Amusement devices: games – Chance devices
Patent
1995-08-28
1998-05-12
Grieb, William H.
Amusement devices: games
Chance devices
A63F 900
Patent
active
057495769
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a gaming machine preferably operated by coins with features situated on moving carrier means preferably provided with their own drives the relative position of which features to each other at the end of a game with the carrier means standing still decides on win or loss.
Gaming machines of this type with symbols situated on rotary bodies, for example disks, which symbols are brought out of their revolution to a standstill in a random fashion and which in their standstill states show symbol combinations which decide on win or loss, are known in different versions.
The object of the invention is to create a gaming machine which allows a win to be cashed after each step of the game or, on the other hand, to risk a stake or winnings in following game steps.
This object is solved in accordance with the invention with a gaming machine of the type given above in that each carrier means is moved individually one after the other for a time determined by chance or by hand and that after each movement a win is obtained if the features are located in a predetermined position with the carrier means at standstill.
The gaming machine in accordance with the invention puts into practice a simple game idea which consists of the player putting up a stake and the gaming machine only deciding on win or loss in each step of the game. Here, the player can decide after each step of the game whether he is satisfied with any winnings gained or whether he wants to risk these as the stake in the following step of the game. The machine can naturally also be designed in such a way that the player cannot decide after every step whether he wants to continue the game or not, but that the machine necessarily performs several or a predetermined or selectable number of steps of the game.
Moreover, the machine can be provided with different probabilities for a win or a loss in each step of the game. For example, a 50% or even a lower chance of winning can be given.
The game can be designed in such a way that in each step of the game the total winnings won in the previous step of the game are again put up as stakes so that the winnings from the original stake is doubled with each step of the game until final winnings are paid out or everything is lost.
In accordance with an advantageous embodiment of the invention it is provided that the carrier means comprise disks with bearings on the same axes and provided with their own drives which disks are provided with identical boreholes or openings located at a distance to each other on circles with equal diameters or in the case of disks with equal diameters with identical edge grooves located at a distance to one another. If each disk is provided with only one borehole or one edge groove, winnings are obtained if the borehole or the groove of the first disk when brought to a standstill after one revolution is flush with the borehole or edge groove of the second disk. If the boreholes or edge grooves are flush, sight of the third disk is given which then signals a win.
The individual disks can be provided with two or more positions of rest in which these can be brought to a standstill in a random fashion. If only two positions of rest exist, the one will correspond to a win and the other to a loss so that in each step of the game, which consists of the starting and stopping of a disk, a chance of winning of 50% exists.
In accordance with one game variation, a ball or a pin is provided which meshes with flushing boreholes or openings at standstills of the disks. If, therefore, the ball falls through flushing boreholes of disks following after one another after the standstill of a disk, this signals a win. Accordingly, with flush boreholes a pin can penetrate the stack of disks more deeply from one step of the game to the next and so show a win.
In accordance with another advantageous embodiment, it is provided that the carrier means comprises rings supported concentrically which are provided on their annular mantle surfaces with boreholes or openings positioned at distances.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5154420 (1992-10-01), Gutknecht
Heinen Horst
Kawka Martin
Rieck Konrad
Schattauer Jurgen
Grieb William H.
NSM Aktiengesellschaft
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