US2043454A - Amusement apparatus - Google Patents

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June 9, 1936. E. THIEL 2,043,454

- AMUSEMENT APPARATUS Filed NOV. 15, 1935 4 Sheets-Sheet l k 75 liiu INVENTOR. l Erich 77129! I l u" j L HISAhORNEYS June 9, 1936. E. THIEL I AMUSEMENT APPARATUS Filed Nov. 15, 1955 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 June ,1 E. THlEL AMUSEMENT APPARATUS Filed Nov. 15, 1955 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 "PAN W/ INVENTOR. 5mm Wm! a 0/14/1 mm HIS ATTORNEYS June 9, 1936. E. Tl-lll. 2,043,454

AMUSEMENT APPARATUS Filed Nov. 15, 1955 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 INVENTOR.

I, Eric/2 Thiel HIS ATTORNEYS Patented June 9, 1936 Nl'iED sTA'rss FIT OFFIQE AMUSEMENT APPARATUS Application November 15, 1935, Serial No. 50,007

11 Claims.

This invention relates to an amusement apparatus.

It is an object of this invention to provide an improved amusement apparatus which is relatively simple and inexpensive in construction and efficient in use.

Other objects of the present invention are: to provide a novel amusement apparatus including a series of group of racing characters which, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, have the form of bicycle riders; to provide a novel mechanism for effecting a simulated racing movement of the said racing characters; to provide a novel device for resetting the score indicators or pointers back into their initial position after each operation thereof; to provide a novel ballactu ated device for advancing the score indicators or pointers circumfcrentially around and relative to an indicia-bearing dial; and to provide a novel device for propelling the balls into engagement with the ball actuating members by which the score indicators or pointers are set in operation.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be understood best by reference to the accompanying drawings showing the preferred form of construction, and in which:

Fig. l is a front elevational View of a preferred form of the new amusement apparatus;

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the same on line 2-2 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a rear elevational view, on line 3--3 in Fig. 2, with the rear wall of the cabinet removed; 7

Fig. 4 is a view on line 4-- l in Fig. 3, partly in section and partly in elevation;

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view on l ne 5-5 in Fig. 3;

'Fig. 6 is a sectional view on line 6-4: in Fig. 5;

Fig. 7 is a top plan view of the driving mechanism embodied in the new apparatus;

Fig. 8 is a detail view of a part of a latch release device embodied in the present invention;

Fig. 9 is a sectional view, on line 9--9 in Fig. 3, of a coin-operated switch embodied in the present invention;

Fig. 10 is a sectional view, on line lilie in Fig. 2, of a selector device embodied in the invention;

Fig. 11 is a sectional view of the selector device, on line lI-H in Fig. 10;

Fig. 12 is a sectional view on line l2-l2 in Fig. 9;

Fig. 13 is a sectional view of a switch mechanism embodied in the invention, on line lit-l3 in Fig. 3;

Fig. 14 is a plan view of one of the ball-actuated switches embodied in the invention; and

Fig. 15 is a diagrammatic view of an electrical circuit embodied in the invention.

A preferred form of the present invention is shown in the drawings, is therein generally indicated at 20, and comprises an upright cabinet 2i which includes a transparent front wall 22. Arranged in the cabinet 2! is a horizontal wall or partition 23 (Fig. 5) and provided in this wall 23 are spaced openings 24. Arranged in the cab inet 2! below each of the openings 24 which are formed in the horizontal wall 23 is a roller 25, these rollers being, in elfect, treadmills.

Mounted upon the horizontal wall or partition 23 is a series of racing devices, each of which is generally indicated at 26; each of these racing devices 26 including a miniature bicycle 2i and a rider or racing character 28 thereon. Each of the miniature bicycles Z'l is mounted upon an upright support 29, these supports 29 being arranged upon the horizontal wall 23, and each of the bicycles 2'! includes a pair of wheels I l8 which bear upon the corresponding rollers 25.

Each of the bicycle riders or racing characters 28 includes a body '9! and pivotally interconnected lug sections 88 and 99, the feet of the leg sections 99 being pivotally connected, as at N30, to the pedals it E, which in turn are operated by the power transmitting belts I02 of the racing devices 28.

The rollers 25 are mounted upon horizontal shafts 30 which are arranged in the cabinet 2| below the horizontal wall 23, and these shafts 3B are operated by a motor 3| through the medium of a conventional driving or power-transmitting mechanism, generally indicated at 32, and which is arranged between the motor 3| and the shafts 30 (Fig. '7).

The motor 3! is arranged in an electrical circuit, which is generally indicated at 33 (Fig. 15) and also embodied in this circuit 33 is a coinoperated switch of conventional design which is generally indicated at 34 (Fig. 12). Associated with the coin-operated switch 34 is a coin slot 35 which is formed in the front wall 36 of the cabinet 2!, and this arrangement is such that when a coin is inserted into the coin slot 35, it will travel, by gravity, down the latter into engagement with the coin-operated switch 34 and thereby close the latter and the circuit 33 to the motor 3| (Fig. 15), thus setting the motor 3! in operation, whereupon the motor 3!, being thus actuated, will act through the medium of the power-transmitting or driving mechanism 32 to rotate the shafts 30 and the rollers 25 carried thereby.

When the rollers 25 are thus rotated, they frictionally engage the wheels 29 of the bicycle 2'! and thereby rotate the latter, whereupon the movable leg sections 98 and 99 are operated through the medium of the belts E52 and pedals I I]! so as to create the illusion that the racing characters 28 are actually driving the bicycles 21, though, of course, the latter are held stationary by their supports 29.

Likewise arranged in the cabinet 2! and operated by the power-transmitting or driving mechanism 32 is a. horizontal shaft 31 (Figs. 5 and 7), and carried by this shaft 31, and spaced at intervals axially therealong, is a series of starshaped cams or ball-propelling members 33 (Fig. 5) it being deemed necessary to show only one of these members 38 and associated devices in detail in the drawings since they are duplicates of each other.

Associated with each of the ball-propelling members 38 is an inclined ball runway or trough 39 (Fig. 5), and extending into each of these ball runways or troughs 39, through a suitable opening or slot formed therein, is the lower end portion 40 of a bal -actuated member or rod 4!, each of these rods 4! having a resilient buffer spring 42 attached thereto (Fig. 5). Arranged in each of the ball runways 39 is a ball 94 (Fig. 5)

Each of the ball-actuated members or rods 4! is pivotally connected, at its upper end (Fig. 5), as at 43, to a link 44, and these links 44 are pivotally mounted between their ends, in the cabinet 2!, as at 45 (Fig. 5).

Attached to and depending from each of the links 44, as at H9, is a link I63 (Figs. 5 and 8), and each of these links I03 is pivotally connected, at 46, to a link 41, these links 41 being pivotally mounted, between their ends, as at 48 (Fig. 3). Pivotally connected, as at 49, to each of the links 41 is a pawl 50, and each of these pawls 56 has a laterally extending arm or pin I3 (Figs. 3 and 5), each of these pins 18 being engageable with the teeth 51 of the ratchet I 94. These ratchets I04 are mounted on shafts 55 which are rotatably journaled (Fig. 5) in a vertical wall 56 of the cabinet 2|.

Likewise mounted on each of the shafts 55 are a ratchet 52 and an indicator or pointer 5?, these indicators or pointers 5'! being movable over the faces of score-indicia-bearing dials 58 which are mounted on the wall 56. Engageable with the teeth of each of the ratchets 52 is the angled upper end portion I I38 of a latch dog I9, these latch dogs 79 being pivotally mounted, as at I69, upon the vertical wall 56 (Fig. 6), and each of the same having a counterweighted lower end portion H by which the angled end portion I68 thereof is urged (counterclockwise, Fig. 6) into engagement with the teeth of the corresponding ratchet 52.

Carried by each of the shafts 55 is a cylindrical block or sheave 54 (Figs. 5 and 6), and each indicator or pointer 57, sheave 54, and ratchet 52 is urged (counterclockwise, Fig. 3) by a tensioned coil spring 53 which is wound about the corresponding sheave or block 54 (Fig. 5).

Carried by and projecting laterally from each of the ratchets 52 is a pin 59, and each of these pins 59 is engageable with an arm 60 of a switch actuating member 6! which is pivotally mounted between its ends, as at 64, in the cabinet 2! (Fig. 14). Associated with each of these switchactuating members 6! are two switches which are generally indicated at 6'2 and 53, respectively (Fig. 14), the switches 62 being arranged in series in the motor circuit 33 (Fig. 15), and the switches 53 being arranged in series in an auxiliary or lamp circuit 86 (Fig. 15) which is associated with the motor circuit 33.

Arranged between each pair of switches 62 and 63 is a switch-actuating member 65 which is pivotally mounted, as at 65, upon a support 67, and each of these switch-actuating members 65 has a pair of spaced arms 68 69 which are engageable respectively with the switches 62 and 63.

Wound about each of the sheaves 54 is a flexible element or cable 16, each of these flexible elements or cables 76 being attached at one end, as at N (Fig. 6) to the corresponding pulley or sheave 54. The other and relatively free end portion of each of the flexible elements or cables I6 is attached to a weight I2 (Fig. 3), and each of these weights (2 is slidably mounted in a vertically extending cylindrical guideway l3 (Fig. 3).

Slidably mounted in the cabinet 29 is a horizontal slide bar I4, and this slide bar 74 has a handle portion 75 which is disposed exteriorly of the cabinet 2!, this slide bar I4 being normally urged into its initial position (as in Fig. 3) by a resetting spring Carried by and depending from the slide bar 74 is a series of spaced arms I6, and each of these arms c6 has a depending finger T! which is engageable with the angled upper end portion !68 of the corresponding latch dog 19 (Fig. 6).

Arranged upon the front wall of the cabinet 2! is a housing H4, and pivotally mounted between its ends, as at 80, in the housing H4 is a selector member 8!, this selector member 8! having a handle portion 82 which is disposed exteriorly of the housing H4 and having an indicator or pointer arm 83 which is movable over a dial 84 (Fig. The selector member 8! has a contact arm 85 which is movable selectively into engagement with a series of stationary contacts 86 which are arranged in the housing H4 (Figs. 10 and these contacts 86 being associated with the switches 63.

Associated with each of the stationary contacts 86 is a signal or score-indicating device in the form of a lamp 8?, and these lamps, together with the stationary contacts 86 and switches 63, are arranged in the auxiliary circuit 88 which is associated with the principal or motor circuit 33 (Fig. 15).

Carried by and depending from the slide bar 74 is an arm H5 (Fig. 13), and this arm H5 is engageable with an end portion H6 of a movable switch contact 89 which is pivotally mounted between its ends, as at 96 (Fig. 13), the lower end portion 9! of this member 89 being urged by a spring 93 into engagement with a stationary contact 92, and this stationary contact 92 and movable contact H689 forming a switch, generally indicated at III, and which is arranged in the motor circuit 33 (Fig. 15).

Mounted in the upper wall H2 of the coin slot 35 (Fig. 12) is a movable coin stopping member I05, and this coin-stopping member I05 has an angled end portion I06 which projects into the coin slot 35 so as to stop a coin therein. Associated with the coin stopping member I05 is an electro-magnet I91 which is arranged in the auxiliary circuit 88 (Fig. 15).

Operation In the use of the present amusement apparatus, the player may select one of the racing characters 28 to win the race by manipulating the selector member 8I--82 so as to dispose the indicator or pointer arm 83 in registration with a preselected one of the indicia on the dial 84 (Fig. 1.0). In this manner the player may make a selection. of the particular racing character 26-41-28 which he picks to win the race which is simulated or represented by the movement of the racing characters 2B-2128.

The player may then close the motor circuit 33 by inserting a coin of the proper denomination, etc., into the coin slot 35, whereupon the said coin, falling by gravity down the slot 35, will engage and close the conventional coin-operated switch 34, the coin being held in the coin slot 35 by the angled end portion I96 of the member I95 (Fig. 12).

When the coin-operated switch 34 is thus closed, by the .action of a coin traveling down the slot 35, the motor circuit 33 is closed, thereby actuating the motor 3|; and when the motor 3| is thus actuated, it acts through the medium of the power-transmitting or driving mechanism 32 to rotate the shafts 30 (counterclockwise, Fig. 5), thereby revolving the rollers 25 (clockwise, Fig. 5), and the rollers 25, which in turn rotate the bicycle wheels 29 (counterclockwise, Fig. 5). This movement of the bicycle wheels 29 is transmitted through the chains I02 and pedals |0I to the movable leg sections 99 and 9B of the riders 91, thereby giving the latter the appearance of movement.

The foregoing operation of the motor 3| and driving mechanism 32 also acts to rotate the shaft 31 and the ball-propelling members 38 thereon (counterclockwise, Fig. 5), and during this operation of the ball-propelling member 38. the same engage the balls 94 (Fig. 5) which normally gravitate to the lower ends of the ball runways 39 (left hand end, as seen in Fig. 5). The balls 94 being thus engaged by the ball-propelling members 38 are propelled up the runways or ramps 39 (left to right, Fig. 5), and depending upon the hazards incidental to the engagement of the members 38 with the balls 94', the balls will be propelled up the runways 39 into engagement with the resilient buifer members 42 which are carried by the rods 4|, thereby pivoting the latter, at 43 (counterclockwise, from full to dotted line position, Fig. 5).

When the rods 4| are thus pivoted (counterclockwise, from full to dotted line position, Fig. 5), the links 44 are correspondingly pivoted, at 45 (counterclockwise, from full'to dotted line po sition, Fig. 5), and this movement of the links 44 causes the same to pivot the links 41, at 48 (counterclockwise, from full to dotted line position, Fig. 3). This movement of the links 41 moves the pins 18, which are carried by the pawls 59, into engagement with the teeth 5| of the ratchets I94, thereby rotating the ratchets 52, sheaves 54, shafts 55, and indicators or pointers 51 a predetermined circumferential distance against the action of the springs 53 (counterclockwise, Fig. 3). This movement of the ratchets I94, shafts 55, and sheaves 54 (counterclockwise, Fig. 3) advances the indicator or pointer arms 5| over the dials 58, tensions the resetting coil springs 53, and winds the flexible elements 10 around the sheaves 54, thereby raising the weights 12 in their guideways 13, for a purpose to be explained hereinafter.

When the ratchets I94 are thus rotated (circumferentially, Fig. 3) by the action of the pawls 59 and pins 18 carried thereby, the pins 59 carried thereby are also moved (counterclockwise, Fig. 3), and the first one of these pins 59 which completes a revolution (counterclockwise, Fig. 3) engages the arm 69 of the corresponding switchactuating member 6 I thereby pivoting the latter, at 64 (clockwise, Fig. 14). This movement of the thus actuated switch-actuating member 95 (clockwise, Fig. 14) causes the arm 95 thereof to engage the arm 69 of the corresponding switchactuating member 65, thereby pivoting the latter, at 66 (counterclockwise, Fig. 14). This movement of the switch-actuating member 55 opens the corresponding switch 98 in the motor circuit 33 (Fig. 15) and closes the corresponding switch 63 (Fig. 14) in the auxiliary circuit 89, thereby opening the motor circuit 33 (Fig. 15). When the motor circuit 33 is thus opened, the motor 3| and the driving or power-transmitting mechanism 32 will stop, whereupon the shafts 39 and 31, rollers 25, bicycle wheels 29, leg elements 98-99, and ball-propelling members 38 will cease to operate.

When one of the switches 63 in the auxiliary lamp circuit 88 is thus closed by the action of the parts 996I--95- 69 (Fig. 14), the auxiliary circuit 89 will be closed if the selector 9|-S3--85 has previously been positioned in engagement withthe stationary contact of the particular switch 63 which is closed by the action of the f corresponding pin 59 andswitch-actuating mom:- ber 39-9I; thereby illuminating the correspon ing sigal lamp 81 (Figs. 5 and 15), and thus indi cating which one of the racing characters 26-41-48, etc., has won the simulated competi tive bicycle race.

'In order to reset the parts into their initial positions after each operation thereof, the slide bar 14 may be pushed inwardly (left to right, Fig. 3), by grasping the handle 15 thereof, thereby moving the slide bar 14 against the action of its resetting spring (Fig. 3). When the resetting slide bar 14 is thus moved inwardly (left to right, Fig. 3), the depending fingers 11 of the arms 19 thereof engage the angled upper end portions I99 of the latch dogs 19 and thereby pivot the latter, at I99, (clockwise, Fig. 6) out of engagement with the teeth of the ratchets 52, whereupon the weights 12 will drop by gravity in their guideways 13. This downward movement of the weights 12 in the guideways 13 causes the flexible elements 19 attached thereto to unwind from the sheaves or pulleys 54, thereby rotating the pulleys 54, ratchets 52 and H14, and pointers 51 back into their initial positions (clockwise, Figs. 3 and 6) and when the slide bar 14 is released, it is returned to its initial position (right to left, Fig. 3) by the action of its resetting spring whereupon the latch dogs 19 are pivoted by the action of their counterweighted end portions H9 (counterclockwise, Fig. 6), thereby moving the angled upper end portions I98 of the latch dogs 19 back into latching engagement with the ratchets 52, thereby latching the ratchets 52 and I94, sheaves or pulleys 54, shafts 55, and indicators 51 against retrograde movement (cloclo wise, Figs. 3 and 16).

When the slide bar 14 is pushed in (left to right, Figs. 3 and 13), the depending arm H5 carried thereby engages the end portion 88 of the switch member 83 and thereby pivots the latter, at 99 (clockwise, Fig. 13), against the action of its resetting spring 93, thereby opening the switch I I l and the motor circuit 33, thereby preventing possible fraudulent operation of the motor 3| and the shafts 30 and 3'! and rollers 25 and ball-propolling devices 38 during the resetting operation.

The ball-actuated rods 4| and links 44 are reset into their intitial positions (as in full lines, Fig. 5) after each operation thereof by the action of gravity.

When the auxiliary circuit 88 is closed, in the manner above set forth, the electro-magnet iil'i is energized, whereupon it attracts the coin-stopping member I05 (from full to dotted line position, Fig. 12), thereby withdrawing the angled end portion H36 of the coin-stopping member I05 out of the coin slot 35 and thus allowing the coin to fall down the coin slot 35 and into the coin receptacle H3.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into efiect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but desire to avail myself of such vari-- ations and modifications as come Within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. In a amusement apparatus, the combination of a cabinet; a miniature racing device mounted in the said cabinet and having a racing character or rider thereon; means for rotating the wheels of said racing device; an indicia-bearing dial stationarily mounted in the said cabinet; an indicator movably mounted in said cabinet for movement over said dial; means for moving said indicator in one direction relative to and over said dial; and means, including a weight movably mounted in said. cabinet for up and down movement, for resetting said indicator back into initial position in a direction opposite to the said firstnamed direction relative to and over said dial.

2. In an amusement apparatus, the combination of: a cabinet; a plurality of miniature bicycles stationarily mounted in said cabinet and each of the same having a racing character or rider thereon; means for rotating the wheels of said bicycles; a plurality of indicia-bearing dials stationarily mounted in the said cabinet; a pluraiity of indicators movably mounted in said cabinet for movement over said dials, there being one of the same for each of said dials, means includind a plurality of balls movably arranged in said cabinet for moving said indicators in one direction relative to and over said dials; and means for resetting said indicators back into initial position in a direction opposite to the said firstnamed direction relative to and over said dials.

3. In an amusement apparatus, the combination of: a cabinet; a plurality of miniature racing devices stationarily mounted in the said cabinet and each including rotatable wheels; means for rotating the wheels of said racing devices; means including an indicator movably mounted in said cabinet for indicating the relative competitive movement of the wheels of each of said devices; and means including a plurality of balls movably arranged in said cabinet for moving said indicators in a direction to indicate the relative competitive movements of said racing devices.

4. In an amusement apparatus, the combination of: a cabinet; a plurality of miniature racing devices stationarily mounted in the said cabinet and each including rotatable wheels; means for rotating the wheels of said racing devices; means including an indicator movably mounted in said cabinet for indicating the relative competitive movements of the wheels of each of said devices; and means including a plurality of balls movably arranged in said cabinet for moving said indicators in a direction to indicate the relative competitive movements of said racing devices.

5. In an amusement apparatus, the combination of: a cabinet; a miniature bicycle in said cabinet including a relatively stationary supporting frame and wheels rotatable relative to said supporting frame; a rider character upon said bicycle and including movable leg elements; means for rotating the wheels of said bicycle and for moving the leg elements of said rider character; an indicator movably mounted in said cabinet for indicating the movements of the wheels of said bicycle and of the leg elements of the said rider character thereon; and means including a ball movably mounted in said cabinet for moving said indicator in a direction to indicate the movements of the wheels of said bicycle.

6. In an amusement apparatus, the combination of a cabinet; a plurality of miniature bicycles in said cabinet each including a relatively stationary supporting frame and wheels rotatable relative to said supporting frame; a rider character upon each of said bicycles and including movable leg elements; means for rotating the wheels of said bicycles and for moving the leg elements of said rider characters; indicators movably mounted in said cabinet for indicating the relative competitive movements of the wheels of each of the said bicycles and of the leg elements of each of the said rider characters thereon; and means including a plurality of balls movably mounted in said cabinet for moving said indicators in a direction to indicate the relative competitive movements of said bicycles.

7. In an amusement apparatus, the combination of: a cabinet; a plurality of miniature bicycles in said cabinet each including a relatively stationary supporting frame and wheels rotatable relative to said supporting frame; a rider character upon each of said bicycles and including movable leg elements; means for rotating the wheels of said bicycles and for moving the leg elements of each of the said rider characters; indicators movably mounted in said cabinet for indicating the relative competitive movements of the wheels of each of the said bicycles and of the leg elements of each of the said rider characters thereon; and means including a plurality of balls movably mounted in said cabinet for moving said indicators in a direction to indicate the relative competitive movements of said bicycles.

8. In an amusement apparatus, the combination of: a cabinet; a plurality of miniature bicycles in said cabinet each including a relatively stationary supporting frame and wheels rotatable relative to said supporting frame; a rider character upon each of said bicycles and including movable leg elements; means including a motor for rotatin the wheels of said bicycles and for moving the leg elements of said rider characters; indicators movably mounted in said cabinet for indicating the relative competitive movements of the wheels of each of the said bicycles and of the leg elements of each of the said rider characters thereon; means including a plurality of balls 75 movably mounted in said cabinet for moving said indicators in a direction to indicate the relative competitive movements of said bicycles; means for selecting a particular one of said bicycles and riders to win the simulated competitive race of the same; and means coacting with the said selecting means to stop the operation of the motor if and when the selecting means is positioned to indicate the winner of the competitive race between said bicycles and riders.

9. In an amusement apparatus, the combination of: a cabinet; a plurality of miniature bicycles in said cabinet each including a relatively stationary supporting frame and wheels rotatable reiative to said supporting frame; a rider character upon each of said bicycles and including movable leg elements; means including a motor for rotating the wheels of said bicycles and for moving the leg elements of said rider characters; indicators movably mounted in said cabinet for indicating the relative competitive movements of the wheels or" the said bicycles and of the leg elements of the said rider characters thereon; means for moving said indicators in a direction to indicate the relative competitive movements of said bicycles; means for selecting a particular one of said bicycles and riders to win the simulated competitive race of the same; means coacting with the said selecting means to stop the operation of the motor if and when the selecting means is positioned to indicate the Winner of the competitive race between said bicycles and riders; a registering device; and means coacting with the said selecting means if and when the same has been positioned to indicate the winner of the race to operate said registering device.

10. In an amusement apparatus, the combination of: a cabinet; a plurality of miniature bicycles in said cabinet each including a relatively stationary supporting frame and Wheels rotatable relative to said supporting frame; a rider character upon each of said bicycles and including movable leg elements; means for rotating the wheels of said bicycles and for moving the leg elements of said rider characters; indicators movably mounted in said cabinet for indicating the relative competitive movements of the wheels of the said bicycles and of the leg elements of the said rider characters thereon; means for moving said indicators in a direction to indicate the relative competitive movements of said bicycles; means for selecting a particular one of said bicycles and riders to win the simulated competitive race of the same; and means coacting with the said selecting means to prevent further operation of the said first-named or rotating means if and when the selecting means is positioned to indicate the par ticular one of said bicycles which wins the aforesaid competitive race. 7

11. In an amusement apparatus, the combination of: a cabinet; a plurality of stationarily mounted miniature competitive racing devices in the said cabinet each including movable elements; means for indicating competitive racing movement of the movable elements of each of said devices including a plurality of indicators movably mounted in said cabinet; and means for moving said indicators into eiTective position including a plurality of inclined ball runways in said cabinet; means for propelling balls up said inclined runways; and means actuated by balls propelled up said runways for operating said indicators.

ERICH THIEL.

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