PURPOSE: To carry a flat material upward securely without slide-down by providing pressure-contact members for pushing a pair of belt, which pinch a flat material and carry it upward, from the pinching direction to curve the belt over the almost full length of an upward carrying passage.

CONSTITUTION: In an upward carrying device for carrying game medals M for slot machine as a flat material, medals M inside of a main hopper 3 for storing medals recovered from a game island are carried to a sub hopper 4 by a first carrying part A, and next, carried upward to a discharge cylinder 5 through an inclined second carrying part B and a third carrying unit C as an upward carrying part. This third carrying part C is provided with plural pressure-contact members 10, which pressure-contact with a pair of belts 1, 2 for pinching the medals M from the pinching direction to curve both the belts 1, 2 to the upward carrying direction and which are energized by compression springs. These pressure-contact members 10 are arranged continuously over the nearly full length of the upward carrying passage mutually in right and left along the upward carrying direction.