Patent GB-446712-A (GB)
Title: Game apparatus
IPC: A63F9/00
Filed: 1935-06-27
Abstract: 446,712. Game apparatus. DEHN, F. B., 103, Kingsway, London.-(Miils Novelty Co. ; 4100, Fullerton Avenue, Chicago, U.S.A.) June 27, 1935, No. 18457. [Class 132 (ii)] [See also Group XVIII] The apparatus comprises a casing in which a plurality of sheets, each provided with an array of individual markings, are fed successively to a position beneath a punch board having a series of selective perforations, and fed to a viewing position after they have been punched by a player. The sheets may bear fortune-telling indicia or be marked with instructions which when punched by a player are to be carried out in the playing of a game. In the embodiment described, the feeding of the cards is controlled by known coin-freed. mechanism which also actuates a gum vending mechanism. The cards 22 stacked in a compartment 21 are fed along a fixed plate 20 to the punching position beneath a punch board 52, by a plunger plate 34, horizontally slidable relative to plate 20, and having secured thereto a plate 37 adapted to engage behind and advance the bottom card 22 in the stack during the return movement of the plunger to the position shown in Fig. 2 where it lies beneath the card stack. A masking plate 46, provided with holes corresponding to the holes 53 in the punch board, is held by springs 48 with its holes normally out of line with the holes 53 and is rocked against the action of these springs to bring the holes into alignment by the plunger 34 during its forward stroke. The plunger 34 is reciprocated by projections 64, 65 on a slide 61 coacting with a downturned lug 66 thereon, the slide 61 being rigid with a bar 60 reciprocated by a slide 67 rigid therewith, under the control of known coin-freed mechanism 58. In operation, on pressing in the slide 67, the plunger 34 is advanced to position the card feeding plate 37 behind the card stack and the holes in the masking plate 46 are aligned with the holes 53 in the punch block 52 so that the player may now perforate the card therebeneath with a punch 68. The punch comprises a punching pin 71 adapted to be projected from a casing 69 against the action of a spring 73 by pressing a knob 74 against a flange 75. The plunger 34 is locked in its forward position by a spring latch mechanism 79 adapted to be released to free the plunger for its return stroke by the player pulling a a chain 84 to which the punch 68 is attached. As the player retracts the slide 67 and thereby the plunger 34, the bottom card'22 in the stack is advanced to the punching position and pushes the perforated card before it on to the front part 38 of the plunger 34 where the perforated card is visible through a window 7 until further actuation of the machine when the perforated card falls to the bottom thereof as the plunger 34 is advanced. The card stack may be replaced by a roll of printed or otherwise marked sheets advanced by the coinfreed mechanism. Vending-mechanism. A ball of gum is fed from a magazine 97 to an external receptacle 113 at each actuation of the coin-freed slide 67. Rigid with the bar 60 is a projection 114, which, as the slide 60 is advanced, engages the arm 110 of a spring-biassed pawl 109 carried on a spring-biassed arm 104 pivoted on a shaft 103, to advance a ratchet wheel 102 through one sixth of a revolution. The ratchet wheel is rigid with a disc 100 also pivoted at 103 and has recesses 101 into the top one of which the balls of gum enter by gravity and are conveyed to the external receptacle 113. A detachable casing back 17 locked at 18 is provided for access to the gum magazine and card stack.