DE8706212U1 - Skill game device - Google Patents

Description

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Skill games are used to entertain individuals and to hold sporting and entertainment competitions for several participants.

Possible locations include gaming arcades or restaurants. Common examples include pinball machines or, more recently, electrically controlled amusement machines.

A variety of mechanical devices such as slingshots and throwing devices are known from earlier times, all of which served the purpose of entertainment through games of skill.

The latter machines had a disadvantage in that they had a more or less rigid sequence of steps, which offered little variation on one and the same machine. The electronic entertainment machines of recent times allow for a variety of game system variants, but they distance the player decisively from the result of a directly skill-based gaming experience, as was the case with the mechanical skill machines that could be operated directly by hand.

A compromise is the so-called pinball machine, which combines the components of mechanical skill and electrical game control.

However, due to their size, these devices are rarely or not at all suitable for installation in restaurants.

Especially in the so-called pub environment with cramped spaces, there is an audience looking for entertainment who wants to test their own skills in solo play or in competition with others.

It is therefore the object of the invention to design a game of skill that is designed as a wall-mounted device to save space, the components of a mechanism that requires skill and can be controlled directly by the player with the control technology

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Advantages of electronics and thus enables the programming of different game system combinations*

Figure 1 shows the top view of the device; while Figure 2 shows a vertical section perpendicular to the top view.

The device consists of a conventional wall-mounted housing (1) as known from gaming machines, for example. A mechanical firing mechanism (3) is installed below the front panel (2), which is shown here as a self-contained unit (3). It essentially consists of a thumb lever (31), striking spring (32), striking lever (33) and damping spring (34). By pulling back the thumb lever (31), the striking spring (32) is tensioned. After releasing it, the striking lever (33) shoots forwards and hits the striking coin (4) via the damping spring (34), which, depending on the intensity of the impulse, is thrown into the circular path (6) via the tangential inlet section (5). The circular path (6) is designed as a shape-reproducible cut-out in the central panel (7) of the device and is arranged directly and visibly behind the glass front panel (2) of the device. The coin (4) slides on the rear panel (8) of the device.

As long as the radial forces predominate during the coin acceleration generated by the impulse, the coin (4) moves along the circular path (6). It leaves this path in a ballistic path as the influence of the gravitational force increases.

To improve the smooth movement of the coin, which can be largely predetermined by the skill of the player, before it detaches itself from the circular path (6) due to gravity, it is recommended to insert a guide wire (9) which is adapted to the geometric shape of (5) and (6) without kinks.

After detaching from the circular path (6), the coin (4) travels along the ballistic trajectory described above into the target device (10). This preferably consists of a disk (101) in the shape of a crown, which is attached to the rear wall (8).

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with conductive tracks (102)* which are preferably designed as crown teeth as well as target openings (103) in the form of DUROTIT fitting openings for the coin in the rear panel (8).

After the coin has passed through one of the target openings (103), it slides through one of the guide channels (11) cut into the rear wall (8) behind the target opening onto one of the busbars (12). The coin moves on a plane that lies within the rear wall disc (8). This sliding plane is closed at the front by the crown disc (101) and at the back by the cover disc (13).

The busbars (12) are inclined towards the center of the crown disk (101) and enable the coin to roll into an upper waiting position (14) located in the center of the crown disk and covered by it, in which the coin is held by controllable locking pin magnets (15).

When the locking pins are released, the coin returns to the original plane of circular motion through an output opening (16) and is picked up by a second lower waiting position (&Idigr;7) with locking pin magnets (15) - this time, however, visible to the player through the front window (2).

Only when the locking pin magnets (15) are released from the second, lower waiting position (17) does the coin (4) slide back into the presentation position for the mechanical firing device (3). When the coin is fired, it is circulated again as described -

It is evident that the coin has to make movements perpendicular to the front of the device during its rotation, which can lead to disruptions in the process. It has been shown that guide springs (18) - preferably mounted as cross-member-shaped elements above the openings (103) and (16) as shown in Figure 2 - ensure that the coin runs smoothly.

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When the coin (4) passes through one of the guide channels (Ii), the reflection light barrier located there

(19) generates a pulse that is transmitted to the electronic device control

(20) is supplied.

By means of target display indicators (21) located above the target openings (103), the programmable control (20) displays the value, sequence and execution time restrictions of the individual targets; Displays (22) register point results for one or optionally two players. The corresponding displays (221) relate to

I the gaming credit.

I A selection button (23) must be pressed before the game begins

'■ and signals to the controller whether one or two players are

\ game. Pressing the display button (24) means

1 player change message to the controller within a game

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j It is easy to see that the concept described above

\ of a skill game device by means of a program-

1 adjustable control (20) a variety of game system variants

I permits:

I Regarding the two waiting positions (14) and (17), for example,

1 the possibility of a two-coin circulation, in which coin II. goes into I hard position (17) after coin I. has been re-presented in front of f the mechanical launching device.

j Different coin designs and associated, 1 different ballistic behavior include additional I possibilities for game variation, Figure 3: Different coins.

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The skill game device also has a risk device (25) in which players can subject the points they have won to a random risk: "DOUBLE or NOTHING".

The decision is made by a random generator (201), which, along with counters (202) and timers (203), is part of the electronic control system (20).

The risk is activated via the set buttons (251) and the execution button (252).

The displays for this are: POINTS SCORED (253) and RESULT

The previously described design of the skill game device with coin-punching movement on and inside the rear wall and the resulting transverse movement perpendicular to the front panel surface is necessary in order to be able to use a crown panel (101) with a recognizable material thickness, e.g. made of polished or chrome-plated steel, for aesthetic design reasons. The plastic effect is perceived as aesthetic. If this desired effect is dispensed with, it is of course obvious in the interests of a simplified design to insert the crown panel as shown in Figure 4 as a film (300) or print between the individual panels of the front panel (2), which is now designed as a double panel (301) and (302).

In this way, the coins circulate without any transverse movement only on the back wall in one plane.

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Claims (11)

&iacgr;&eegr; Utility model application: GgSCHlCKLlChKEITS-SPIELGERAT Claims: 1. Skill game device with wall-mounted housing for installation in gaming halls, restaurants and other installation locations, consisting of a manually operated, mechanical launching device, a coin, a circular coin track and a target device, characterized in that a coin striking device which acts purely mechanically by means of spring pressure and can be operated directly by the player is equipped with a programmable, electronic control (20) for controlling the target opening (103) cut out in different ways, that the target is displayed by illuminated target display devices (21) above the target openings (103), hits achieved are registered by means of reflection light barriers (19) attached to the target openings (103) and are displayed in digital form by the result displays (22) embedded in the front of the device. 2. Skill game device as above, characterized in that the electronic control (C20) has a random generator which controls the risk device (25) embedded in the front of the housing, which consists of bet and result displays and counters and enables the player to subject the points won by means of the bet button (251) and the execution button (252) to a doubling or nothing risk. 3. Skill game device as above, characterized in that the mechanical firing device (3) on the striking lever (33) has a damping spring (34) in the form of an open leaf spring. 4" Skill game device as above, characterized in that the coin run circular track (6) is cut into the central disc (7) with a tangential inlet section (5), and this optionally consists of metallic material or noise-damping plastic or light-conducting plexiglass. 2 - 5. Skill game device as above, characterized in that there is a sliding wire (9) inserted without kinks in the circular path (6) and tangential inlet section (5). 6. Skill game device as above, characterized in that the target openings (103) and the guide tracks (102) as well as the coin dispensing opening (16) are integrated into the spatial form of a crown-shaped disc (101). 7. Skill game device as above, characterized in that guide channels (11) and busbars (12) run inside the rear wall (fr) of the device and are limited at the front by a crown disk (101) and at the rear by a cover disk (13). 8. Skill game device as above, characterized in that guide spring elements (18) are present at the passage points in the coin circulation (target openings (103) and dispensing opening (16)). 9. Skill game device as above, characterized in that the striking jj coin (4) has a specially fixed, geometrically but complicated j. recess (26). 10. Skill game device as above, characterized in that locking pin magnets (15) are present, thereby creating two controllable waiting positions (14) and (17) in the coin circulation. 11. Skill game device as above, characterized in that two identical or different coins are in circulation. 2. Skill game device as above, characterized in that when using the device it can be preselected by means of a selection button (23) whether winning points are to be displayed on 1 or 2 result display devices (22) for 1 or 2 player operation. ,.;: 1.3. Skill game device as above, characterized in that the crown disk (101) is designed as a film or print (300) between the front disk (2) designed as a double disk (301') and (302). (4 t &diams; tiii