RU2101765C1 - Lotto game devices for random distribution of game balls - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: drawing lots, entertainment games. SUBSTANCE: device has transparent housing which upper part has tank which bottom is connected through funnel to channels for passing balls. Lower part of housing is designed as linear accumulator shaped as tube or chamfer. Channels are provided by front and back walls of housing and zigzag-shaped walls which provide free rolling of balls down under gravity force. Another claim of invention describes device design in which channels are made from transparent tubes or chamfers which have different length and are shaped in spirals and zigzags. EFFECT: random ball output, simplified design, increased entertainment. 2 cl, 2 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to accessories for games and can be used for raffle of cash and clothing, sports lotteries, as well as a toy.

 Various designs of lottery drum are known.

 The simplest constructions of the lottery drum, such as [1], contain a mixer, in the bottom of which there is a hole in the form of a funnel, which passes into a vertical tube made of a transparent material. Through the tube, marked balls from the mixer are rolled out.

 Another variety of lottery drums [2,3] has means for mixing balls and means for extracting balls one at a time with their presentation to the public. These tools have moving parts (for example, pushers), and therefore, the drive and control system.

 Further development of lottery drums was aimed at improving the mechanism of mixing balls, since the reliability of the randomness of the choice of balls is determined by the thoroughness of their mixing. Such designs include the well-known lottery drum, mixers are made in the form of rotating drums, as well as lottery drum, in which the mixing of the balls is carried out using an air stream.

 So the lottery drum [4] selected for the prototype contains a housing made of two parallel plates, the front of which is made of transparent material. The housing is divided into two parts connected by a narrow channel. In the first part, the balls are mixed with an air stream, and the second part is used to install the balls in columns and rows. This part is divided by parallel plates in such a way that the walls of the body and plates form vertical channels for demonstrating the balls to the public to the public through the front transparent plate of the body.

 After the matrix of vertical channels is completely filled with balls, the latter are held in it using a special device.

 Thus, there is a technical contradiction: the simple designs of the lottery drum [1] are not entertaining, designs that provide for mixing the balls using rotation mechanisms or, as in the prototype, the air flow [4] although they are entertaining, they have a rather complicated structure, moving parts, control systems, etc.

 The basis of the invention is the task of creating a simple design of the lottery drum without moving parts, which clearly demonstrates the randomness of the sequence of choice of balls. The second task, inextricably linked with the first increase in entertainment.

 The problem can be solved by two design options, providing the same result in essentially the same way.

 In the first embodiment, in a lottery drum for randomly distributing game balls, comprising a housing made of transparent material with channels for receiving balls formed by opposite walls of the housing and partitions installed between them according to the invention, a loading hopper is additionally installed in the upper part of the housing, the bottom of which has funnel-shaped outlet openings connected to the channels, while the partitions forming the channels have a zigzag shape of various configurations providing freedom th rolling balls under the force of gravity, and the channel outputs are placed in the lower housing part, designed as a linear drive output to balls having a tubular or trough.

 In the second embodiment, in the lottery drum for random distribution of game balls, comprising a housing with channels for receiving game balls, according to the invention, a loading hopper is additionally installed in the upper part of the housing, the bottom of which has funnel-shaped outlet openings connected to channels made of transparent material in the form of tubes or gutters of various lengths and curved spiral and zigzag with the provision of gravity, and the outputs of the channels are located in the lower part of the housing, made in the form of linear Ithel for outgoing balls having a tubular or trough.

 In FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of a structure; in FIG. 2 - the second option.

 The lottery drum (the first option, Fig. 1) consists of a housing 1, the walls of which are made of transparent material. In the upper part of the casing there is a bunker 2, the bottom of which through funnels 3 is connected to channels 4 for passage of marked balls 5. Channels 4 are formed by the front and rear walls of the casing and zigzag partitions 6. The distance between the partitions forming one channel, the tilt angles of individual sections of the partitions are selected so that the balls slide freely under the action of gravity. The lower part of the body, tapering, goes into the drive 7, ending in a linear section made in the form of a pipe 8 (or gutter).

 In FIG. 2 shows a second embodiment of the lottery drum, in which the hopper 2 is connected through transparent funnels 3 to transparent tubes (lined with gutters) 6. The tubes are curved in a zigzag pattern in the form of spirals, combine different forms of bending in such a way as to ensure free rolling of the balls 5 down into the accumulator 7, ending in linear section 8 (tube or groove).

 If the stiffness of the tubes 6 allows you to support the hopper 2, then they perform the function of the housing, otherwise the hopper 2 is mounted on the supported elements of the housing (not shown in Fig. 2).

 When loading marked balls into the hopper 2, they pass through funnel-shaped outlets 3 into channels formed in a transparent casing or made in the form of transparent tubes, and as they exit the channels, they are arranged in series in the tube 8 of the linear storage device.

 In contrast to the known analogues, in which there are usually two organs: the organ of forced mixing of marked balls and the organ of sequential selection of balls from the mixed mass, in the inventive device for mixing balls as such does not occur. The randomness of the exit sequence of the balls is determined by the length of the curved channels into which the balls also fall randomly from the loading hopper. It is obvious that it is impossible to control the process, firstly, as it is seen through a transparent case (or tubes) that there are no magnets or other controlled devices that slow down the balls, and secondly, even if the balls have different weights, the output sequence balls is a different length of channels.

 The inventive lottery drum combines simplicity of design (lack of moving elements) with the amusement and reliability of the randomness of the selection of the output sequence of marked balls.

Sources of information:
1. The application of Germany 3811011, CL G 07 C 15/00.

 2. Application of France 2699309, cl. G 07 C 15/00.

 3. USSR copyright certificate 791383.

 4. US patent 5050880 (prototype).

Claims (2)

 1. A lottery drum for randomly distributing game balls, comprising a housing made of transparent material with channels for receiving balls formed by opposite walls of the housing and partitions installed between them, characterized in that a loading hopper is additionally installed in the upper part of the housing, the bottom of which has funnel-shaped outlet openings connected to the channels, while the partitions forming the channels have a zigzag shape of various configurations providing free rolling s down by gravity and exits the channels arranged in the lower housing part, designed as a linear drive output to balls having a tubular or trough.  2. A lottery drum for random distribution of game balls, comprising a housing with channels for receiving game balls, characterized in that a loading hopper is additionally installed in the upper part of the housing, the bottom of which has funnel-shaped outlet openings connected to channels made of transparent material in the form of tubes or gutters of various lengths and curved spiral and zigzag with the provision of free rolling of the balls down under the action of gravity, and the outputs of the channels are located in the lower part of the body, made A linear drive for exit balls shaped like a tube or trough.

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