Slot Machine Patents (by date)

Patents are invaluable for research and restoration, recording in detail innovative and successful designs and others which never went into production, or of which no examples survive. If you find others, please add them. Many from 1890 onwards are online at Espacenet.

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YearPat. №PatenteeDescriptionAdded
1857 706 Simeon Denham Stamp vendor 07/05/17
1867 435 James Parkes Oracle card dispenser 07/05/17
1878 ? W H Tetley & S Clayton Coin op bagatelle scoring etc. 07/05/17
1883 2033 John G Sandeman & Percival Everitt Postcard vendor 07/05/17
1884 16433 Percival Everitt Weighing machine 07/05/17
1885 ? Percival Everitt Improved postcard vendor 07/05/17
1885 10725 Percival Everitt Ticket machine 07/05/17
1885 12576 Robert William Page Try Your Strength & various 07/05/17
1885 ? Robert William Page Strength tester 07/05/17
1885 ? ? Liquid dispenser 07/05/17
1886 ? ? Hot drinks vendor 07/05/17
1886 10680 Percival Everitt Electric shock 07/05/17
1886 ? ? Measuring height 07/05/17
1886 ? ? Lung tester 07/05/17
1886 12017 Thomas James Hewson Message receipt and display 07/05/17
1886 ? 4 patentees Electric shock 07/05/17
1886 12317 Percival Everitt Message receipt and display 07/05/17
1886 15813 Percival Everitt Pull strength tester 07/05/17
1886 ? Mortimer Justin Electric shock with time limit 07/05/17
1886 1450Percival Everitt Apparatus for closing receptacles for coin or other articles 28/04/17
1886 13471 Archer Bellingham and Mortimer Justin Electric shock 07/05/17
1886 US336042Percival Everitt Weighing machine 28/04/17
1886 15000 William Spiers Simpson Stereoscopic viewer 07/05/17
1886 15699 Percival Everitt Ticket dispenser 07/05/17
1886 9399 William Samual Oliver Electric shock with dial/card 07/05/17
1886 ? J S Wallace Vending attached to other coin freed devices 07/05/17
1886 8404 Percival Everitt Force of blow tester 07/05/17
1886 1450 Percival Everitt Drawer etc. lock 07/05/17
1886? ? J M O'Kelly Combination strength tester 07/05/17
1886 9310 Norman Willis Russ Electric shock 07/05/17
1886 ? Percival Everitt Coin operated toilet seat 07/05/17
1886 5139 Thomas Cooper Fortune teller? 07/05/17
1886 8403 Percival Everitt Liquid dispenser 07/05/17
1887 16574 Frank Harvey Urry Vending 07/05/17
1887 15161 Percival Everitt Electric shock 07/05/17
1887 2154 William Samuel Oliver Race games (horses) 07/05/17
1887 US374297Percival Everitt Automatic vending 10/06/17
1887 3158 Percival Everitt Electric shock 07/05/17
1887 ? J C Sellars Speed testing appliance 07/05/17
1887 3801 C E Hall Musical vendor 07/05/17
1887 11859 William Reynolds Jnr. Gun discharge 07/05/17
1887 14773 G & H Bryant Testing muscle strength 07/05/17
1887 ? R Hewson & E Crowe Spirometer 07/05/17
1888 7083 Thomas William Ford Corinthian? electro-medical batteries 07/05/17
1888 16750 George Haydon & others Vending 09/05/17
1888 18306 Automatic Electric Supply Co & others Shocker (Not found) 09/05/17
1888 2375 Edmund Edwards Picture viewer 07/05/17
1888 4998 W T Whitman (US Machine & Inventors Co) Musical weighing machine 07/05/17
1889 11480 Anthony Harris Spin dial game or fortune teller, wall machine 09/05/17
1889 19276 Cornelis Frederik Alexander & Frederick Jewell, Roell Coin-operated delivery improvements 09/05/17
1889 12282 Fred H Ayers and Walter Standers Mechanical models 09/05/17
1889 13259 (US400839)Percival Everitt Grip tester 09/05/17
1889 13260 Percival Everitt Weighing machine 09/05/17
1889 18676 F Redman Target with prize apparatus 09/05/17
1889 ? ? Phonographic fortune teller 09/05/17
1889 ? David Johnson Shooter 09/05/17
1889 1757 Joseph Mason Electro-Medical Battery? shocker 09/05/17
1889 2970 Arthur Munroe Pierce Card vending figure/fortune 09/05/17
1889 ? George Haydon Dispensing 09/05/17
1890 16472 Benjamin John Stacey Electric shock 10/05/17
1890 US428514J Owen Gold changer 10/06/17
1890 17510 Percival Everitt Fortune teller (dial) 10/05/17
1890 18830 James Gilbert Cumming Gun 10/05/17
1890 19059 Joseph Mason Electric shock with prize vendor 10/05/17
1890 19060 Joseph Mason Ticket vendor 10/05/17
1890 4697 H O Berg (A McN Coyle) Race game 09/05/17
1890 6942 Cornelis Frederick Alexander Roell Boxers mechanical model 09/05/17
1890 ? ? Combined shocker, scales, lung tester & disc 10/05/17
1890 10954 Cornelis Frederick Alexander Roell Boxers mechanical model 09/05/17
1890 ? ? Kangeroo shaped shocker 10/05/17
1890 11004 R Timperley Kaleidoscope/pictures 09/05/17
1890 14392Cornelis Frederick Alexander Roell Boxers mechanical model 09/05/17
1891 4546 Cornelis Frederick Alexander Roell Runners model 10/05/17
1891 US446970Charles Arthur Barrett, Alfred Barrett Force testing apparatus 10/06/17
1891 10116 James Gilbert Cumming Gun, improvements 10/05/17
1891 13026Cornelis Frederick Alexander Roell Boxers, improvement to figures 10/05/17
1891 US453729Charles Arthur Barrett, Alfred Barrett Dynamometer (Test Your Twist) 10/06/17
1891 13815 T Underwood Indicate/record apparatus for exercise games 10/05/17
1891 CH2832Percival Everitt 'Oracle' fortune teller 10/05/17
1891 9148 Cornelis Frederick Alexander Roell Winding mechanism 10/05/17
1891 849 Cornelis Frederick Alexander Roell Runners model 10/05/17
1891 US452688Charles Arthur Barrett, Alfred Barrett Dynamometer (Test Your Grip) improvement 10/06/17
1892 US469127James Gilbert Cumming Coin operated shooting apparatus 12/05/17
1892 14849 J F Peasgood & P Tracy Cylinder musical box - 2 tunes per coin 12/05/17
1892 CA41083Charles Arthur Barrett, Alfred Barrett Dynamometer (Test Your Twist) 10/06/17
1892 17446 Frank Harvey Urry Tivoli 12/05/17
1892 17113 E & C Stransky Self-changing disc musical box 12/05/17
1892 8062 G Bryant Coin operated electric shocker 12/05/17
1892 23042 Electrical Wonder Company (Anschutz) Tachyscope (optical illusion) 12/05/17
1892 US474304Cornelis Frederick Alexander Roell Coin-operated toy (boxers) 10/05/17
1892 CA39418Charles Arthur Barrett, Alfred Barrett Dynamometer (Test Your Grip) 10/06/17
1892 CA39419Charles Arthur Barrett, Alfred Barrett Dynamometer (Test Your Grip) 10/06/17
1893 6196 James Gilbert Cumming Auto-loading shooter 12/05/17
1893 11439 G Bryant Coin machine for giving electric shocks 12/05/17
1893 18356 O Paul Lochmann 'Eroica Symphonion' triple disc musical box 12/05/17
1893 US495734George Haydon & William Vail 'Mr Punch' - Archer, coin return, counter-top 12/05/17
1893 19973 Willoughby Edward Bryan Game (not found) 12/05/17
1893 10521 Charles Phillip Young Pintable 12/05/17
1893 21103 T Parkes Toy figures 12/05/17
1893 22774 Willoughby Edward Bryan Game (not found) 12/05/17