US518617A

US518617A - Coin-controlled game apparatus

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Publication number: US518617A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-04-24
Anticipated expiration: 1911-04-24

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H. MATERN. GOIN GONTROLLBD GAME APPARATUS.

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H. MATERN. GOIN GONTROLLBD GAME APPARATUS.

No. 518,617. Patented Apr. 24, 1894.

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GOIN GONTROLLBD GAME APPARATUS. No. 518,617. PatentedApr. 24, 1894.

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HERMAN MATERN, or ALBANY, NEW YORK.

COIN-CONTROLLED GAM E APPARATUS,

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 518,617, dated April 24,1894. Application iiled December 28,1893. i Serial No. 494,980. (No model.)

To CLU whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, HERMAN MATERN, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Coin-Controlled Game Apparatus, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to improvements in. coin-controlled game-apparatus, and it consists ot' the novel construction and arrangement of parts shown in the drawings, described in this specification, and pointed `out in the claims. j

In the accompanying drawings, Which are herein referred to and form part of this specifcation, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my invention inclosed in its casing. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig.` 3 is an enlarged front elevation, withthefrontof the casing removed, and part of the framing broken out, to show underlying parts. Fig. 4 is a sectional detail showing the manner of locking the two parts ot the number wheel together. Fig. 5 is an enlarged rear elevation, with the door of the casing removed, and parts of the `framingbroken out.` Fig. 6 is an enlarged end elevation, with the end of the casing re moved. Fig. 7 is au enlarged partial horizontal section ot Fig. 6 at the line VY Y; and Fig. 8 is an enlarged partial vertical section of Fig. 5 at the line X X.

As represented in the drawings, A designates a casing for inclosing my invention; said casing having in its rearmost side an opening which is closed by a door, 1, and through which access can be obtained to the operative parts of the apparatus.y A drawer, 2, is placed in the lowerpart of the casing A for the purpose of receiving the coins used for operating the apparatus.

B designates a ticket-wheel that is provided with a series of radiallyarranged slots, 3, formed near the periphery of the wheel and are open through both sides of the latter, so that a suitable ticket, when inserted in either of said slots, will project from the opposite faces of the wheel. The wheel B is itted to rotate loosely on a spindle, 4, which normally remainsin a fixed position; a ratch- `et-wheel, 5, secured to said spindle, and a pas l, 6, is arranged to take into the teeth of vided for imparting a rotary `vided `with said ratchet-wheel to prevent said spindle from being rotated in a wrong direction. A volute'spring, 7, having one end secured to the spindle 4 and the opposite end attached to a stud, 8, in the side of the wheel B, is promotion to saidy wheel in the manner hereinafter described. A seriesof spurs, 9, is arranged around the periphery of the wheel B in position to correspond with the slots 8, and a second series of spurs, 10, positioned intermediately to the spurs 9, is arranged independently of the latter around the periphery. The slots and spurs 9 are omitted, as at 1l, from one portion of the wheel B for a purpose hereinafter explained. The spindle t is journaled in a stationary parts of the apparatus.

frame, 12, which also carries other p beneath the wheel B `and is provided with a standing-flange, 13, arranged to engage alternately with the

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9 and 10 of said wheel; one end of said sliding-bar projects through the front of the casing A and is provided with for imparting a a knob, 14, or other means the inner end of sliding motion to said bar;

said sliding-bar 1s bifurcated to form limbs, j 15, which are connected by a cross-bar, 16, to l form an opening, 17, ter explained.

D designates a 18, and having a counterweight receptacle, 19, pivoted to one end of it iu such manner that said receptacle can be maintained in a vertical position torbring a counterweight, 20, directly under the pivots of said receptacle, and said counter-weight is usually/a coin corresponding to the coin used for controlling the operation of the apparatus. lever D carries, on the end opposite to the receptacle 19, a receiver, 21, for the coin for operating the apparatus; said receiver is proan end, 22, which is pivoted to said receiver, as at 23, to adj ust said end, in respect to the opening `through the bottom of fora purpose hereinaftilting-lever, fulcrumed at n The tiltingy the receiver, to adapt the latter for retaining 291,1 www.)

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- E designates `a Veiftcarl amtht "sferectd on` the upper faoollof the din arranged 1 to 4move" 36,`"attaohed v"to t f o is y slsgescw tary k ,creino posite to the, ,placel Lhosogmutal portio `has been yrenrlov phoy ofthe duplexwnumber' a seri'esoffnotches;47

518,617 i i s a spiral and is connected to the shaft 43 means of a belt, 51, but when preferred the entire springmay be made ofl an elastic belt which can be woundaround said shaft in the manner shown, in respect to the belt 51, in Fig. 5. the hold of its controlling mechanism, as hereinafter explained, the resilience of the spring 49 will cause the wheel F to be rotated in the direction indicated by the arrow marked on said wheel in Fig. 5. A ratchet-wheel, 52, is secured to the shaft 43, and a lever, 53, fulcrumed, at 54, is provided with a detent, 55, fitted to take against the teeth of said ratchetwheel and holdthe shaft 43 from being rotated bythe spring 49; the opposite end of the lever 53V is provided with a cam-shaped projection, 56, arranged to lie in the path of movement of a stud, 57, fixed in the side of the wheel l5, so that, when said wheel is rotated into the required position, said stud will take against the projection 56 and depress the detent end of' the lever 53 from the ratchetwheel 52, thereby releasing the shaft 43 from the control of said detent, and i allowing the spring 49 to rotate said shaft and the attached number-wheel until stopped by the friction of the detent 48.

. Attached to the detent 55, is an arm, 58, which bends around the periphery 0f the number-wheel F and forms a shutter, 59, which, when the lever 53 is in its normal posi- `tion, will be interposed between an opening,

60, in the front of the casing A, and the numbers on the number-wheel F, but, when the lever 53 is tilted, to release its detent from the ratchet-wheel 52, said shutter will be thereby carried from a position to close said opening, and the number on said number wheel that is exposed through said opening will be the winning-number]7 and the ticket bearing a corresponding number will become the winning ticketl i G designates a chute through which the coin passes to be deposited in the receiver 21, and said chute is provided with a mouth-piece, 61, that is preferably bent at an angle to the line of the passage through said chute, so that the external orifice of said mouth-piece will be inclined rearwardly from the top of the casing A. For the purpose of adjusting said orifice to suit the different diameters of the coins used for operating my apparatus, an adjustable-screw, 62, is inserted in said mouthpiece and is arranged to be manipulated from the interior of the casing A, so thatit cannot be tampered with from the outside of said casing.

H designates the tickets which are inserted in the slots of the wheel B, and are made sufficiently long to protrude from each side of said wheel. Each of said tickets should bear a number that will correspond to a number on `the number-wheel F, and the numbers should besuccessive, but the tickets need not be inserted in the slots 3 so that their numbers will be in regular rotation.

When the shaft 43 is released from `thedrawer 2.

lilylapparatus is operated in the following i manner: A counter-we1ght, 20, is deposited in the receptacle 21 to correspond to the weight of a coin required to operate the apparatus; if said receptacle contains a coin of' a dierent Weight, the coin is removed by turning over said receptacle and allowing the coin "to drop therefrom through an opening, 63, into Tickets H are inserted into the slots 3, or into as many of said slots as will correspond to the exposed "numbers on the face of the disk 42. The spindle 4 is then turned-by a key or other implement-t0 wind up the spring 7; the shaft 43 is also turned in like manner to wind up the belt `51, and the apparatus will be in condition for operating. A coin of the required weight is then dropped into the chute G and, by falling into the receiver 21, tilts the lever D to carry the flange 34 out of the opening 17 and leave the sliding-bar C free to be slid forward. The wheel B, is held in a stationary position by a spurt) bearing against the standing-liange 13, and by the ticket H--then ready for ejectment from the wheel B bearing against the plates 36 and 37, the sliding-bar C is then pulled outwardly to push the ticket-by` means of the arm `E--partially from its slot in the wheel B, so that the outer end of said ticket will `project from the face of the casing A, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 6. The ticket` is then drawn from the apparatus by hand, and the engaged stud 9 will pass by the inner end of the flange 13, and the wheel B--under the strain of the spring `7will make a partial revolution to bring the succeeding studA 10 into contact with the fiange 13, thereby causing another pause in the movement of the wheel B until the said spur passes the forward end of said iiange and allows said wheel to make another partial revolution, whereby a succeeding spur 9 is brought into engagement with the flange 13; the inward m0vement of the sliding-bar @permitting the spur 10 to pass by the forward end of said ange to effect the last described movement of the wheel B. The forward movement of the sliding-bar C opens the passage in the bottom of the receiver 21, to allow the coin to drop from the latter, and thereby a preponderance of weight is given to the counter-weight 20 to restore the tilting-lever D to its normal position and effect the locking of the sliding-bar C in the manner previously described. When the wheel B has attained a point in its revolution where thelast spur will pass clear of the flange 13 and bring the blank space 11 adjacently to said flange, the stud 57 will engage under the projection 56 and tilt the lever 53 in such manner that the detent 55 will be disengaged from the ratchet-wheel 52, thereby leaving the number-wheel F free to be rotated by the spring 49 5 said wheel will continue to rotate until its momentum is arrested by the detent 48. When the lever 53 is tilted, to release the number-wheel F, the shutter 59 will be moved to uncover the open- IIO ing BOQWhereby the number then opposite said opening will beeXposedat the front of the apparatus. After thek stud 57 has passed by the projectiony 56 the lever will tilt back `into its normal position and the shaft t3 can ,Y ment of said ticket-Wheel, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of aspring-actuated ticket-wheel provided with a series of slots for containing tickets and having two series of peripheral spurs arranged on different circuinferential lines; one series of said spurs being arranged intermediately to the spurs of the other series, and a sliding-bar provided wlth a standing iiange arranged to engage with-said spurs successively; whereby the Arotative movement of said ticket-Wheel will be interrupted to effect a step-by-step rotation .Ef dsaid Wheel, as and for the purpose speci- '3. The combination of a spring-actuated number-Wheel, a ratchet-wheel secured to the shaft which carries saidnumber-Wheel, a lever provided with a detent fitted to engage with said ratchet-Wheel; ysaid lever' being also provided with a shutter which normally forms a closure for an opening in the casing` of the apparatus, and a Wheel provided with a stud arranged to effect a tilting movement of said lever; whereby said detent will be disengaged from the ratchet-wheel and the shutter moved from said opening, as and for the purpose i specified. Y

4. The combination of a tilting-lever carryf f fsisgerrfVr centralizea counter weight directly under said pivot and-at the 'other end--having af coin-receiver provided with a swinging-end connected to an adjusting-screw for adapting saidk receiver for retaining different `sizes ot' coins, (and a sliding-,bar that is normally locked by said' tilting-lever and is connected tothe swinging-end of the coin-receiver;

whereby the apparatus can bek adapted to bey operated by coins of dierent sizes and weights, and the Swinging-end-of the coin-receiver be retracted to discharge the coin from said receiver, as and for the purpose specified.

k5; In a coin-controlled game-apparatus, ay

numbers-wheel composed of `a principal disk provided with a series of consecutively-arf ranged numerals, and a supplementary disk lhaving asegmental portion of its surface removed tov expose the numerals ot' the principal disk; ,saidy supplementary disk being pron vided Withfa lesser number of numerals than theprincipal disk, and a locking-device for ySecuring the principaland supplementary,

disks together in such manner that said number-Wheelwill show either acontinuous series i of numerals, or two corresponding yseries of the same, as and for the purpose specified.

6. The combination of `a casing provided With a ticket-discharge opening, a swingingguard fitted lto form a closure for said opening, a coin-controlled tilting-lever, and a sliding-bar normally locked in an immovable position by said tilting-lever and arranged toy effecta movement of said guard to give tree specified. f

access to ,said opening, as andfor the purpose 7. yIn .a coin-controlled apparatus, ak coinn chute having its exterior opening provided with an adjustment manipulated from the interior of the casing of the apparatus; Whereby saidopeningcan be adjusted to yprevent the introduction of a coin of too great a diameter into said chute, as herein specified. HERMAN MATERN.

W'itnesses:V

B. LIPSCLITZ, WM. LOW.