We specially designed the shape and curvature of the lobes so that the lever will be depressed for a little bit longer towards the end, and to a certain height. This allows our depressor to have the ability to release more than 1 marble at a time. When we get lucky, we can get 1-2 marbles out with just one push. But most of the time, we can get about 1 marble out. The PaddleWheel of our machine is also different from other designs you may have seen that just hit 1 marble up at a time.
Out paddlewheel is fully enclose, where marbles are fed into the paddle through the back.
This is great, since our marble depressor releases marbles at such a good rate. Tests have shown that even if the marbles were released 3 times as fast, our paddlewheel would still work even better. The Baffle serves a VERY important role. Initially ,we just had a static piece of sheet metal to direct the marbles down and into the goal. What we found from testing was that with just about any configuration and angle we tried, the marbles were always being deflected back down the ramp.