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US 6,520,854 B1Granted
Roulette wheel assembly and table arrangement
AssigneeNRC Group Limited
InventorGordon McNally
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AssigneeNRC Group Limited
InventorGordon McNally
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A roulette wheel assembly and table arrangement includes a roulette wheel rotatably mounted in a wheel bowl, and driven by an electric motor. Thirty seven slot compartments are located around the wheel circumference to receive a roulette ball. In operation the wheel is rotated and the slot compartment floor is lowered to allow a ball from the previous game to be thrown outwardly and fall into a ball magazine. A firing breech is opened to allow a ball to enter a firing chamber. On the command, an air blower blows the ball into a firing tube which propels the ball tangentially onto the bowl in the opposite direction to the travel of the wheel. The ball travels across the bowl onto the wheel and finally lands in a compartment. Each player around the table has a betting station giving the betting choices that make up the game.
A roulette wheel assembly for a roulette table arrangement, said roulette wheel assembly comprising a rotatable roulette wheel having a plurality of slot compartments around its circumference, a drive motor to rotate the roulette wheel, a firing mechanism to propel a roulette ball onto the rotating roulette wheel which is shaped so that the ball finally lands in a slot compartment, and return mechanism to return the ball from the slot compartment to the firing mechanism characterized in that the floor of each slot compartment is linearly movable between a raised position to retain the ball in the slot compartment and a lowered position to allow the ball to be received by the return mechanism.
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