Patent GB-441359-A (GB)
Title: Amusement device
IPC: G07F17/38
Filed: 1935-04-03
Abstract: 441,359. Coin-freed amusement apparatus. MARGOLITH, M., Hawthorne, California, U.S.A. April 3, 1935, No. 10339. [Class 27] An amusement and vending apparatus allowing the player to use skill in gaining articles displayed in the apparatus comprises a rotatable table 12, Figs. 4 and 5, which is disposed below an aperture 28 in an horizontal partition 21 and on which articles are displayed. After prepayment a pusher 13, in the form of an elephant's head, is moved across the table by mechanism driven from an electric motor 42 to push an article off the table through an aperture in the partition to a delivery shoot 11. A manual control knob 80 is provided for adjusting the lateral position of the pusher thereby governing its direction of movement. At each actuation the table is rotated through one step so that the articles are successively displayed in different positions relatively to the pusher. The pusher depends from a carriage 40 which is moved along a guide rod 36 to deliver an article and back to its initial position by cables attached to the ends of levers 60, 61 rocked by arms 62, 63 on a shaft 43 driven from the motor. Rotation of the knob 80 through a shaft 78, gearing 83, shaft 81, crank 84, and a cable 86 attached to the rear end of the guide rod 36, causes this end of the rod to move laterally in a slot 38 in a supporting bracket 39 and thus vary the direction of movement of the pusher so that the player may try to obtain a particular article. The table 12 which is slightly larger than the aperture 28 is supported by a ball bearing on top of a vertical post 32. A cap 34 attached to the table is provided with ratchet teeth engaged by a pawl 91 on an arm 92 connected by a link 94 to an arm 93 on the shaft 43. The linkage is so disposed that the table is rotated through a step after the pusher 13 has returned to its initial position. Fraud preventing.-To prevent fraud by passing an instrument up through the shoot 11, the top of the shoot is normally closed by a hinged door held in its closed position by a spring 97, Fig. 7, and a latch 98. A lever 100 with a cam end 102 releases the latch and opens the door by engaging cams 99, 103 when the lever is actuated by an arm 104 on the shaft 43. The arm 104 opens the door after the pusher 13 has reached the end of its forward travel. A door 106 pivoted on a vertical axis controls the lower portion of the shoot 11. It is opened after the opening of the door 96 by a lever 109 connected to the door by a chain and actuated by an arm 113 on the shaft 43. The door 106 is related to the circuit of the motor 42 through switches M, N so that the circuit is broken if the door is held in open position. Coin action, mechanical-connection.-A coin is inserted in a slide 54 which is pushed in and then pulled out. During its outward movement a hook 59 thereon, Fig. 7, closes a switch A. At the end of a cycle, an arm 124 on the shaft 43 actuates a lever 120, 121 to open a switch B and stop the motor. Exhibiting coins.-Coins from the slide 54 pass to a shoot 55 where they can be viewed from the outside of the apparatus. They are retained by an escapement 133,134 which releases a coin at each actuation of the machine.