Automated dice tossing apparatus
AssigneeEvolution Malta Limited
InventorRaivis Rengelis
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an automated dice tossing apparatus comprising; a main body portion; an elongated toss-arm, having a proximal portion rotatably attached to said main body portion about a pivot axis, a vessel mounted to a distal portion of said toss-arm for holding at least one die; a pneumatic actuator configured to, upon actuation, move the toss-arm about the pivot axis with an ejection force such that at least one die held in the vessel is tossed away from said vessel towards a predefined target area; and control circuitry configured to randomly determine a magnitude of the ejection force within a predefined range in order to randomize a set of initial conditions for each actuation of the pneumatic actuator.
Claims14
An automated dice tossing apparatus comprising;
- a main body portion;
- an elongated toss-arm, having a proximal portion rotatably attached to said main body portion about a pivot axis,
- a vessel mounted to a distal portion of said toss-arm for holding at least one die;
- a pneumatic actuator configured to, upon actuation, move the toss-arm about the pivot axis with an ejection force such that at least one die held in the vessel is tossed away from said vessel towards a predefined target area;
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- control circuitry configured to randomly determine a magnitude of the ejection force within a predefined range in order to randomize a set of initial conditions for each actuation of the pneumatic actuator.
A method for operating an automated dice tossing apparatus, comprising;
- a main body portion;
- an elongated toss-arm, having a proximal portion rotatably attached to said main body portion about a pivot axis, a vessel mounted to a distal portion of said toss-arm holding at least one die and a pneumatic actuator;
- the method comprising the steps of;
- randomly determining a magnitude of the ejection force within a predefined range in order to randomize a set of initial conditions for the actuation of the pneumatic actuator;
- actuating said pneumatic actuator with an ejection force to move the toss-arm about the pivot axis such that at least one die held in the vessel is tossed away from said vessel towards a predefined target area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.