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Roulette-type game apparatus

Details

Inventors: Luehr, Wolfgang;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Pinkham; Richard C.
Assistant Examiner: Kramer; Arnold W.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall

Roulette-type game apparatus comprising a housing consisting of a base and a transparent hood, a disc for providing a plurality of game fields, a drive actuating and attenuating mechanism consisting of a rotatably mounted drive spindle, a weight slidable along this spindle and an attenuating plate, and indicators such as dice or balls freely movable within said housing between the hood and the game field.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A roulette-type game apparatus comprising: a base (11); a signaling plate (30) rotatably mounted above said base, said plate bearing symbols (36c) on a surface thereof for determining the character of an entertainment game; means (60) mounted on said base above said plate and having a plurality of compartments (64) for receiving indicator means (61), said compartments being adapted for association with said symbols on said plate; enclosure means (20) joined to said base for retaining said indicator means in said game apparatus; and drive means for producing relative rotation between said signaling plate and compartment means, said drive means comprising a drive spindle (41) mounted on said signaling plate, extending through said compartment means, and journalled in at least one of said base and enclosure means, said spindle having an upper threaded portion and a lower unthreaded portion, a non-rotating weight (46) engageable with said spindle for rotating same by movement along the threaded portion and for permitting said spindle and signaling plate to freely rotate when said weight has moved to the unthreaded portion.
2.
A roulette-type game apparatus as defined in claim 1 wherein said base includes a circular base plate (12) with an upright peripheral wall (13) and centrally disposed bearing means (16) for rotatably mounting said spindle (41).
3.
A roulette-type game apparatus as defined in claim 1 including means for attenuating rotary movements of said signaling plate.
4.
A roulette-type game apparatus as defined in claim 3 wherein said attenuating means includes at least one magnet (15) mounted on said base and a plurality of metallic pads (32) mounted on said signaling plate and operatively associated with said magnet.
5.
A roulette-type game apparatus as defined in claim 1 wherein said compartment means comprises a disc (60, 60a) made of a transparent material and including a central opening (63) through which extends drive spindle (41) without contacting said compartment means disc, said disc having a plurality of compartments (64) facing away from said base (11), said disc being adapted to be fixedly mounted on said base

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