RU2561325C1 - Prize attraction - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: games.

SUBSTANCE: prize attraction comprises a podium located in the pavilion, with boxes placed on it, bearing the prize elements. For the attraction of plastic rings are used for throwing on the boxes with the box located inside the ring. The podium is made rotary by the electric drive and stepped in height, with the location of the step of the smaller transverse size on the step of the greater transverse size for formation between the steps of at least one horizontal shelf for placing the boxes. Inside each box there is at least one prize element, and each box is made with at least one translucent or transparent side facing the side of the fencing. The podium fencing is made around the perimeter of the podium and at a distance from it not less than 1 m, which is the distance to throw the ring. The pavilion is a roof mounted on the racks located outside the fencing.

EFFECT: increase in reliability.

6 cl, 4 dwg

Description

The invention relates to entertainment devices and is an attraction for the drawing of prizes.

Prize rides - the most gambling offers in any entertainment center or vacation spot. In fact, this is an exciting game according to the established rules. If the participant manages to achieve the goal, he takes the prize. The reward can be anything - a cute trinket, a soft toy, a box of champagne and other items. There are no restrictions, you can choose prizes in such a way as to motivate visitors of any age to pass an amusing test. For this, those wishing to participate will require agility, accuracy, or strength.

Thus, an attraction is known comprising a carcass, prize positioning means and a means of holding them, characterized in that it is equipped with at least two prize holding means configured to position prizes in the attraction space, in the form of rods provided with releasable grips at the end made with the possibility of fixing on a separate prize, while the ends of the rods with grippers are distributed over the area of the attraction, and at least part of the length of the free ends of the rods is closed from the observation of the user, who the free ends of the rods are accessible to the rum (RU 128123, A63G 31/00, publ. 05.20.2013).

The operation of the attraction is arranged so that the user of the attraction, hoping to receive a prize, for example, the most valuable for him, selects one of the many rods that go to the outside of the attraction frame, pulls (or pulls) this rod. As a result, the carbine, the detachable grip of which is attached to one of the prizes, rises to a conical hole. Here, the collar presses on the upper part of the detachable grip, which leads to its expansion and release from holding the prize, which under the influence of gravity falls down. The entertaining effect is enhanced by the fact that it is impossible to predict what craving for which prize belongs, and thereby the user checks how lucky he is to win the one of the presented prizes, the value of which is higher than the others.

Such stationary rides are intended for use indoors, as they are a complex technical device. But such attractions have lost their attractiveness due to the complexity of the prize extraction process and sometimes due to the lengthiness of this process. The user does not see the mechanics of the apparatus and acts essentially at random, that is, it gives the apparatus the right to work in the process of obtaining a prize instead of the user having done it. Psychologically, this does not always suit the user and does not show his abilities. Currently, such attractions are installed in supermarkets and attract only children.

Almost every prize attraction has a little "secret". Otherwise, it would be too simple and boring for the guests to win prizes, and the owners would not wait for the profit. Suppose there can be quite small targets in the dash, which are difficult to hit. In banks that need to be knocked down, the center of gravity is slightly shifted. The attraction basketball hoop may be slightly smaller than the standard. This fuels interest even more, a crowd of curious gathers around and constantly there are daredevils eager to prove that they will succeed. Some really succeed, otherwise people would quickly lose interest in such entertainment.

Among the most popular prize attractions you can safely rank the shooting range of any type: crossbow, pneumatic, "hit the cans". If you study the competition and install this attraction in a suitable place (which can be anything: a promenade, a park, an area for holding City Day, etc.), it will pay off in a few months.

The prize basketball and darts were no less popular with visitors. One of the variants of the last game is “Balls” (“Balls-Lopariki”). A frame with cells is installed on a bright stand, in each there is an inflatable balloon, into which you need to get from a certain distance, about 2 meters. To pick up the prize, the participant will have to burst 7 balls, just so many darts in his hands. A safer variety - the attraction "Angry Birds", created by analogy with the popular computer game. Here they will provide a chance to shoot soft toys from a giant slingshot and defeat the fortress with pigs.

Such prize rides are performed in trailers or in specially mounted pavilions, therefore these rides are placed only in parks or in recreation areas, that is, in open places of mass visiting of people for recreation and entertainment.

So the prize attraction “Kolzebros Park Riviera” is located in the Riviera Park in Sochi (information about this attraction is available on the Park Riviera official website of Park Riviera company on the Internet at: http: // www. park-riviera.ru/att/prizovoi-attraktsion, 2013) (adopted as a prototype). This attraction is a small pavilion with an open wall (the wall closes during the closing period of the attraction), forming a front fence with a worktop, forming a counter for placing rings, or fishing rods, or balls. Behind the counter, at the height of the counter, a round podium is placed on which opaque boxes of different heights are placed, each of which has a prize. The algorithm of the game is that the user must get exactly into the prize itself and knock it down. If hit, the prize is considered won.

The disadvantage of this attraction is its size, execution primitivism and poor user accessibility.

The algorithm for obtaining winnings to a minimum is simple: you need to hit the target once or several times. This simplicity is a psychological system of magnetic attraction for a large number of people who want a simple and easy prize. Calculation of human psychology and behavior peculiarities or the situation at the moment the user is in the visibility range of the attraction leads to the fact that at a low ticket price the user tries to get a prize based on his own abilities: accuracy, strength and dexterity. This is the calculation of psychology: one failure is not a loss, it must be repeated again. This is the basis for the commercial use of prize machines: the number of failures significantly exceeds the number of hits.

But you can use such attractions only during the holidays or on weekends. And this limits the possibilities of prize attractions in terms of reaching users.

The present invention is aimed at achieving a technical result, which consists in complicating the conditions for obtaining a win by reducing the distance to 1 m between the client throwing the ring and the location of the prize due to the rotation of the podium with prizes and including the influence of air mass on the flight path of the ring.

The specified technical result is achieved in that the prize attraction containing a podium located in the pavilion with boxes placed on it carrying prize elements, as well as a fence at the podium located at a throw distance from it, is equipped with plastic rings for throwing on the boxes with the box inside rings, the podium is made rotating from the electric drive and stepwise in height in shape, with a step of a smaller transverse dimension being placed on a step of a larger transverse dimension to form between in fines of at least one horizontal shelf for placing boxes, each of which contains at least one prize element and each of which is made with at least one transparent or transparent side facing the fence, the fence is made along the perimeter of the podium and at a distance from it is not less than 1 m, and the pavilion is a roof mounted on racks located outside the fence.

Moreover, each stage of the podium can be made with the possibility of rotation in opposite directions. The fence can be made in the form of interconnected sashes, used when opening them to form zones for throws of rings in the direction of the boxes.

These features are significant and are interconnected with the formation of a stable set of essential features sufficient to obtain the desired technical result.

The present invention is illustrated by a specific example of execution, which, however, is not the only possible, but clearly demonstrates the possibility of achieving the desired technical result.

In FIG. 1 shows the design of the prize attraction, a general view of the open area;

FIG. 2 is the same as in FIG. 1, in conditions of limited space;

FIG. 3 - position of prizes on a transparent stand;

FIG. 4 is a plan view of an attraction with an open sector of 180 ° access to prizes.

According to the present invention, there is considered a design of a prize attraction intended for working in open areas in parks, on embankments, in crowded centers during holidays, concerts, exhibitions, etc., as well as for placement in large shopping and shopping centers , night clubs, casinos, airports, etc.

In general, the prize attraction is located in the pavilion, which is an integral part of it. Inside the pavilion there is a podium 1 with boxes 2 located on it, carrying prize elements 3 (Figs. 1 and 2).

The podium is made at least two-stage, with the formation on the horizontal shelf of the lower stage and on the platform of the upper stage to place cylindrical, or cubic, or prismatic transparent or transparent boxes 2, the inner cavity of each of which is used to place at least one prize element 3, and which are located at a distance from each other greater than the sum of the two thicknesses of the rings 4, measured in the plane of their diameters. In general, the podium is made rotating from the electric drive and stepwise in height in shape, with a step of a smaller transverse dimension being placed on a step of a larger transverse dimension to form at least one horizontal shelf between the steps to accommodate the boxes. Execution is possible when the box is transparent or transparent (from all sides), but execution is possible in which each box is made with at least one transparent or transparent side facing the fence (for visibility of the prize element).

Rings are used as game elements. The inner size of each of the rings is larger than the transverse size of the box (Fig. 3). These rings are used to throw towards the box and throw on it. If the ring hits the box so that the ring drops around the box (located inside the ring), but does not hang on it or hooks on it, it is considered that a winning throw has been made. Boxes and rings are made of plastic.

Each upper stage of the podium is made smaller in the transverse dimension than the lower unfolded one. In terms of steps, they can be of the same geometric shape, for example, in the form of a circle or a regular polygon.

On the steps of the cone, rectangular and cylindrical boxes made of transparent plexiglass are installed, inside which there are various valuable objects (prizes).

Along the perimeter of the podium and at a distance from it, a fence 5 is made, which can be made of tape (racks with ribbons) or tubular or other design. Throws are made from a distance of at least 1 m from the podium, and therefore the attraction around the entire circumference is separated from the visitors by a light tubular or tape fence. The fence can be made in the form of interconnected flaps 6, used when they are opened to form client zones 7 for throwing rings in the direction of the boxes (Fig. 4).

The podium is made to rotate from the electric drive 8. The entertainment attraction is an electromechanical device in the form of a multi-stage podium rotating around its axis. An embodiment is possible when each step of the podium is rotatable in opposite directions with respect to adjacent steps.

The pavilion is a roof 9 mounted on racks 10 located outside the fence. The roof on light racks is at the same time a bright element of decorative design 11 (dynamic diode illumination), and a place for night storage of valuable prizes.

The attraction is performed both in stationary and in mobile versions. For example, the stationary version has the following dimensions: the diameter of the podium is 240 cm, the diameter of the fence is 480 cm, the diameter of the exclusion zone is about 600 cm, the height of the attraction is 300 cm. The entertaining attraction can be installed in three versions, differing in the size of the sector for throwing: 360 ° / 180 ° / 90 °. Accordingly, the number of visitors to the attraction, who are able to simultaneously make throws from the client area, changes: 10-12 people / 5-6 people / 3-4 people.

The mobile compact mini-installation is designed to work on offsite events. It can be corporate parties, anniversaries, weddings, etc. Simultaneously with the installation, experienced animators come with ready-made programs. This can be, for example, a raffle of gifts-prizes for company employees at the New Year's corporate party or a raffle of fantasies, comic prizes and cash gifts between the team of the bride and groom at a wedding, etc. For this installation, a game concept with reduced complexity, different from the previous types, is used. Guests easily throw rings and win prizes. The lottery is a win-win due to the organizers of the event. Visitors to the attraction purchase plastic rings from the operator and try to throw them on the cylinder. The reward for an accurate throw is an item in the box.

An entertainment attraction compares favorably with standard tenants in shopping and entertainment centers (retail, public catering) in that, due to the known tendency of most people to moderate risk, in order to receive truly valuable prizes, they always gather a large number of interested viewers - potential customers.

The entertainment attraction is definitely interior, as it does not produce loud and annoying noises, it is compact enough, looks beautiful and festive, attracts with expensive and status prizes.

The authors of the concept of the attraction created an effective mathematical model that allows you to establish the optimal ratio of expenses (issuing prizes) and income (selling rings for throws). The statistical data fully confirm the estimated probability of successful throws, which allows the auction organizers to use expensive products (prizes, smartphones, tablets, expensive perfumes, etc.) without prizes, without fear of cost overruns. However, it is precisely due to the value of prizes and the high probability of an accurate throw that the attraction retains a very high level of attractiveness for potential visitors.

Moreover, when creating a prize attraction, the authors proceeded from a simple concept of a person’s psychological confidence that at a distance of 1 m it is impossible not to fall into an object or throw a ring on it whose dimensions exceed the transverse size of the box. And this is true, the small distance of the outstretched arm, limited by the zone between the fence and the podium, creates the illusion that the ring can simply be put on the box. But the client does not take into account when throwing that the podium rotates and this makes adjustments in the angular coordinate of the direction of the throw. With a large distance between the point of the throw and the location of the moving prize, such a correction can be easily taken into account due to the initial high speed of the throw, but at extra long distances only a trained person can correctly assess the position of the moving prize with respect to the start of the throw and to the point of incidence of the ring. This is due to the fact that at small distances of 1 m the initial throw speed should be small, and the ring should be thrown smoothly. This is what determines the commercial gain from using the prize pool. Given that the electric drive can regulate the speed of rotation of the podium or its steps, the task of getting complicated. In addition, as with the well-known models of prize-winning attractions, a secret amendment has been introduced into the design, consisting in the fact that when the boxes rotate between them, flowing air flows are formed, which have a strong effect on the rings at the moment they fall. This is a small correction, but it becomes significant in combination with the fact that the prizes rotate along with the podium. If the prize attraction is located in the supermarket hall, which maintains an ambient temperature of 20 to 25 ° C during the operation of the heating system, it is such an environment that makes it possible to generate air mass flows between the boxes, which in relation to this medium work like fan blades. The fact that the roof is mounted on light racks that open the podium completely is precisely aimed at ensuring that warm air masses have the opportunity to "walk" between the boxes in the podium area. The effect of air correction is enhanced if the rings are not made round in cross section, but in the form of flat rings.

The present invention is industrially applicable and can be manufactured using materials and technologies that are commonly used in the manufacture of amusement rides.

Claims (6)

1. A prize attraction containing a podium located in the pavilion with boxes placed on it carrying prize elements, as well as a fence at the podium located at a throwing distance from it, characterized in that it is equipped with plastic rings for throwing on the boxes with the box inside rings, the podium is made rotating from the electric drive and stepwise in height in shape, with a step of a smaller transverse dimension being placed on a step of a larger transverse dimension to form at least one between the steps horizontal shelf for placing boxes, inside each of which or on the surface of which at least one prize element is placed and each of which is made with at least one transparent or transparent side facing the fence, the fence is made around the perimeter of the podium and at a distance from it not less than 1 m, and the pavilion is a roof mounted on racks located outside the fence. 2. A prize attraction according to claim 1, characterized in that each stage of the podium is rotatable in opposite directions. 3. A prize attraction according to claim 1, characterized in that the fence is made in the form of interconnected flaps used when opening them to form zones for ring tosses towards the boxes. 4. A prize attraction according to claim 1, characterized in that the boxes and rings are made of plastic. 5. A prize attraction according to claim 1, characterized in that the box is made of a cylindrical or cubic or prismatic shape. 6. A prize attraction according to claim 1, characterized in that the boxes are located at a distance from each other greater than the sum of the two thicknesses of the rings measured in the plane of their diameters.

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