Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #060 - 1980 - February [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 pinwheel 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
the
principal
smaller
PAUPA-HOCHREIM ELK
one-reel
manufacturers
manufacturers,
such
as
Paupa
and Hochreim of Chicago also produced
! 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.
Of all the one-reelers, the Elk is probably the
best-known since it was produced by at least
three manufacturers.
their Elk for $30 in
Mills, for example, sold
1907 and described it
thusly:
'The Mills Elk is a superior machine be
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