A New or Improved Coinfreed Fortune Teller.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 21st Aug., 1899-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Coinfreed Fortune Teller.
I, HENRY JOHN GERARD PESSERS, of No. 45, Skelton Road, Forest Gate, in
the County of Essex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved coinfreed fortune teller, or machine
actuated by the weight and impact of a coin of predetermined value.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct a wheel, the front disc of which
'shows the fifty two cards of a pack, arranged radially so that a fixed pointer
may always indicate one particular card when the revolving wheel comes to rest.
I prefer to indicate upon each card a certain significance as regards fortunes or
the like.
Said wheel may be double, formed by two or more discs connected by a series
of chambers into which a coin may be directed, which, disturbing the equilibrium
of the wheel causes it to rotate. Or I may affix a clock work or electric motor
to a spindle connected to the wheel or disc or wheels or discs carrying the cards
or like signs by suitable toothed or other gearing in any case the coin being
dropped into a suitable receptacle after the necessary impetus is given to the
wheel.
I may also arrange in connection therewith a certain position or positions of
the wheel or disc in which a slide or drawer may be released, giving the operator a
token or the like.
I do not confine myself to the employment of cards as usually made up in
packs, but may use tarots or other suitable marked surfaces.
Dated this 17th day of November 1898
FREDK. WALKER,
73, St. Stephen's Road, Upton Park, London, E.,
Agent for the Applicant.
I, HENRY JOHN GERARD PESSERS, of No. 45, Skelton Road, Forest Gate, in
the County of Essex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:―
My invention relates to a new or improved coinfreed fortune teller, or machine
actuated by the weight and impact of a coin of predetermined value.

page_text: In order that my invention may be clearly understood, I have appended thereto
the accompanying sheet of drawings in which Figure 1 is a front elevation partly
in section, with part of the wheel also in section. Figure 2 is a side elevation,
shown in section, except the wheel, which is in simple elevation. Like letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct a wheel A, the front disc a
of which shows the fifty two cards of an ordinary pack arranged radially as in the
portion shown by a Figure 1. There is only this especial method by which said
cards can be arranged around a disc, and upon each of them may be written some
signification applying to fortune telling. The wheel A is formed by two side
plates or discs.661, joined laterally by a series of plates, forming chambers c. A
coin may be directed into one of these chambers through a slot and guide S,
which disturbing the equilibrium of the wheel A causes it to revolve rapidly,
said coin being delivered into a till drawer or receptacle R. A disc B is swung
loosely on the arbor n of the wheel A, and kept in position by a set screw m
engaging with a groove in said arbor, and a weight or counterpoise keeps B
from revolving, although allowing a slight oscillation. Upon B a pointing figure
is shown, indicating any particular card at which the wheel A may stop when the
momentum imparted by the coin is absorbed. I prefer to mount the arbor n in
a long frictionless bearing & affixed to the back of the case C which encloses the
whole, and has a glass or other transparent front G.
I do not confine myself to the employment of cards, as usually made up in
packs but may use tarots or other suitably marked surfaces.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is;
First. The combination of parts forming a coin freed fortune teller substantially
as and for the purposes herein set forth, and shown by the appended drawings.
Second. In a coinfreed fortune teller the method of arranging the cards of a
pack around a moveable or rotating disc, substantially as herein described and
shown by Figure 1 of the appended drawings.
Third. In a coinfreed fortune teller the combination of a chambered wheel A
having a card faced disc a, mounted upon a spindle n, with a loose disc B con-
trolled by a counter weight w and having a pointer or index marked upon its
face, as described and shown.
Fourth. In a coinfreed fortune teller the method of arranging the parts referred
to in the preceding claim so that a coin passed into a slot S on the exterior of the
covering case C may impart a momentum to the wheel A and cause it to rotate
before said coin is delivered into the receptacle R, substantially as herein
described and shown.
D1 17.
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FREDK. WALKER,
73, St. Stephen's Road, Upton Park, London, E.,
Agent for the Applicant.