Visual Display Unit

Abstract

The present invention relates to a visual display unit, preferably in the form of a gaming and/or amusement machine, having a unit housing which has a housing door for opening and closing the unit housing, the housing door forming a frame for at least one display screen, the frame limbs of which frame enclose the at least one display screen and delimit a frame cutout. According to the invention, the frame of the housing door has a modular construction and can be assembled in a variable manner from a plurality of frame parts in different configurations, in which the frame has a different number of frame cutouts and/or frame cutouts of different sizes.

1 . A housing-door configuration for opening and closing a housing of a screen device, wherein the housing-door configuration forms a frame for at least one screen, wherein the frame comprises frame legs comprising side legs and/or transverse connecting legs, which frame legs delimit a frame opening, through which the at least one screen is visible, characterized in that the frame has a modular construction and can be assembled from a plurality of frame parts comprising side parts and/or transverse parts in a variable manner in different configurations in which the frame has different numbers of, and/or differently sized, frame openings, wherein the frame parts, on their end portions, comprise mutually compatible connecting means, by way of which a respective frame part can be connected to other ones of the plurality of frame parts, wherein the end portions of respective frames to be connected to one other and which are adjacent in the connected state are formed so as to overlap each other. 
     
     
         2 . The housing-door configuration as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein the connecting means are positioned in mutually corresponding arrangement patterns on the end portions. 
     
     
         3 . The housing-door configuration as set forth in  claim 2 , wherein mutually opposite sides legs and/or transverse connecting legs, which connect the side legs, can be constructed from different numbers of side parts which can be positioned one against the other and/or different numbers of transverse parts which can be positioned one against the other, wherein it is possible to configure different lengths of side leg by virtue of different numbers of, and/or different-length, side parts being positioned one against the other and/or different lengths of transverse connecting leg by virtue of different numbers of, and/or different-length, transverse parts being positioned one against the other. 
     
     
         4 . The housing-door configuration as set forth in  claim 3 , wherein the side legs are oriented in an upright state and the transverse legs are oriented horizontally. 
     
     
         5 . The housing-door configuration as set forth in  claim 4 , wherein the frame parts comprise mutually opposite side parts, to the end portions of which can be connected optionally a further side part or a transverse connecting part. 
     
     
         6 . The housing-door configuration as set forth in  claim 5 , wherein one of the side parts can have connected to it a transverse termination part or an intermediate transverse part together with one of the further side parts, wherein the aforementioned intermediate transverse parts have connecting means for connection to two of the side parts positioned one against the other and the aforementioned transverse termination parts have connecting means for connection to one of the side parts. 
     
     
         7 . The housing-door configuration as set forth in  claim 6 , wherein the connecting means of the transverse connection parts and the intermediate transverse parts cover over the side parts. 
     
     
         8 . The housing-door configuration as set forth in  claim 6 , wherein two side parts positioned successively one against the other are retained one against the other by an intermediate transverse part. 
     
     
         9 . The housing-door configuration as as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein the side legs of the frame, said side legs being assembled from a plurality of side parts, and the transverse connecting legs have a longitudinal axis which is curved in arcuate form. 
     
     
         10 . The housing-door configuration as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein the frame has a plurality of frame openings inclined at an obtuse angle in relation to one another and surrounds a plurality of screens which are inclined at an obtuse angle in relation to one another and are arranged one above the other or one beside the other. 
     
     
         11 . The housing-door configuration as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein the at least one screen is fastened on the frame and can be moved up and down together with the housing-door configuration. 
     
     
         12 . The housing-door configuration as as set forth in  claim 11 , wherein the at least one screen can be fastened on a rear side of the frame and the frame at least partially covers a front-side peripheral strip of the screen. 
     
     
         13 . The housing-door configuration as set forth in  claim 12 , wherein the frame has retaining crosspieces which project from a rear side of the frame, and engage laterally around the at least one screen and can be fixed to the screen. 
     
     
         14 . A screen device comprising a basic housing structure and a housing-door configuration as set forth in  claim 13 , wherein the housing-door configuration is mounted on the basic housing structure such that it can be pivoted about a door-pivoting axis. 
     
     
         15 . The screen device as set forth in  claim 14 , wherein the door-pivoting axis is arranged horizontally on an upper end portion of the housing-door configuration. 
     
     
         16 . The screen device as as set forth in  claim 1 , wherein the screen device is a slot machine and/or amusement and/or betting machine. 
     
     
         17 . A housing of a screen device as set forth in  claim 16 , wherein the device housing comprises a housing door configuration for opening and closing the device housing.