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No. 680.893. Patented Aug. 20, I901. M. A. STELZER. GAME APPARATUS.

(Application filed Juno 9, 1900.)

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MAX ARTHUR STELZER, OF NAUSSLITZ, GERMANY.

GAME APPARATUE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 680,893, dated August 20, 1901..

Application filed June 2, 1900.

To all whom it meaty concern:

Be it known that 1, MAX ARTHUR STELZER, a subject of the King of Saxony, and a resident of Nausslitz, near Dresden, in the Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specificat-ion.

This invention relates generally to mechanical toys or automatic game apparatus in which are movable figures or objects, balls or runningbodies foractuatingsaidfigures or objects, a detent for holding said balls or bodies inoperative, and means for withdrawing said detent-a pull rod, for eXamplewhich means on being operated by a person from the exterior of the apparatus sets free one of said balls or running bodies, which, after producing the operation of said movable figures or objects, may be finally delivered to the operator. This ball or running body may consist of a sweetmeat, candy, or any edible or other desirable substance. The means for withdrawing the detent above referred to may be locked and unlocked by a coin-controlled device.

As a subject for the illustration of the invention I have selected a scenic stage, on which is played a game of skittles, the playing-balls of which are delivered into an open receptacle outside of the closed casing, which contains both the game apparatus and coincontrolled devices for liberating the playingballs from the detent.

Figure 1 is a front View of the apparatus representing the upper part of the stage broken away to expose parts of the mechanism of the game apparatus which are ordinarily incased and concealed from view; Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section on the line A 13 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a transverse vertical section on the line 0 D of Fig. 1.

The coin freeing and operating device, which is shown in Fig. 3, comprises an aperture 1 in the casing for the insertion of a coin, a coin-chute 2, and a pivoted lever arranged below the said chute, upon one part 3 of which the coin strikes, whereby the lever is turned, so as to raise a nose or catch 4 out of engagement with an operating device, such as a rod 5, whereby the latter is set free, so that it can be actuated by an operator from Serial No. 18,840. iNo model.)

the outside of the apparatus. This rod has a handle 6 projecting from the casing, and when it is pulled it moves a bent lever 7 ,which in turn pulls a rod 8, with the result that the lever 9 raises a catch or detent 10, whereby the foremost ball 11 of a large number of such balls, situated in suitably-arranged grooves 18 on the top of the stage, is released. \Vhen the foremost ball 11 is thus released by the raising of the front part of the detent 10, it rolls away, while the next ball is arrested by the depression of the rear part of the detent 10, so that only one ball will roll away at a time. For the purpose of exhibiting a game of skittles a skittle-alley or skittle-track is shown on the stage, and the hall which has been released in the manner above stated rolls down along an inclined channel or track 13, formed by two wires, toward a movablyjointed doll or figure 14;, which is caused by this movement of the ball to make, apparently, a throwing motion similar to that of a skittle-player. The ball drops from this figure and moves onto a track 15 on the bottom of the stage, along which it travels toward the skittles. Each skittle 16 is pivoted and provided below the stage with a weight, so that after it has been struck and overturned by the ball it will of itself return to its normal upright position. After passing through the skittles the ball falls or rolls into a closed compartment of the apparatus or into an open basin 17, whence it can be taken out by the operator.

In addition to the movable or working figure or figures non-working figures or dolls may be arranged on the stage for purposes of decoration.

By the term balls as hereinbefore and hereinafter used I intend to include any rolling or running bodies which may work in like manner to operate movable figures or bodies.

I claim.

In an automatic game apparatus, the combination with a casing, of an upper inclined trough for containing balls, a detent at the foot of said trough, a ball-track below said trough inclined in an opposite direction thereto, a movably-jointed doll arranged at the foot of said track to be actuated by balls rolling therefrom, a second inclined ball-track below the first-mentioned track and below ICO said doll, movable figures arranged in said I In testimony that I claim the foregoing as to second inclined track, said inclined trough, my invention I have signed my name, in presinclined tracks, figures and detent being all ence of two Witnesses, this 10th day of May, contained Within said casing, means for op- 1900.

crating said detent from outside the casing, and a ball-receptacle outside of the casing l MAX ARTHUR STELZER.

communicating with the second inclined track Witnesses: at the foot thereof through an opening in the HERNANDO DE SOTO, casing, substantially as herein described. I VVILHELM WOEsENHi'ITTER.

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