Bonus win system for skill games
OwnerClay Thomas Cacasinventor
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Abstract
A game apparatus is provided comprising a cabinet defining a playing area including a plurality of shelves mounted therein where each of the shelves has disposed thereon a plurality of game pieces. A receiving mechanism is attached to the cabinet for accepting a playing piece. A playing area with one or more holes that allow game pieces to fall through the playing area into a mechanism that collects the game pieces until the weight of the pieces is greater than the counter weight and allowing the rocker arm to rotate and dispense the game pieces into the receiving mechanism or reward the player a prize by another method.
Claims7
A game apparatus comprising a cabinet defining a playing area, means for receiving and accepting or rejecting a playing piece such as a coin or token, means for projecting an accepted playing piece within the playing area, and at least one shelf disposed in a lower portion of the playing area and onto which projected playing pieces may fall after projection with said playing area containing one bonus hole that allows playing pieces to fall through the playing area and are collected by the prize dispensing mechanism, and said shelf being traversed by pusher means which push playing pieces collected thereon towards an edge of the shelf.
A prize dispensing system that consist of container attached to a rod which is attached below the surface of the playing area and has an bolt attached to the opposite end of the rod for the purpose of adding weight and adjusting the amount of playing pieces required to cause the container to rotate in a clockwise direction and dispense the playing pieces in the redemption mechanism.
A prize dispensing system that consists of an electrical device attached below the playing surface to register game pieces that fall thru the bonus hole, an adjustable control board that allows the operator to adjust the number of registered playing pieces required to activate a dispensing device when the desired number of playing pieces has been registered.
A prize dispensing system that consists of a plurality of electrical devices attached below the playing surface to register game pieces that fall thru a plurality of bonus holes, an adjustable control board that allows the operator to adjust for each bonus hole the number of registered playing pieces required to activate a dispensing device when the desired number of playing pieces has been registered.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.