Amusement devices: games – Physical skill or ability – Game element capture or pick up using manual dexterity
Patent
1997-03-10
1999-01-05
Grieb, William H.
Amusement devices: games
Physical skill or ability
Game element capture or pick up using manual dexterity
273DIG25, A63F 900
Patent
active
058553746
ABSTRACT:
An improved vacuum crane game and method. Multiple prizes are provided on a rotating turntable. A player may control horizontal movement of a vacuum pick-up device positioned above the prize area. The pick up device includes a vacuum head that may be raised and lowered relative to the turntable in a z-direction. The vacuum head is used to pick up one of the prizes using a suction force that is provided by a vacuum pump coupled to the vacuum head by a hose and located away from the vacuum head. In one embodiment, a vacuum sensor in the vacuum head may sense whether a prize is picked up. The pick-up device is moved to a dispenser area and the suction force is removed to allow the prize to fall to a conveyor device, which moves the prize to a dispenser where it is delivered to the player.
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