Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #018 - 1976 - July [International Arcade Museum]
CURRENT SCENE'
By Bob Rosenberger
Cast
iron
least
known
one-reelers
of
the
are
old
one
of the
counter-top
gambling machines. These pay-out ma
chines were manufactured largely be
tween 1900 and 1915: they are con
sidered to be the transitional link be
tween the earlier developed pin wheel up
rights and five-reel poker machines and
the later three-reel slot machines. The
cast iron one-reelers are characterized by
their single revolving reel containing dif
ferent symbols along with a cash or to
ken payout. While Mills and Caille were
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the principal one-reel
manufacturers,
smaller manufacturers such as Paupa
and Hochreim of Chicago also produced
i models.
To operate a one-reeler, the player bet on which reel symbol would
appear. Like the uprights, the player could put coins in any or all of the
five or six coin slots corresponding to the different symbols. The token
payout machines had several tubes containing different sized or colored
tokens.
On
a
winner,
the
machine would
eject the proper token which the player could
redeem for cash. Most of the cash-pay ma
chines had several coin tubes mounted on a
rotating carousel. For a payout, the carousel
turned, dropping one coin at a time from the
tubes until a proper payout was made.
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"The Mills Elk is a superior machine be
Of all the one-reelers, the Elk is probably the
cause it combines the best features of
some of the latest improvements on card
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