what you are doing is great it is to bad that they don't make em game parts anymore. I have a CNC plasma cutter so I'm trying to make my own parts (relays. relay banks. stepper units score reels score motors) and many more parts from scratch.
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what you are doing is great it is to bad that they don't make em game parts anymore. I have a CNC plasma cutter so I'm trying to make my own parts (relays. relay banks. stepper units score reels score motors) and many more parts from scratch.
this old technology is really cool. attached here is a pdf of the 1950s score reel patent so make sure you download it. I hope to be able to make them again
someday. I have been trying to model the design in a cad program and here it is the frame part. here is what it will kind of look like when it is finished
I. am also trying to design new electro-mechanical game using the parts I am designing
US2779200.pdfscore reel frame 1 v21.pngcomplete score reel asembled v18.pngThank's mark. I really think the electro-mechanical games are a lot more fun than today's solid state games and that they should still make them today
I seem to have good patent interpretation skills this even works with old parts catalogs I'm also good at cad design so. I am trying to bring these good old parts back into production. I'm have been designing a new electro- mechanical game and I do not feel it is right to rob these old parts off games to make this one so I have decided to make my own parts from scratch
attached here are some other united mfg patents you might want
US2532205.pdfUS2599903.pdfUS2618719.pdfUS2707637.pdfUS2806701.pdfhere it my attempt to copy Durant's score reel design: this is the pawl that keeps the ratchet from turning backwards when the unit steps up
pic#1 is the bushing not yet crimped without pawl pic#2 pawl without bushing pic#3 bushing with pawl but not yet crimped.
pic#4 finished pawl crimped on to bushing
holding pawl bushing v6 (resized).pngholding pawl 1 v22 (resized).pngholding pawl bushing v65 (resized).pngholding pawl asembly v3 (resized).pngQuoted from Dono:That red score reel looks very similar to the Keeney Poker Face pin I'm working on right now... do you know how I could confirm if in fact Keeney used Durant's design for their pin or bowler score reels? Only difference I can see is that my Keeney game score reels are green with white text and they're plastic, not metal.
keeny did use Durant's score reel design for their 1952 domino bowler. keeny did not make their own score reels at first they used united's cardboard reels an then switched to Ballys plastic score reels in the late 1950s
here is the patent for your reels
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