Automatic Age

February, 1941
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Patent No. 2,204,397
Amusement Device
In a simulated racing game the
combination of a movable racing fig­
ure, means including a trackway sup­
porting said figure for movement
along a pre-determined path with a
step-by-step motion, means continu­
ously biasing said figure for motion
along said path in one direction, re-
leasable latch means for arresting
the motion of the figure along said
path after each of a series of steps
of its advance along the same, said
latch means presenting after each
step a plurality of portions option­
ally engageable by the player to re­
lease the same, presettable means at
each step for preventing engagement
by the player of desired ones of said
optionally engageable portions of
said latch means, and means for hid­
ing from view the said last named
means after it has been preset. Pat­
ented by Edward L. Barrett, La­
Grange, 111., assignor to Barrett En­
gineering
Company,
Chicago,
111.
Application July 21, 1939, Serial No.
285,763. 18 Claims. (Cl. 273-86).
Patent No. 2,204,473
Game Apparatus
A game apparatus comprising a
substantially rectangular s h a p e d
table having a bed, side walls and
opposite end walls, respectively, the
side and end walls being vertical to
the bed and extending for a major
portion of the length thereof with
the minor portion of the said side
walls together with one end wall
elevated a considerable distance above
the plane of said bed for effecting a
trapping space, a flat level ball run­
way superimposed upon said bed and
carried into the tripping space and
having a uniform width considerably
less than the width of the table for
a major distance thereof and a minor
flared fan spreadlike portion consti­
tuting a pin-setting tei’minal within
the said trapping space, vertical side
and end walling immediately beneath
the terminal, a chute opening into
the trapping space beyond opposite
sides and the end adjacent thereto
of the said setting terminal and be­
ing inclined away from the said
trapping space with the lowermost
end of the said chute terminating re­
mote from the said space, and an in­
clined board within the trapping
space with the incline of such board
reversed to the incline of the chute
for gravity action of the pins from
the terminal when knocked therefrom
and their delivery into the trapping
space, the end walling beneath the
terminal and the inclined board hav­
ing registered openings foi the pas­
sage of a ball only tnerethrough to
the chute.
Patented by Leonardo
Colaluca, Somerville, N. J. Applica­
tion Aug. 2, 1939, Serial No. 288,049.
I Claim. (Cl. 273-47).
Patent No. 2,204,853
Coin or Token Handling
Apparatus
In a coin or token handling appar­
atus, the combination of a plurality
of coin magazines, a common coin
ejector movable between a position in
which it receives coins or tokens
from the magazines and a position in
which the coins or tokens are dis-
shutter movable below said ejector
to prevent coins or tokens from one
magazine
from
being
discharged
from the ejector while permitting
free discharge from the ejector of
coins or tokens from another of the
magazines. Patented by Emil Good­
man, Chicago, 111 assignor, by mesne
assignments, to James E. Johnson,
Chicago, 111.
Application January
6, 1936, Serial No. 57725 . 9 Claims.
(Cl. 194-10)
Patent No. 2,205,060
Amusement Game Apparatus
For a ball rolling game having
a table over which a ball is rollable
and a cylindrical helical spring car­
ried thereabove about an upright axis
and forming one side of a contact
switch, a contact carried on the
board and forming the other side of
the contact switch, said spring and
contact being normally gapped apart
i nan electrical circuit closable when
the ball rolling on the table bumps
and deflects the spring to engage it
with said contact, an electric lamp
included in the circuit and rigidly
positioned on the axis of the spring,
said lamp being lighted when the
cii’cuit is closed and beine: of less
size than the diameter of the spring,
whereby the spring protects the lamp
from being engaged by a ball when
the latter bumps the spring.
Pat­
ented by Lyndon A . Durant, Chicago,
111. assignor to Raymond T. Moloney,
Chicago, 111. Application October 7,
1937, Serial No. 167,741.
6 Claims
(Cl. 273-118)
Patent No. 2,205,217
Game Apparatus
In game apparatus of the nature
set forth; a plurality of rows of hor­
izontally disposed rods suppox-ted be­
tween the sides of a box-like struc­
ture, pins swingably mounted hereon
and bearing a ratchet element rotat­
able in the plane of swing of the
pin and a resilient holding pawl en­
gaging the ratchet to restrict its
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direction of rotation, elements lo-
caed behind the respective rods par­
allel thereto and supported in the
sides of said structure affording
holding means in alignment with the
ratchet elements of the corresponding
pins for engagement therewith when
a pin is elevated upon being struck
by a ball, and means to release an
engaged pin therefrom Patented by
Myron C. Morrill, South Plainfield,
N. J.
Application November 17,
1938, Serial No. 240,925. 3 Claims.
(Cl. 273-41)
Patent No. 2,205,218
Game Apparatus
In game apparatus of the nature
set forth : a plurality of parallel,
horizontally disposed shafts rotatably
supported between the sides of a
box-like structure, pins swingably
mounted thereon, and means connect­
ing the pins to their respective shafts
to permit a pin to swing in one
direction independently of the rota­
tion of its shaft, together with means
to rotate positively all of the said
shafts. Patented by Myron C. Mor­
rill, South Plainfield, N.J. Applica­
tion January 11, 1940, Serial No.
313, 330. 9 Cliams. (Cl. 273-41)
Patent No. 2,202,897
Coin-Operated Device
5. A coin controlled mechanism
comprising a coin receiving chamber
having fixed wall and a movable wall
supported in a yielding manner to
accommodate coins of different thick­
ness, a coin entry passage through
which bent and deformed coins can
be forced into said chamber, means
for calipering a coin positioned in
said coin receiving chamber, means
for operating the mechanism in ac­
cordance with the diameter of the in­
serted coin as determined by said
operating means for moving said
movable wall away from said fixed
wall to an extent greater than the
thickness of any coin insertable
through said coin entry passage to
enable coins to be released into the
coin collecting chamber. Patented by
Frederick
Roy Butherus, Enfield,
England. Application September 26,
1935, Serial No. 42,231. In Great
Britain Oct. 6, 1934. 6 Claims. ( 0 1 . ­
194-3).
Patent No. 2,202,925
Controlling and Illustrating
Band for Phonographic Disks
1. A seal for phonograph records
comprising an elongated foldable
strip having free ends, each free end
for engaging, respectively a face of
said record, said strip having adja­
cent its ends apertures for rendering
visible the labels of said record when
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