Roulette bowl having a roulette wheel

• US 5,437,452 A
• Filed: 07/22/1993
• Issued: 08/01/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Novomatic AG
• Original Assignee: Novo-Invest Development AG
• Inventors: Machac, Werner, Graf, Johann
• Primary Examiner(s): LAYNO, BENJAMIN
• Application Number:
  US08/094,049
• Time in Patent Office: 740 Days
• Field of Search: 273/142 E, 273/142 F
• US Class Current: 273/142.00E
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 5/00 Roulette games aspects of games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions showing representations related to the game A63F13/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 5/007 Details about the compartments or sectors, e.g. sectors having different sizes

Abstract

The invention concerns a roulette bowl, in particular for the use in gambling casinos, having a roulette wheel. According to the invention it is provided that the roulette wheel (4) carries a ring (5) having radially extending fins (10) that confine the fields (32) and that the fins (10) confining the fields (32) are constructed in one single piece with the ring (5) that preferably is deepenedly inserted into a recess of the roulette wheel (4) (FIG. 1).

Claims

1. A roulette bowl for gambling casinos, comprising a roulette wheel having a recess, a metal ring with integrally formed radially extending fins confining pockets, the metal ring being fixedly mounted in the recess of the roulette wheel.

2. The roulette bowl of claim 1, wherein the metal is brass.

3. The roulette bowl of claim 1, wherein the metal is coated with nickel.

4. The roulette bowl of claim 1, wherein the metal is coated with chromium.

5. The roulette bowl of claim 1, wherein the ring is fixedly mounted to the recess by screws.

6. The roulette bowl of claim 1, wherein the ring has a width of 19 to 27% of the radius of the ring center line.

7. The roulette bowl of claim 1, wherein the ring has a width of 21 to 25% of the radius of the ring center line.

8. The roulette bowl of claim 1, wherein the fins confining the pockets have back portions with outer back regions and inner back regions.

9. The roulette bowl of claim 8, wherein the back portions form a kink at a kink point, resulting in radially sloping inner back regions with a kink angle (A) being between 2°

and 12°

.

10. The roulette bowl of claim 9, wherein the kink point is positioned spaced apart from the outer back region 40 to 60% of the ring width.

11. The roulette bowl of claim 8, wherein the back regions have a height of 15 to 27% of the width of the ring.

12. The roulette bowl of claim 8, wherein the surface of the outer back region and the surface of the inner back region are each inclined, the course of the height (Hi) of the outer back region is between 1 to 3 mm and the course of the height (H2) of the inner back region is between 0.5 to 2.5 min.

13. The roulette bowl of claim 1, the roulette wheel being bearingly supported on a trunnion and a flange portion in a roulette trough, wherein the trunnion and the recessed ring are machined out of a single piece of metal.

14. The roulette bowl of claim 12 wherein the inclined surfaces include with the horizontal direction in the outer fin region an angle (B) between 40°

to 50°

, preferably of about 45°

, and in the inner fin region an angle (C) between 30°

to 40°

, preferably about 35°

.

15. The roulette bowl of claim 14 wherein the fins being integral with the ring are provided in their inner end section with a nose directed inwardly and having a bottom edge that rises upwardly, which nose rests on a rising ring surface of an annular shaped protrusion of the roulette wheel.

16. The roulette bowl of claim 15, wherein the outer end of the back edge of the fins is positioned at the same level as an inner edge of an inwardly sloping annular surface of the roulette wheel.