GB375878A - Apparatus for playing a game of skill - Google Patents

Abstract

375,878. Table games. HEFFORD, H. R., 20, River Mount, Walton-on-Thames. April 7, 1931, No. 10154. [Class 132 (ii).] Apparatus for playing a game of skill comprises a horizontal surface 1 over which coins or discs are propelled by hand or by a spring projector with the object of passing through holes 2, 3 or 4 to fill and discharge the compartments of a rotatable drum 5, electrical means being provided to prevent the illicit discharge of the drum. The centralling arranged holes 2 in the surface communicate directly with the uppermost compartment of the drum by a shoot 6, while the hole 4 situated at the far end of 'the board communicates with the drum through a shoot arranged parallel to the shoot 6 and normally blocked by a stop 13. Should a coin pass through the hole 3 situated at one side of the surface, a lever 7 is rocked to release the drum, which rotates and delivers its contents to the outside of the casing. The rocking of the lever also serves to disable the stop 13 and allow any accumulated coins to pass into that compartment of the drum that has been rotated into the uppermost position. In the event of a metal strip being used to manoeuvre coins into the hole 3, an electrical circuit is completed between a contact 16 and one of two contacts 14, 15 to cause a shutter to be drawn across the hole.