Patent GB-683721-A (GB)
Title: A new or improved coin actuated or freed amusement apparatus
IPC: G07F17/34
Filed: 1950-07-04
Abstract: 683,721. Coin freed amusement apparatus: .CATLOW, T. July 4, 1950. No. 16607/50 (Addition to 665;844). Class 27. The constructions of the parent Specification are modified by causing the spinning disc or other indicator to be operated by the action of the coin as it is thrust in. Separate compartments are pro- .vided for the coins retained as a charge for the use of the machine and those returned to the player, and the latter coins are diverted to the corresponding compartments by a pivoted portion of a coin shoot. A simpler mechanism is provided for controlling the detents or other means which prevent a "winning" indication before sufficient coins to form a suitable prize have been delivered, and the means for holding this mechanism out of action to permit the disc or other indicator to move provides a time-delay mechanism. , Returning coins:-As in the first construction described in the parent Specification a playing handle on a shaft 18, Fig. 1, must be turned. against a spring before the machine can be used,. coins being returned to the player when he releases the handle. A cam 68 on the shaft 18 engages a roller 67 on a rocker 63 which is connected by a rod 61 connected at .60 to a linkage 59, 57, 56, 55, Fig. 3, to open and close the pivoted bottom 53 of a coin compartment 15 which receives the coins which are returnable to the player. The player may at any time release the handle to receive the coins in the compartment 15 but a notice on the machine instructs him to do so only when the spinning disc stops with a "winning" sector in register with an index. Insertion of coins, preventing:- A further cam 17, Fig. 1, on the shaft 18 may engage a roller 90 on a guided rod 87 connected to a member 70 carrying a roller 74 which projects into the coin intake shoot 13. The cam 17 is so shaped that when the playing handle is released the member 70 is held against movement about its pivot 71 to admit a coin. Coin action; thrust while being pushed in:- As a coin is inserted through a slot 29, Fig. 1, it pushes aside the roller 74 to tuin the member 70 about its pivot 71 and cause a roller 145 on a limb 146 of the member 70 to engage a portion 144 of a plate 143 on an arm 133 and turn the arm about its pivot 134. The plate 143 is shaped to engage projections 148, 149 on detents 97, 98 (see also, Fig. 6) pivoted at 99 and co-operating with notched wheels 42, 43 on the spindle 39 of the indicator disc so that as the rocking arm 133 turns, the detents 97, 98 are withdrawn to free the indicator disc. After the inserted coin has passed the roller 74 the member 70 is returned by a spring 84 so that a spring urged pawl 77 engages a ratchet wheel 41 on the spindle 39 of the indicator disc to spin it. Games of chance : The arm 133 is connected by a rack and pinion, freewheel 136 and gearing to a flywheel 140 so that after being turned clockwise from the position in Fig. 1 by the insertion of a coin it slowly returns to permit one of the detents 97, 98 to re-engage the corresponding notched wheel 42, or 43 to stop the indicator disc. The wheel 42, Fig. 6, has a notch corresponding to each sector of the indicator disc while the notches corresponding to the "winning" sectors of the disc are omitted from the wheel 43. During the first operation of the machine a cam 105 (Fig. 6) holds the detent 97 off so that the detent 98 and notched wheel 43 stop the disc in a "losing" position. Insertion of a second coin turns the cam 105 and a cam 106, Fig. 1, on the same shaft so that the detent 106 and the detent 97 98 is held off by the cam and wheel 42 may stop the disc in a "winning" or "losing" position. The cams 105, 106 are turned by a ratchet member 113 fixed on the same shaft and formed with teeth 131, 132 engaged by a pawl 127 which is operated through a rocker 128 and the rod 87 each time the member 70 is turned about its pivot 71 by insertion of the first two coins; the ratchet member 113 is shaped so that on insertion of coins beyond the second it is not engaged by the pawl 127. When the playing handle is released the cams 105, 106 and the ratchet member 113 are returned to their initial position by engagement of a pawl 124 connected to the rocker 123 which is rocked by the cam 68 with a pin 126 on the ratchet member 113. The three positions of the shaft 114 are indexed by a roller 118, Fig. 6, urged by a spring biased lever 119 to engage notches 115, 116, 117 in the cam 105. Diverting coins:- The first coin inserted passes down the shoot 13 to a coin box 16, Figs. 1 and 2. The delayed return of the arm 133 from the position to which it is deflected by insertion of a coin causes a pawl 157, Fig. 3, to turn a member 152 to a position in which it permits an arm 154 secured to a hinged portion 48, Fig. 2, of the shoot 13 to rise so that the portion 48 of the shoot may turn about its hinges 49, Fig. 1, to deflect subsequent coins to the compartment 15. When the playing handle is released to return the coins in the compartment 15 to the player a member 161, Fig. 1, fast on a shaft 58 in the linkage for opening the bottom of the compartment engages a roller 162 on the pivoted portion 48 of the coin shoot to return it and its arm 154 to their initial positions. The arm 154 thereby releases the member 152 which is returned by gravity.