Automatic roulette wheel
AssigneeCammegh Limited
InventorRichard William Cammegh
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Abstract
An automatic roulette wheel 40 in which, at the end of a turn, the ball (a) is ejected from the pocket 13 by a jet of air and moves to the top of the ball track 14. The ball is held against the edge of the ball track and propelled around the ball track by air jets and, after a predetermined time, the air jets are turned off and the ball spirals down the slope into a pocket on the contra-rotating wheel. The process can then be repeated with the directions reversed, kept the same or randomly varied.
Claims25
A gaming apparatus which comprises (i) a stationary base;
- (ii) a wheel having a rotor rotatably mounted on a vertical axis with respect to the base, the rotor having pockets on its periphery into which a ball can be received with each pocket being associated with a number;
- (iii) a peripheral inclined surface concentric with the rotor for receiving a ball rollably thereon wherein the ball will roll into one of the pockets when the ball slows, the said surface comprising a circular, inclined ball track, disposed above, and radially outwardly of the rotor and (iv) a means to propel the ball along the ball track, each pocket having a hole in it and there being at least one air injection means which is connectable to the said hole so that a ball received in a pocket can be ejected from the pocket onto the peripheral inclined surface by air coming out of the hole.
A method for launching a ball from a pocket in a gaming apparatus which comprises (i) a stationary base;
- (ii) a wheel having a rotor rotatably mounted on a vertical axis with respect to the base, the rotor having pockets on its periphery into which a ball can be received with each pocket being associated with a number;
- (iii) a peripheral inclined surface concentric with the rotor for receiving a ball rollably thereon wherein the ball will roll into one of the pockets when the ball slows, the said surface comprising a circular, inclined ball track, disposed above, and radially outwardly of the rotor, the method comprising directing an air jet at the ball from any hole in said each pocket to eject the ball from the pocket, wherein each pocket has a hole and air injection means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.