Coin or token operated amusement device
AssigneeThe Seeburg Corporation
InventorsFrancis T. Murphy, Peter Sagan, Martin B. Rosenthal, Alfred R. Ostrowski
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Abstract
The amusement device in which a plurality of symbol bearing wheels are rotated and then stopped, and wherein feelers are then permitted to move toward the axis of rotation to sense the combination of symbols appearing in a straight line. An electrical circuit is provided and operates in response to the position of the feelers and the number of coins or tokens used to determine whether a player has won, and, if so, to what extent that player has won.
Claims7
An amusement device comprising a rotatable wheel shaft, a plurality of wheels, one way clutches independently mounting each wheel on said wheel shaft whereby said wheels may be rotated in one direction when said shaft is rotated in that direction and are free to rotate in the sme direction after said wheel shaft has stopped rotating, each wheel having a plurality of symbols appearing thereon, a plate mounted on each wheel and rotatable therewith, each plate having a plurality of stop means positioned thereon corresponding to various of said symbols on said wheels, a feeler shaft spaced from and coextensive with said wheel shaft, a plurality of feelers, one corresponding to each of said wheels mounted on said feeler shaft for rotation toward said wheel shaft and said stop means, means for stopping the rotation of each wheel sequentially, means for first restraining said feelers from rotation toward said wheel shaft and said stop means and then releasing them whereby said feelers may move into engagement with one of said stop means so that the angular position of each feeler provides an indication of the symbol on its associated wheel appearing in a particular straight line, electrical circuit means including a plurality of sets of contacts, means connected to each of said feelers for closing one pair of contacts in each set of contacts depending upon the angular position of the feeler, and said electrical circuit means including a control means connected to said sets of contacts and operative in the event the combination of symbols appearing in said particular straight line after said wheels have stopped rotating to provide an indication that a player has won.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.