Rotary lottery number generating means having peripheral fields proportionately sized

• US 5,197,736 A
• Filed: 11/22/1989
• Issued: 03/30/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Advantage Partners Limited Liability Partnership
• Original Assignee: Alan L. Backus, Scott Blum
• Inventors: Blum, Scott, Backus, Alan L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Millin, V.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pierce, William M.
• Application Number:
  US07/440,600
• Time in Patent Office: 1,224 Days
• Field of Search: 273/138 R, 273/141 R, 273/142 R, 273/142 A-142 G, 273/142 J, 273/142 JA, 273/142 JD, 273/148 R, 273/269, 273/274, 273/146 R, 273/142 K , 273/87 G, 273/93 R, 273/138 A, 434/174, 434/198, 434/206
• US Class Current: 273/142.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/06 Lottos or bingo games; Systems, apparatus or devices for checking such games small boxes with balls used for generating random numbers A63F7/048; lottery apparatus G07C15/00; lottery gaming stations, online lottery or bingo G07F17/329; printing processes for lottery tickets B41M3/005

Abstract

Apparatus to increase chance predictions of lottery numbers. Said apparatus comprised of random means for selecting lottery outcomes from among fields weighted proportional to statistical data to reflect past lottery outcomes.

Rotary means with peripheral fields sized based on moving averages of past lottery or game outcomes. Means to initiate and randomly terminate rotary motion of these rotary means.

Claims

1. In combination, a set of statistical data and an apparatus for enhancing chance predictions of a lottery outcome,

said set of statistical data being a set of information indicative of past lottery game outcomes, said set of information being collected by monitoring a repetitive lottery game over a set period of time;

and

said apparatus comprising;

a structural base supporting a rotary member, said rotary member having at least part of its periphery exposed,

means to initiate rotary motion in said rotary member,

means to randomly terminate said rotary motion in said rotary member,

bounded fields marked on said rotary member,

each of said bounded fields being defined by differential peripheral indices on said rotary member, said differential peripheral indices being determined by said set of statistical data, and

indicator means identifying at least one of said bounded field after termination of said rotary motion by said means to randomly terminate.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said rotary member is a disk.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein said apparatus further includes means to accept a human input and said means to randomly terminate terminates said rotary motion in said rotary member based on a human input accepted by said means to accept human input.

4. The combination of claim 1 wherein said bounded fields occur at the exposed periphery of said rotary member.

5. The combination of claim 1 wherein the size of said bounded fields is directly proportional to a moving average of said past lottery game outcomes.

6. The combination of claim 1 wherein the size of said bounded fields is directly proportional to a weighted moving average of said past lottery game outcomes.