Article dispensing – Cellular magazine type – Conveyer type
Patent
1995-10-19
1997-01-07
Skaggs, H. Grant
Article dispensing
Cellular magazine type
Conveyer type
221 89, 473 1, 473 4, A63D 1500
Patent
active
055908101
ABSTRACT:
A device designed to attach to the side of a pool table. The device includes a plate which screws onto the side of the pool table and has a hole cut out of the center of it. One or more depressible stop members are mounted about the perimeter of the hole in the middle of the plate.
A ticket dispensing wheel is rotatably mounted within the hole. The ticket dispensing wheel has a center aperture, or hub, and the wheel is enclosed by a cover. The cover includes a disc with a sleeve extending perpendicularly from the center thereof. The sleeve is capped on the end of the sleeve opposite the disc so that the cover can be mounted on the pool table. The sleeve fits within the center aperture of the ticket dispensing wheel and the wheel has an opening in the upper portion of it communicating with the axial cavity of the sleeve.
The ticket dispensing wheel is generally pie-shaped and has a thickness proximating the thickness of the axial length of the sleeve. The center aperture of the ticket dispensing wheel mates with and fits over the sleeve and allows the wheel to rotate about the sleeve. Extending radially from the center opening in the wheel are vanes that divide the interior chamber of the wheel into multiple compartments. Slots are provided in the outer perimeter of the wheel, one slot communicating with each compartment of the chamber as created by the radially extending vanes. The compartments of the chamber are each numbered and there are an equal number of cards having corresponding numbers on them. The cards are placed through the appropriately numbered slots into the compartments and as the wheel is turned, the next numbered card will drop through the opening in the sleeve and into the axial cavity of the sleeve to be picked up by a challenger. The challenger will hold that card and will know his order of placement as a result of the number of the card. The next challenger can rotate the wheel through one notching sequence and the next numbered card will drop through the opening into the axial cavity of the sleeve and the challenger can pick up that card and know his order in the challenge ladder.
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Skaggs H. Grant
Waddey, Jr. I. C.
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