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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine installation island provided with a pumping device wherein pumping by the pumping apparatus is not badly influenced even when a pumped game medium is left without flowing from a flowing port. SOLUTION: The island is provided with the pumping device 325 for pumping the game medium housed in the bucket 333 by circulating and driving an endless turning member 334 to which plurality of buckets 333 capable of housing game mediums are installed facing a longitudinal direction. The pumping device 325 is provided with: a flowing-in port 337 for allowing the game medium to flow into the bucket 333; a flowing-out port 338 for allowing the game medium pumped by the bucket 333 to flow out from the bucket 333; an auxiliary flowing-out port 350 which is provided on the down stream side of the moving direction of the bucket 333 compared with the flowing-out port 338 and which makes the game medium remaining in the bucket 333 without flowing out through the flowing-out port 338 flow out of this bucket 333. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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