Amusement devices: games – Chance devices – Lot mixers and dispensers
Patent
1985-09-05
1986-04-22
Shapiro, Paul E.
Amusement devices: games
Chance devices
Lot mixers and dispensers
273144A, A63F 900
Patent
active
045837368
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for randomly selecting combinations of numbers for lottery-type games of chance. In the preferred embodiment, the invention comprises an adaptor hood which sits on a downsized, bingo-ball blower. The hood includes a lower access hole to receive lightweight numbered balls from an underlying blower chamber in which the balls are blown about; a spring-biased selector arm that normally straddles and blocks the hole, but which can be manually pivoted to allow a ball to pop up the hole and which can then be released to spring back and kick the ball away during its return movement; an adjacent inclined ramp that receives the kicked ball to feed it downwardly; and a clear display chute that catches the balls from the ramp and allows them to be viewed by a user.
To operate the selector, a player pulls a control end of the selector arm that extends beyond the hood. This causes a ball to be blown up into the adaptor hood and trapped under a finger mechanism. Release of the spring-biased selector arm causes a cap end of the arm to kick the selected ball onto the adjacent ramp, whereupon the ball rolls down into the display chute.
The player repeats the movement of the arm until the number of balls in the chamber reaches the desired number of combinations. After he reads the displayed numbers on the selected balls, the player automatically returns the balls into the blower through a re-entry gate.
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Holland Donald S.
Shapiro Paul E.
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