EP0070679A2 - Spiel- und Unterhaltungsgeräte - Google Patents

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EP0070679A2
EP0070679A2 EP82303691A EP82303691A EP0070679A2 EP 0070679 A2 EP0070679 A2 EP 0070679A2 EP 82303691 A EP82303691 A EP 82303691A EP 82303691 A EP82303691 A EP 82303691A EP 0070679 A2 EP0070679 A2 EP 0070679A2
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Collis William Pilkington
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Bell Fruit Manufacturing Co Ltd
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/34—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

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  • This invention relates to coin-freed or token-freed gaming and amusement machines of the general kind known as "fruit machines” or, in certain parts of the world, “poker machines”.
  • fruit machines or, in certain parts of the world, "poker machines”.
  • a number of mechanical drums or reels usually three or four, carrying symbols are set in rotation together and then stopped at random, one after another. If one of a certain group of combinations ("winning combinations") of symbols is displayed in a given position (the "pay-line”) by the reels a prize is awarded, or a credit, or the opportunity for a further game.
  • the multiple pay-lines are mutually interdependent, since the sequence of symbols on each reel is pre-set and so, for example, the presence of a bell symbol on the left-hand reel on the winning line is necessarily linked with the presence of a lemon on the line above and a plum on the line below.
  • the existence or otherwise of a winning combination on the principal pay-line is linked inexorably with whether or not there is one on the or each of the other possible pay-lines.
  • the aim of the present invention is to introduce increased flexibility into the manner of operation of a . fruit machine or similar machine, allowing an increased utilisation of the machine.
  • a gaming machine of the kind in which insertion of a coin or token, or the equivalent play unit, initiates, or releases for subsequent initiation by operation of a button, lever or the like, the playing of a game which comprises the display of a changing array of symbols in a display area, the change ceasing after a period to leave a static array of symbols which, if it represents a prize-winning combination, results in the award of a prize or a credit to the player of the machine, distinguished by the features that the display area carries an array of symbols containing the locations of at least two mutually independent potentially prize-winning combinations of symbols ("pay" lines), each of which is capable of resulting in the award of a prize or credit, independently of the other combination or combinations, the changing of each symbol which takes part in the said combinations being independent of the changing of the other symbols taking part in the combinations, and that means are provided for associating the insertion of separate successive coins, tokens or play units, before initiation of a game, with corresponding said locations of the display area
  • the machine is of basically conventional appearance, and has a video screen 1 forming the display area, a coin input slot 2, a credit display 3, a "start" button 4 and a pay-out receptacle 5 from which the players can collect their winnings.
  • the screen carries, in this particular example, images of three rows of three symbols, making nine in all.
  • the symbols are of the conventional kind, comprising fruit such as lemons, cherries, plums and oranges and the usual special symbols such as bells. Each image changes, separately from all the eight others, in a random manner.
  • each symbol is suddenly wiped out as a whole and instantly replaced by a fresh symbol appearing as a whole
  • buttons 6 On the left of the screen there are three push-buttons 6, each aligned with one of the horizontal rows of images. Pressing of one of these buttons selects the associated line as a pay-line, and at the same time illuminates an associated lamp, which could be formed by the button itself. It also automatically deducts one game credit from the total shown on the credit display 3. Anything from one to three pay-lines can therefore be selected before the start-button 4 is pressed, and it will be noted that they can be selected in any order, and by one player or by three separate players. As soon as the start button is pressed, the images in all nine positions change at random and independently in the manner described, and, also at random, they cease changing and ultimately all display a fixed symbol.
  • buttons 7 To the right of the screen 1 there are three “hold” buttons 7. These behave in a manner similar to conventional "hold” buttons on a mechanical reel machine but whereas conventional "hold” buttons act on a given reel, and therefore by analogy on the whole of a given vertical column of symbols, the buttons act instead on the horizontal rows. Moreover, it is arranged that, instead of holding the symbols in the entire row fixed during a subsequent game, they only hold fixed those two symbols in the row, if any, which are identical at the end of the previous game; then in the subsequent game these two symbols remain fixed and all the other seven change in a random manner.
  • the hold button associated with that row has no effect; its use only arises when two are the same and the "hold” facility gives the user the chance of trying to obtain the same symbol in the remaining image position on that row.
  • the "hold” facility may be offered at random, indicated by illumination of the "hold” button or of an adjacent lamp.
  • the invention is not limited to three rows of three symbols; there could be three rows of four, or four rows of three, or four rows of four, or indeed any convenient array that allows the existence of at least two mutually independent pay-lines to be selected.
  • a video screen instead of a video screen, separate Panoscope optical projectors could be used to project the individual images onto the display area.
  • other forms of video screen for example involving a matrix of electro-luminescent elements, could be used.

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EP0214290A1 (de) * 1985-03-08 1987-03-18 Sigma Enterprises, Incorporated Münzenautomat
EP0687489A1 (de) * 1993-03-04 1995-12-20 Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken Glücksspielautomat
EP0698869A1 (de) * 1994-08-22 1996-02-28 Aristocrat Leisure Industries Pty Ltd Spielautomat mit mehreren Gewinnlinien
EP1262929A1 (de) * 2001-05-21 2002-12-04 Arthur Edward Thomas Ltd Spielautomaten
EP1504428A1 (de) * 2002-05-09 2005-02-09 Waterleaf Limited Spielevorrichtung
AU2012202626B2 (en) * 2008-05-23 2014-09-04 Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited A gaming system and a method of gaming

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DE965365C (de) * 1955-02-25 1957-06-06 Nsm Appbau G M B H Spielautomat mit mehreren Spielstellen und einem diesen gemeinsamen Satz Umlaufkoerper
DE1253500B (de) * 1963-09-17 1967-11-02 Guenter Wulff Appbau Muenz-Spielautomat mit einer Mehrzahl von mit Gewinnsymbolen versehenen Umlaufkoerpern
US3580581A (en) * 1968-12-26 1971-05-25 Raven Electronics Corp Probability-generating system and game for use therewith
DE2527724A1 (de) * 1974-06-24 1976-01-15 Bally Mfg Corp Elektronischer muenzspielautomat
DE2529930B1 (de) * 1975-07-04 1976-12-23 Nsm Appbau Gmbh Kg Spielgeraet
DE2726145A1 (de) * 1977-06-10 1978-12-21 Nsm Apparatebau Gmbh Kg Muenzbetaetigtes spielgeraet

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DE965365C (de) * 1955-02-25 1957-06-06 Nsm Appbau G M B H Spielautomat mit mehreren Spielstellen und einem diesen gemeinsamen Satz Umlaufkoerper
DE1253500B (de) * 1963-09-17 1967-11-02 Guenter Wulff Appbau Muenz-Spielautomat mit einer Mehrzahl von mit Gewinnsymbolen versehenen Umlaufkoerpern
US3580581A (en) * 1968-12-26 1971-05-25 Raven Electronics Corp Probability-generating system and game for use therewith
DE2527724A1 (de) * 1974-06-24 1976-01-15 Bally Mfg Corp Elektronischer muenzspielautomat
DE2529930B1 (de) * 1975-07-04 1976-12-23 Nsm Appbau Gmbh Kg Spielgeraet
DE2726145A1 (de) * 1977-06-10 1978-12-21 Nsm Apparatebau Gmbh Kg Muenzbetaetigtes spielgeraet

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EP0214290A1 (de) * 1985-03-08 1987-03-18 Sigma Enterprises, Incorporated Münzenautomat
EP0214290A4 (de) * 1985-03-08 1988-12-15 Sigma Entpr Inc Münzenautomat.
EP0687489A1 (de) * 1993-03-04 1995-12-20 Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken Glücksspielautomat
EP0687489A4 (de) * 1993-03-04 1996-04-24 Ace Denken Kk Glücksspielautomat
US5653636A (en) * 1993-03-04 1997-08-05 Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken Slot machine using game play media and method for setting the number of game play media to be won
EP0698869A1 (de) * 1994-08-22 1996-02-28 Aristocrat Leisure Industries Pty Ltd Spielautomat mit mehreren Gewinnlinien
EP1262929A1 (de) * 2001-05-21 2002-12-04 Arthur Edward Thomas Ltd Spielautomaten
EP1504428A1 (de) * 2002-05-09 2005-02-09 Waterleaf Limited Spielevorrichtung
EP1504428A4 (de) * 2002-05-09 2006-04-19 Waterleaf Ltd Spielevorrichtung
AU2003222623B2 (en) * 2002-05-09 2007-11-08 Fusion Holdings Limited Gaming apparatus
AU2003222623B8 (en) * 2002-05-09 2009-06-18 Fusion Holdings Limited Gaming apparatus
AU2012202626B2 (en) * 2008-05-23 2014-09-04 Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited A gaming system and a method of gaming

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