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Abstract

A personal convenience unit for use with a gaming machine provides various compartments and amenities that enhance the comfort and convenience of the gaming machine for a patron, thereby enabling and encouraging longer periods of play and greater customer loyalty. The personal convenience unit includes a base unit with at least one interior compartment that is separate from the interior portions of the gaming machine and which is lockable by the patron for securing personal items of the patron. The base unit may have a portion upon which the gaming machine rests, and a portion that extends on the side of the gaming machine. The personal convenience unit includes a personal amenity cabinet, preferably on the side of the gaming machine, which includes an open and recessed compartment to provide convenient access to and concealment of other personal items such as coin cups and the like. An upright backboard extending vertically from the base unit and supports additional amenities, such as a telephone mounting plate and telephone line jack for providing a telephone to the patron, a compartmentalized container for storing smaller personal items, a coin cup holder for holding a supply of empty coin cups and a pull out shelf for holding food, beverages, coin cups and the like. The base unit has a footrest for supporting the feet of a patron seated in front of the gaming machine.

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