Patent ID: 7059968

Claim:
A topper mechanism for combination with a gaming device comprising a dual X-Y rack system having an actuator powered by electric motors to provide movement of said actuator on X-Y axes, a ceramic driving magnet supported on said actuator, a vertical transparent sheet in front of said rack system to provide an arted screed formed on its back surface and providing an artistic display field in which selected different cue values are disposed in spaced apart relation in the display field, a secondary follower magnet on the front side of said transparent sheet, said follower magnet being arted to form a pointer/director movable on the front face of the arted display field, said driving and follower magnets being magnetically linked in a master/slave relation to move in unison relative to said display field, and programmable control means regulating said dual rack system in synchronism with the gaming device so that the player may be automatically cued as to values, or features and places the player will be awarded while operating the gaming device, said arted screen and said X-Y rack system being disposed with said pointer/director out of the player's sight during normal game play, and said programmable control means being pre-set to move said pointer/director into said artistic display field to designate a value to start a topper bonus round of play.