Game device including means simulating release of a ball
AssigneeRecreativus Franco, S.A.
InventorFrancisco B. Rivero
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Abstract
An auxiliary game for incorporation in a slot machine of the type in which winning combinations of a series of different combinations of symbols are controlled electronically to appear in a group of windows causing a prize to be delivered to an operator. The auxilliary game includes a cage carrying numbered lottery balls arranged to rotate and to release a ball into a transparent tube. A simulation of the ball number is arranged by electronic control to show in a window thereby to indicate a consolation prize. Ball release is controlled by a ball escapement mounted at a ball outlet of the cage and operable to release only a single ball from the cage into the tube at one time and to return the ball to the cage during progressive rotation of the cage.
Claims7
A complementary game for electronically controlled slot machines of the type which comprise a cabinet having a front panel;
- a front window located at a top of the front panel;
- a set of small windows extending across the center of the panel below the front window in which capricious symbols are shown, a corresponding set of pushbuttons below said windows, operable respectively to effect voluntary transfer of the symbol appearing in the top window to respective of the windows therebelow to force a winning combination;
- at least one further window adjacent the top window showing forward moves allowing other similar attempts;
- the complementary game being activatable if a player has not obtained a prize in the basic game and a window and button or suitable projection being arranged to indicate the possibility of playing the complementary game;
- the complementary game comprising a drum mounted for rotation in the cabinet;
- numbered balls confined in the drum;
- and,
- means to release a prize ball from the drum for simulation in the front window thereby to indicate the prize.
A complementary game for electronically controlled slot machines of the type which comprise a cabinet having a front panel;
- a front window located at a top of the front panel;
- a set of small windows extending across the center of the panel below the front window in which capricious symbols are shown, a corresponding set of pushbuttons below said windows, operable respectively to effect voluntary tranfer of the symbol appearing in the top window to respective of the windows therebelow to force a winning combination;
- at least one further window adjacent the top window showing forward moves allowing other similar attempts;
- a window and button or suitable projection being arranged to indicate the possibility of playing the complementary game;
- the complementary game comprising a spherical cage rotatably mounted in view of a player above the top window on a horizontal axis extending between two uprights in the cabinet of the slot machine;
- numbered balls confined in the cage;
- an outlet orifice for the balls at a location on the equator of the cage perpendicular to the spin axis;
- a coupling attached to the outlet;
- a ball escapement mounted in the coupling;
- a ball receiving tube connected at one end to the coupling and extending away from the cage toward the top window and being closed at the other free end;
- the escapement comprising means for permitting release only of a single ball from the cage during rotation thereof for simulation in the front window to indicate a prize.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.