Wms Gaming, Inc.

Cummins-allison Corporation

Bally Gaming, Inc.

Sg Gaming, Inc.

Mieh, Inc.

Lnw Gaming, Inc.

Balley Gaming, Inc.

James M. Rasmussen

James M Rasmussen

Mark B Gagner

Alfred Thomas

Timothy C Loose

Victor T Shi

Norman R Wurz

Damon E Gura

Vladimir I Arezina

Timothy John Durham

Jim Motyl

Paul M Lesley

Robert J Glenn, Ii

Stephen A Canterbury

Jack B Hough

Matthew R Fitzsimons

Douglas U Mennie

William C Cesaroni

John R Blake

Victor Mercado

Craig Joe Sylla

Timothy T Gronkowski

Jesse M Smith

Samuel D Ralston

Gene Rigsby

Larry J Pacey

Gilbert J Q Burak

John E Jones

Richard T Schwartz

Wayne Howard Rothschild

Ricky Newsom

Joel Roger Jaffe

Benjamin T Gomez

William Cesare Cesaroni

Richard A Mazur

Joseph J Geib

Shawn Barrett

James V Palermo

Glenn S Gordon

David J Wendell

Marianne L Krbec

Bruce H Blair

Stephen G Rudisill

Kevin M Carrara

Shridhar P Joshi

Charles R Bleich

Gregory J Tastad

Steven J Lee

Maxwell Bell Rothschild

Jeremy K Gill

Diane M Farrell

Jason M Lynch

Robert J Glenn, Iii

Frank E Rodriguez

Scott Alan Massing

Jacob C Greenberg

Eric Michael Pryzby

Gary P Watts

Michael R Bytnar

Scott Michael Minch

Philip B Gelber

Herbert H Hausmann

Jared L Fritts

William M Todd

Kenneth Michael Ross

John P Gibbons

Miguel A Vega

Brian Lee Hahn

Eric T Miner

John M Burica

Peter J Hanchar

Samuel P Amdahl

Wit Chitrapongse

Francisco D Salmeron

Adam J Voracek

Chris W Chudek

Joseph Lane Spina

Anticio T Duke

James P Krol

Eric T Ryan

Erik J Lindahl

Derek S Curran

A coin processing system comprises a rotatable disc including a resilient pad coupled thereto for imparting motion to the plurality of coins, the resilient pad including an outer peripheral edge, and a stationary sorting head. The stationary sorting head includes a lower surface forming a coin path for directing movement of each of the coins, a stripping area of the coin path including at least one stripping surface operable to retain at least one coin when overlapping another coin such that the other coin is separated from the at least one coin by the motion imparted by the rotatable disc, and a queuing area of the coin path that receives the plurality of coins from the stripping area, the queuing area including a beveled surface curving substantially parallel with the outer peripheral edge of the resilient pad to guide the coins in a single file configuration to a discrimination area.

Coin sorting disc with coin flow management features

A resilient coin sorting pad for imparting motion to a plurality of coins is provided, the resilient coin sorting pad designed to be coupled to a rotatable disc of a coin sorter, the resilient coin sorting pad being generally circular and having an outer periphery edge. The resilient coin sorting pad comprises a lower foam layer having a top surface, an upper skin layer coupled to the top surface of the foam layer, and a layer of mesh material. According to some embodiments, the upper skin layer comprises at least one layer of nitrile rubber and the layer of mesh material is nylon fiber mesh. According to some embodiments, the upper skin layer comprises at least two layers of nitrile rubber and the layer of mesh material is positioned between the at least two layers of nitrile rubber.

Coin pad for coin processing system

In some embodiments, in a system comprising a wagering game machine, the wagering gaming machine including a digital camera and a barcode recognition unit, a method includes: detecting, by the digital camera, a barcode within a field of view of the digital camera and capturing a picture of the barcode; via the barcode recognition unit, decoding the barcode to produce decoded barcode data; in response to the decoded barcode data representing a desired casino wagering game, determining whether the desired casino wagering game is installed on the wagering game machine; and, if the desired casino wagering game is installed on the wagering game machine, loading, initiating and presenting the desired casino wagering game on an electronic display device of the wagering game machine.

Transferring awards via optical machine readable data representation images

In some embodiments, a method includes: requesting, from a player at the gaming machine, player account credentials associated with the player; receiving, at the gaming machine, the player account credentials, wherein the player account credentials are associated with a player's account on the account server and enable linking game play on the gaming machine to the player's account, and wherein the player account credentials are provided to the player's mobile phone in response to joining a players club prior to detection of the initiation event; transmitting, via the gaming machine, the player account credentials to the account server; receiving, from the account server, validation of the player account credentials based on comparing the received player account credentials with credentials stored on the account server; upon receipt of the validation, linking a wagering game session on the gaming machine with the player account.

According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a resilient coin sorting pad for imparting motion to a plurality of coins is provided, the resilient pad designed to be coupled to a rotatable disc of a coin sorter, the resilient pad being generally circular and having an outer periphery edge. The resilient pad comprises a lower foam layer having a top surface, an upper skin layer coupled to the top surface of the foam layer, and a layer of mesh material. According to some embodiments, the upper skin layer comprises at least one layer of nitrile rubber and the layer of mesh material is nylon fiber mesh. According to some embodiments, the upper skin layer comprises at least two layers of nitrile rubber and the layer of mesh material is positioned between the at least two layers of nitrile rubber.

According to some embodiments, a coin chute for receiving coins exiting from a coin sorting system comprising a rotatable disc for imparting motion to the plurality of coins, a stationary sorting head having a lower surface generally parallel to and spaced slightly away from the resilient pad, the lower surface forming a coin path for directing the movement of each of the coins, and a reject slot, wherein coins exiting the reject slot travel in a first generally horizontal direction is provided. The coin chute comprises a lower tapered surface having a generally funnel shape having a larger perimeter at its top than near its bottom; and an upper generally vertical wall having an angled portion at an angle from the first horizontal direction coins exit the reject slot, the portion being positioned such that coins exiting the reject slot contact the angled portion and are directed in a generally horizontal second direction.

Coin sorting system coin chute

A vehicle configured to move through a network of interconnected tubes includes a body, a motor, a motorized wheel, a biasing assembly, and a first element. The motorized wheel directly engages an inner surface of the tubes. The biasing assembly causes the motorized wheel to maintain continuous contact with the inner surface of the tubes during operation. A waist of the vehicle is constrained by an inner diameter (D) of the curved tube, a radius of curvature (R) of the curved tube, and a length (L) of the wheelbase of the vehicle. The waist of the body is sized such that the vehicle can freely move within any of the tubes without getting stuck therein.

Autonomous, gravity-assisted motorized racer configured to travel through non-straight tube segments

According to some embodiments, a coin processing system for processing a plurality of coins, comprises a rotatable disc having a resilient pad coupled thereto for imparting motion to the plurality of coins, the resilient pad being generally circular and having an outer periphery edge, a center, and an upper surface. The system further comprises a stationary sorting head having a lower surface generally parallel to and spaced slightly away from the resilient pad, the lower surface forming a coin path for directing the movement of each of the coins past a coin re-gauging area. The re-gauging area comprises a gauging block, a lower surface, and an elevated surface. The rotation of the pad drives radial outward edges of the coins into contact with the gauging block. The elevated surface is positioned radially inward of a portion of the lower surface and the gauging block is positioned radially outward of the portion of the lower surface. When the coins contact the gauging block the coins are pressed by the pad upward toward the sorting head such that the radially inner edges of the coins are pressed into the elevated surface and a portion of the coins contacts a portion of the lower surface whereby the coins contact the gauging block in a radial outward downward tilted manner. The gauging block has a gauging wall having an upstream end and a downstream end, the downstream end of the gauging wall being positioned radially closer to the center of the pad than the upstream end of the gauging wall. The rotation of the pad drives the coins downstream along a gauging wall of the gauging block whereby the outer edges of the coins becomes radially aligned and wherein the coins are driven along the gauging wall in a radial outward downward tilted manner with the radially inward, lower edges of the coins being above the upper surface of the pad.

Coin sorting head and coin processing system using the same

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James M Rasmussen