Patent · US Expired

Apparatus for random number selection

US4533143A · kind A · utility

14Cited by
13References
8Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateJul 6, 1984
Grant dateAug 6, 1985
Priority date
Expiry dateJul 6, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA63F2250/04
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A portable hand held apparatus for randomly selecting by chance a plurality of numbers particularly suitable for lottery selections. A plurality of buoyant cubes are contained in the fluid tight generally opaque container. The container has a window for viewing a predetermined number of the cubes temporarily trapped and arranged adjacent the window after agitating the container by a user. A cube receiving channel is formed within the container adjacent the window for releasably trapping a desired number of cubes adjacent the window. The fluid and buoyant cubes provide a pleasing movement of the cubes within the container when agitated by the user and randomly come to rest adjacent the viewing window.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.