Prize dispenser and prize dispensing hook assembly therefor

US9541120B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Bay Tek Games, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Randy Lasee · Suamico, US
• Mark Johnson · Port Ludlow, US
• Gina Krahn · Green Bay, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 19, 2013
• Grant date: Jan 10, 2017
• Expiry date: Jan 4, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F17/3297
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A prize dispensing hook assembly is provided for retaining a prize suspended from a base of a prize dispenser and releasing the prize therefrom at a predetermined release location. The hook assembly includes a hook structure mounted on the base for movement relative thereto. The hook structure is engageable with the prize in a prize retaining position and is disengagable from the prize in a prize releasing position corresponding to the predetermined release location. The biasing arrangement is continuously engaged with both the base and the hook structure, and provides a biasing force continuously urging an open of the hook structure into direct engagement with the base. An actuator arrangement is mounted within the prize dispenser and is provided with a movable release element which is selectively engageable with the hook structure to move the hook structure to the prize releasing position.