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US 4,303,248 AGranted
Manually directed coin game
OwnerStephen P. Shoemaker, Jr., Foster M. Brashearinventors
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an amusement game wherein coins are dropped onto a flat surface over which a vertical dam is horizontally translated. The vertical dam translates over a portion of the flat surface and will thus drop certain of the accumulated coins over the edge. The coins, as they drop over the edge, are collected in a counting chute to be synchronously counted in a memory which is then synchronously unloaded to vend out a corresponding number of tokens.
Claims3
A token dispensing game device, comprising:
- (a) a first housing supported upon ground and having a top surface aligned in a substantially horizontal plane;
- (b) a second housing wholly enclosing said first housing and being secured to ground separately therefrom, a surface portion of said second housing being transluscent whereby said top surface of said first housing is viewable therethrough;
- (c) a dam disposed upon said first housing and deployed to slidably translate over a portion of said top surface;
- (d) coin dispensing means extending through a lateral surface of said second housing for directing the passage of coins onto said top surface;
- (e) coin receiving means for collecting such coins as are pushed over an edge of said top surface by said dam and for producing sensing signals indicative thereof;
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- (f) token dispensing means connected to receive said sensing signals for dispensing a number of tokens corresponding to the number of coins sensed.
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