October, 1932
Recent
THE
COIN
MACHINE
75
JOURNAL
P A T E N T S
Hazards for Square Games
Edited by JO H N F. BREZINA
Patent No. 1,870,536, granted to
Steven L. Vaccaro, Jr., of New Or
leans, covering a novel gaine com
prising a central octagon plate
which has a number of ball recep
tacles therein. A plurality of ball
runways are removably connected
Patent and Trademark Attorney
Inquiries regarding patents shown
in this department and persons ob
taining patents relating to coin oper
ated devices may receive publicity
regarding same if they will send
their statement of claims to this
magazine in care of this department.
Secured
control mechanism. The radial
finger of the rotable member 22
shown in the drawing is released by
the coin operated mechanism and
then rotated to deliver the lower
most article in the magazine to the
curved chute 24 to be delivered to
the operator.
New Golf Game
Selective Vendor Idea
in normally inclined position to the
respective sides of the central plate
so that said runways are inclined.
Each runway has a different kind
of semi-obstruction as indicated in
the drawing, so that various degrees
of skill are required to cause a ball
or marble to roll up the runway,
surmount the obstruction, and into
the receptacles in the central plate.
Patent No. 1,871,000, issued to
Curt W. Klosterman, assignor to
Mechanical Vending Corp., Chi
cago, covers a machine for selec
tively dispensing articles of differ
ent brand, kind and value. It
includes a plurality of independ-
Would Catapult Balls in
New Game
A patent has been granted to
Peter Horn and Frank Zipp of
Brooklyn, N. Y., which covers an
inexpensive game wherein balls, by
manual retraction and snapping
forward of a bent wire, are cata
pulted upwardly from their re
cesses in a hinged box cover by re
lease of said cover from its lower
inclined position. A loop spring
causes said cover to spring up
wardly when the operator pulls out
wardly 011 a spring an the end of
the box which normally bears upon
a shoulder of the box cover to hold
it down. To repeat, the cover is
again pressed down past the retract-
ible spring which again engages tile
cover shoulder.
ently operable merchandise article
magazines, the articles being super
posed in vertical rows, part of which
are visible to the customer. Its
coin operated mechanism comprises
a rotatable shaft, an operated lever
thereon, a plate rotatably mounted
on the shaft and which has a num
ber of annular radial channels
formed in one face and annular
grooves communicating at their end
portiQns with said channels, and
said plate has a plurality of an
nular fingers which are respectively
adapted to engage the lowermost
article in the magazine. The device
also embodies change making mech
anism which cooperates with the
coin controlled mechanism as' de
scribed in detail in the patent. Each
magazine has its independent coin
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Here is a new idea in a game
which will be dependent upon the
skill of the operator simulating a
golf game . It comprises a cabinet
with transparent cover, with a deck
which simulates in appearance a
fairway or green and which has a
putting hole. This deck is inclined
to a common point in which is ro
tatably mounted a spherical disk
comprising a tee. The tee is rotat
able through lever means beneath
the deck connected to an outside bell
crank*
A miniature golfer holding a club
represents the impelling means and
is rotatably mounted on a shaft to
which the golfer is secured, one end
of the shaft extending beneath a
bunker or deck. The shaft has a
bevel gear thereon which meshes
with a similar gear on another shaft
beneath the deck, which in turn is
rotated by the operator through a
bell crank lever which extends out
side of the cabinet. Booking of the
lever will oscillate the golfer to
move the head of the club across the
tee, thereby striking the ball. A
coin control mechanism including a
releasable lock is provided. A back
stop having two target openings is
provided, each target having a trig
ger mechanism which is thrown
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