Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
  • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
  • G07F17/3202—Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
  • G07F17/3204—Player-machine interfaces
  • G07F17/3211—Display means
  • G07F17/3213—Details of moving display elements, e.g. spinning reels, tumbling members
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
  • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
  • G07F17/3202—Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
  • G07F17/3204—Player-machine interfaces
  • G07F17/3211—Display means

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a shutter that has been specially designed to temporarily hide the normally visible part of a viewfinder or rotating drum from those that are usually used in recreational machines.
• the object of the invention is to achieve that, during the development of a play, one or more of the images that participate through said viewers in the combination corresponding to a winning line, can be kept hidden, while keeping said combination partially hidden , which allows the player, before finalizing the play, opt for different game alternatives depending on the images he is viewing and those he anticipates may exist in the viewfinder or hidden viewers.
• the invention is applicable to the field of recreational machines with cash prizes and allows to enhance the performance of the game, with direct intervention of the player in the results of each play.
• the practicable shutter that the invention proposes constitutes an advance in this line of allowing a greater intervention in the game by the player, specifically keeping at least one of the viewers of the machine hidden during the course of the play, so that when said viewfinders stabilize the player can not fully visualize the combination he has obtained, and depending on the figures that are shown and his own intuition about which figure can be hidden by the shutter cover, is in conditions of opt for certain game alternatives, in a manner relatively similar to what happens in uncovered poker, in which while most of the cards appear visible to the player, some or some of them remain hidden.
• the shutter of the invention is embodied in a formally and dimensionally suitable curtain to allow the covering of all the corresponding part of the viewfinder that is initially visible through the machine screen, preferably configuration curtain in a cylindrical segment, of curvature coinciding with that of the viewfinder itself, mounted with freedom of rotation on a support, which preferably in practice will be mounted on the viewfinder drive motor itself, support in which a small auxiliary motor is established, which supplies the rotating movement to the curtain, within a certain angle established by a pair of limit switches, mounted with static character on the repeatedly mentioned support and on which a stop associated with the curtain itself acts, so that such career ends establish the limit opening and closing situations of said curtain, conveniently governing said micromotor .
• said motor can be realized in practice in a stepper motor, in which case the stop and the aforementioned limit switches are unnecessary, the amplitude of angular displacement of the curtain being controlled by control in the angular movement of the motor.
• the shutter of the invention will incorporate on its outer surface, the one visible through the screen of the machine, additional figures and a formal and dimensionally suitable window to allow the vision of a figure present in the roller or drum of the game machine or recreational, so that the game alternatives are further increased.
• the output pinion of the gearbox group is substantially projected radially with respect to the disk support and passes through a window operatively practiced in the cylindrical capsule, to engage with the toothed ring that ends the arm of the shutter cap itself, which in this case it presents the toothed of transmission of movement in its inner edge.
• the support of the actuation means of the shutter cover itself is located inside the support of the main motor of the viewfinder, so that its volumetric occupancy is minimal, with virtually no impact on the volumetry of the viewfinder in its set with all its accessories.
• the latter is structured from a steering wheel carrying the shutter curtain, a wheel designed to adapt laterally and coaxially to the corresponding roller, maintaining the physical independence mentioned above, but so that its curtain is superimposed on the periphery of the roller and, depending on the position adopted by the steering wheel, is in turn capable of hiding or not the images of said roller facing the viewfinder window, for which purpose the aforementioned steering wheel is mounted with freedom of rotation on a support that is parallel to the roller support and which, like the latter, adopts an "L" profile for fixing by screwing the structure of the machine
• the aforementioned steering wheel incorporates a perimeter toothing through which it receives the movement of a micromotor, established in the support itself, through a gearbox transmission whose pinion of Gear output with the perimeter of the flywheel.
• Figure 1 Shows an exploded perspective view of a practicable shutter for gaming or recreational machine viewers made in accordance with the object of the present invention, together with part of the corresponding viewfinder.
• Figure 2. Shows a side elevation view of the assembly of the previous figure, properly assembled.
• Figure 3. Shows a sectional detail of the assembly represented in figure 2, according to the line A-B of said figure.
• Figure 4.- Shows an exploded perspective view of a practicable shutter for gaming or recreational machine viewers made in accordance with the embodiment variant in which it incorporates additional figures as well as a viewing window.
• Figure 5. Shows an exploded perspective view of a rotary viewer for a recreational machine equipped with another embodiment variant for the shutter.
• Figure 6 shows, finally, a new variant of the shutter embodiment, also according to a perspective view, in which said shutter appears uncoupled from the corresponding viewfinder, but duly faced with it.
• the invention proposes, in the present case especially designed for visors (1) materialized in a roulette or cylindrical drum, carrier on its periphery of an alignment of images (2) and driven by an electric motor (3) coaxially mounted on it, is embodied in a curtain (4), rectangular, arched profile, formally and dimensionally suitable to be located outside and concentrically on the viewfinder ( 1), hiding the images or figures (2) of the latter that must be visible through the screen, for which purpose and as evident said curtain (4) should be opaque, extending through one of its lateral edges in a radial arm (5) that at its other end is finished off in a flat ring (6), provided at its edge with a toothed sector (7), ring (6) designed to be mounted with freedom of rotation on the motor itself ( 3) of drum or visor (1) and to receive through its gear (7) and with the collaboration of a gearbox gearbox (8), the movement generated by an established micromotor (9), as well as
• the aforementioned support (10) constitutes in parallel the support means for a pair of microswitches or limit switches (11-11 '), conveniently spaced apart, between which a stop (12) integral with the b4azo (5) of the curtain ( 4), so that one of these career ends (11) establishes the closing limit situation for the curtain, while the other establishes the opening limit situation.
• the micromotor (9) can be of the "step by step” type, in which case the microswitches or limit switches (11-11 ') are unnecessary, as well as the stop (12), since in In this case, the movement of the curtain (4) can be controlled by the timing in the feeding of said micromotor.
• the one shown in figure 4, 1 curtain (4 ') based on the same structuring incorporates on its outer surface, the visible through the screen of the machine, additional figures (2') complementary of the figures (2) present in the drum or roller (1), as well as a window (13) that allows the display of the aforementioned figures (2) of the drum or roller (1).
• the number of figures (2 ') and windows (13) is variable in position and number depending on the corresponding needs.
• the shutter is also intended for viewers (21) materialized in a roulette or cylindrical drum, carrier on its periphery of an alignment of images (22) and driven by an electric motor (23 ) coaxially mounted on it, and is embodied in a curtain (24), rectangular, arched profile, formally and dimensionally suitable to be located outside and concentrically on the drum (21), hiding the images or figures (22) of the latter that under normal conditions they are visible through the screen, for which purpose said curtain is opaque, extending through one of its lateral edges in a radial arm (25), of appropriate length, which at the other end is finished off in a flat ring (26) through which it receives the rotating movement for tilting the curtain or cover itself (24).
• a curtain rectangular, arched profile, formally and dimensionally suitable to be located outside and concentrically on the drum (21), hiding the images or figures (22) of the latter that under normal conditions they are visible through the screen, for which purpose said curtain is opaque, extending through one of its lateral edges in a radial arm (
• Said ring (26) incorporates its toothed sector (27) in its inner edge, with which the output pinion (28) of a gearbox of gears multiplier, which in turn receives the movement of a micromotor (29), established like the gear set (28) on a disk-shaped support (30) as a bowl, with a diameter coinciding with the diameter of the main motor (23) of the drum drive (21), and which, like the latter, is intended to be housed in a support materialized in a cylindrical capsule (31).
• the support (30) incorporates a groove
• the structure described is complemented by a pair of washers (34-35) that frame the toothed ring (26), which may optionally be fixed to each other and that in any case are fixed to the support capsule (31), counting one of these washers (35) with the limit switches (36) which, in collaboration with a stop (37) attached to the arm (25), control the micromotor circuit (29) to control the angular displacement of the curtain or cover itself (24), within the pre-established limits for this purpose.
• the shutter also incorporates the classic shutter cover (41), of width at least coincident with that of the roller (42) carrying the images (43) that are part of the combinatorial game that allows the player to qualify for a cash prize, images (43) that are sequentially visible by the player through the window corresponding of said viewfinder, established on the screen of the machine, the length of said shutter (41) being also adequate to completely hide said viewing window.
• the classic shutter cover (41) of width at least coincident with that of the roller (42) carrying the images (43) that are part of the combinatorial game that allows the player to qualify for a cash prize, images (43) that are sequentially visible by the player through the window corresponding of said viewfinder, established on the screen of the machine, the length of said shutter (41) being also adequate to completely hide said viewing window.
• the shutter (41) is integral, by one of its curved edges, to the periphery of a flywheel (44) mounted with freedom of rotation on an axis (45) which, in a situation of assembly for the shutter, is coaxial with the axis (46) of the roller (42), the aforementioned shaft (45) being mounted in turn with freedom of rotation on a flat support (47) parallel to the support (48) of the roller (42), opposed to the latter, and equipped on one of its edges with an orthogonal bend (49) with holes (50) for fixing the structure of the recreational machine.
• the steering wheel (44) incorporates a perimeter teeth (51) through which it receives the movement of a micromotor (52), with which a gearbox transmission (53) collaborates, elements established on the support itself (47), with the collaboration of an auxiliary bridge deck
• the support itself (47) is also for the plate (55) carrying the engine steering circuit (52), a circuit with him collaborates a couple of limit switches that are fixed to the periphery of the steering wheel (44), with the possibility of positional regulation, specifically with the collaboration of holes (56-56 '), operatively practiced on the steering wheel (44).
• the limit switches can be magnets that act by hall effect, they can be optocouplers, microswitches or any others that are considered convenient.
• the integral teeth (51) of the flywheel (44) allow the displacement of the sealing cover (41) to be 360 °.

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