AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a debt from becoming impossible to get back by providing a means for recognizing and displaying a usable limited amount at a Pachinko (Japanese pinball game) concerning the account of a credit card with respect to an automatic vending machine renting Pachinko balls or selling rental ball tickets by a credit card. SOLUTION: A ticket machine 1 being the automatic vending machine installed at a Pachinko parlor sells a rental ball ticket (prepaid card by a magnetic card) 3 through the use of the credit card 2. The correctness of the card 2 inserted to an inserting port 11 is inspected and the debt setting of a designated amount is executed from the account of the card 2 whose correctness is inspected to eject the rental ball tickets equivalent to the amount. In this case, as information on a maximum usable amount is recorded in the record medium 21 of the card 2, the maximum usable amount at the Pachicnko game concerning the account is read by a credit card receiving and reading device to be recognized by a CPU and then the maximum amount is displayed on a display 12.