GB1352649A - Amusement device - Google Patents

Abstract

1352649 Dice-throwing apparatus TOMY KOGYO CO Ltd 3 July 1972 31061/72 Heading A6H A dice thrower or the like comprises means for moving a cup 18 from side-to-side to shake the dice and means for rotating the cup to eject the dice onto a playing surface. Electrical details. When a button 20 is depressed, a lever on a pivot 42, Fig. 2, moves a contact 44 to complete a circuit through a strip 46 to a battery-driven motor 28. The circuit is maintained by a rotating conductive disc 64 engaging a strip 72 and a strip 70, Fig. 4, projecting from the strip 46. After one revolution, an insulated projection 68 carried round with the disc 64 pushes the contact 72 downwardly and breaks the circuit. Mechanical details: The motor drives an eccentric 80 engaging loosely in a slot in an arm projecting from a pivoted slide 76 carrying the cup 18. During the consequent oscillation, a latch 100 retains the cup with its base seated on the slide 76 until a projection 110, also rotating with the disc 64, engages an arm 98 on a pivoted lever and releases the catch; thus allowing a torsion spring (112) to tip the dice onto the table.