Chance game machine

US4824113A · kind A · utility

Inventor

• Georg Lange · Voerde, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 23, 1987
• Grant date: Apr 25, 1989
• Expiry date: Mar 23, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F17/3213
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a chance game machine with winning opportunity, with at least one (drawing) chamber, which is equipped with a drawing device receiving playing elements after a mixing process, and from which one of a plurality of playing elements is to be drawn; a group of playing elements, which during a mixing phase are to be mixed by a mixing device and during mixing are freely movable in the chamber, is present in the chamber, and the group of playing elements contains at least two differently designed playing elements, of which one playing element during the drawing process is to be drawn by the drawing device and fed to a drawing receptacle; the drawing device has a number, corresponding to the number of playing elements of the group, of (playing-element) intermediate receptacles, which are arranged in the chamber for receiving one playing element each after the mixing process, and which, during a first drawing phase, are, with the exception of one intermediate receptacle, each blocked by a gate against deposition of a playing element in the drawing receptacle allocated to the group; the playing element located in the intermediate receptacle which is not blocked is to…