Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Target
Patent
1983-01-07
1984-12-11
Oechsle, Anton O.
Amusement devices: games
Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...
Target
273379, 273399, A63F 902, G07F 1738
Patent
active
044874146
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a slot machine comprising a vertical gambling panel which forms a plane of movement for coins or similar flat, rolling tokens and which is provided with a plurality of prize sensors located in the plane of movement, a hitting means adjacent the plane of movement of the gambling panel, an inserting means for stakes and a pay-out mechanism.
Slot machines of this type have been used for years in various public locations. Their operation is based upon the principle that a coin dropped through the inserting means into the hitting means has by actuation of the hitting means been hit along the front surface of the gambling panel. The player tries to hit the coin so that it passes through a prize opening in the gambling panel to the back side of the gambling panel where it acts on the pay-out mechanism for dispensing prize coins out of the slot machine. A coin that has not reached a prize opening drops along the front surface of the gambling panel into a coin store, from which said prize coins are dispensed, or into a cashbox.
In this known slot machine a coin inserted expressly into the slot machine is thus actually hit to pass along the gambling panel, and the coins remaining in the gambling panel are thus continuously changed. From this follows that the slot machine will accept as stakes only a coin of a certain value, for example, a 50 penny coin, wherefore the price of the game must always be of the same value as this coin. One further disadvantage is that a coin passing through the prize opening must be transferred from the front side of the gambling panel to the rear side thereof, i.e. it must move in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the coin. This involves the risk that the coin may get stuck when moving from the first plane of movement to a second plane of movement. Still one disadvantage is that the value of the prize must always be equal to the value of said coin to be dropped into the slot machine or a multiple thereof.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a slot machine which avoids the above-mentioned disadvantages. This object is achieved by means of a slot machine according to the invention which is characterized in
that a closed circulating path for gambling coins is formed in the plane of movement of the gambling panel, said path passing through the hitting means, and
that the inserting means for stake coins is connected past the gambling panel to the pay-out mechanism by means of a separate circulating path for stake coins.
The slot machine according to the invention is based on the idea that the same gambling coins continuously circulate in the gambling panel, while stake coins inserted into the slot machine do not at all reach the gambling panel but by-pass said panel into the cashbox or pay-out mechanism of the slot machine. Thus, the gambling coins moving in the gambling panel need not be similar to the stake coins inserted into the slot machine. This provides the possibility of arranging the price of the game independent of the value of the gambling coins in the gambling panel (e.g., 50 pennies) and to set the price of the game as the sum of stake coins of different values, e.g., 1.20 marks. Because no gambling coins need be removed from the gambling panel, there is also no need to displace the gambling coins in the axial direction. Instead, said coins always move in one and the same plane each in its turn from the hitting means along the same gambling panel and back to the hitting means. In addition, the size of the prize can be set to be independent of the value of the gambling coins circulating in the gambling panel and the size of the prize can be selected to be the sum of stake coins of different values inserted in the machine, e.g., 2.40 marks. Due to such an independence between the coins circulating in the gambling panel and the coins used as stakes the slot machine can be made electronic in which case the various functions are controlled by a microprocessor. In such a slot machine also banknotes can be accepted as stakes in a
REFERENCES:
patent: 1866063 (1932-07-01), Sloan
patent: 2847221 (1958-08-01), Collins et al.
patent: 4303248 (1981-12-01), Shoemaker
K/a/ rkk/a/ inen Martti
Martti Lauri
Oechsle Anton O.
Raha-Automaattiyhdistys
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