Henry A Pagliuca

US Patent:

8517382, Aug 27, 2013

Filed:

Oct 22, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/656813

Inventors:

Henry Pagliuca - Belleville NJ, US

International Classification:

A63F 5/00
A63F 13/00

US Classification:

273142E, 273274, 463 17, 463 27

Abstract:

A game machine has a controller with one or more consoles for recording a player's bet. The machine also has a motor-driven, concave wheel with a plurality of circumferentially spaced compartments. Each compartment can hold temporarily and release the ball. The wheel can produce an outcome signal indicating ball rest position. The controller can signal whether a player's bet has won based on the outcome signal. The base supporting the wheel has a return track for sending the ball released from the wheel to one or more elevators. The elevator can lift the ball to an associated ball striker that can propel the ball back to the wheel. The machine can have one or more stations for propelling the ball.