a pair of parallel horizontal shelf plates adapted to be attached to a pair of rows of game machines in the island, a plurality of vertical partition frame plates disposed under the shelf plates, two pair of parallel vertical posts mounted on opposite inner ends of the respective shelf plates, and a pair of gate-shape upper support frames connected at opposite lower portions of each support frame to upper end portions of the posts of the respective adjacent pair.