Drum halting system for game apparatus
OwnerPhilip J. Rowmaninventor
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Abstract
A housing encloses at least two heavy numeral-carrying drums, visible through a window, the drums rotating in horizontal planes on a vertical axis. Control mechanism, exterior of the housing, is arranged to advance acute-angled, detent halting members within the housing, in a rectilinear path radial to the drums, to enter one of a plurality of obtuse-angled teeth in juxtaposed thin wafer like annular ring gears on the drums to simultaneously halt all of the drums, with the numerals in the window. Each halting member is associated with the ring gears of two adjacent drums. A common yoke actuated by an elongated, push button, Bowden wire connection simultaneously actuates all the halting members. Similar exterior control means may be used to initiate the rotation of the drums within the housing.
Claims1
In a game apparatus of the type having a housing with a window in the wall thereof and at least two numeral carrying drums rotatable in horizontal planes on a fixed vertical axis within said housing for displaying numerals in said window the combination of:
- drum halting means for simultaneously halting all of said drums, without waiting for inertia to halt the same,
- said means comprising juxtaposed, obtuse angled teeth on adjacent said drums and a plurality of halting detents each movable within said housing into engagement with the juxtaposed teeth of each two adjacent said drums to halt the same simultaneously,
- and control mechanism extending from said halting detents to outside said housing, and operable from outside said housing to actuate said halting detents,
- said control mechanism including a common yoke on the exterior of said housing from which said detents extend through the wall of said housing into the interior thereof,
- and an elongated, push button, Bowden wire connection for actuating said common yoke,
- whereby said control mechanism is visible and simple to present a tamper-proof appearance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.