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
1893 16261 E Carroll and L D Carroll Horse race game 12/05/17
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
1894 GB189318741Robert William Page Coin-freed measuring & weighing 15/11/17
1894 2679 Frank Harvey Urry Rifle ranges or shooting galleries 12/05/17
1894 3112 George Haydon & Frank Harvey Urry Coin freed machines (not found) 12/05/17
1894 8486 George Haydon & Frank Harvey Urry Coin freed machines (not found) 12/05/17
1894 10674 George Haydon & Frank Harvey Urry Coin freed machines (not found) 12/05/17
1894 GB189319620J R Hughes & George Haydon Coin released mechanism 19/03/18
1894 12550 George Haydon & Frank Harvey Urry Coin freed opt. illusion prize shooter (not found) 12/05/17
1894 15759 T E Halford (H Siefert & G Jaeger) Musical weighing machine 12/05/17
1894 GB189420360John Nevil Maskelyne Improvements in Check or Coin-freed (toilet) Locks or Bolts for Doors 09/07/21
1894 20475 W E Thompson & another Coin freed gas & fluid meters 12/05/17
1894 22217 W E Thompson & another Coin freed gas & fluid meters 12/05/17
1895 6763 George De Melven Race game: pole climbers 12/05/17
1895 GB189500268James Sykes Football (soccer) game with individual end controls (not coin-op) 20/04/20
1895 7190 E Mahlke Coin freed musical box with tune selector 12/05/17
1895 7340 George De Melven Race game: figure works 12/05/17
1895 GB189406469Charles Ingrey 'The Pugilists' - toy boxers etc. 12/05/17
1895 24485 George Haydon & Frank Harvey Urry Coin freed gas meter 13/05/17
1895 14439 Henry Casler Zoetrope (mutoscope) 13/05/17
1895 7465 E Tippmann & O Keller Auto harps 13/05/17
1895 GB189421756George S Smith, George Haydon & Frank H Urry Licensed Victuallers' Shooting Range (Over the Barrels) 12/05/17
1895 CH10107Haydon & Urry Skill game (Over the Barrels) - Swiss patent 19/03/18
1896 CH11088Haydon & Urry Tivoli dispenser mechanism - Swiss patent 19/03/18
1896 GB189601322Thomas William Doughty & Charles Arthur Barrett 'The Racer', two player counter top horse race 13/05/17
1896 730 Charles Montague Linley Rolling table game 13/05/17
1896 18285 Walter Margot Shoot into channels game 13/05/17
1896 US552529George Hirschfeld Figural hen chocolate vendor 12/06/17
1896 13504 George Haydon & Frank Harvey Urry & another Vending 13/05/17
1896 11958 J L Mc Cullough Shooting gallery registration 13/05/17
1896 11469 E P Riessner (Polyphon) Tune-changer for disc musical box 13/05/17
1896 GB189610401George Cummings Coin-operated billiards 13/05/17
1896 9731Ernest George Matthewson 'Two Man Footballer', two player 13/05/17
1896 9035 George Haydon & Frank Harvey Urry & another Coin freed apparatus 13/05/17
1896 CH11088Haydon, Urry & Sommerville Tivoli dispenser mechanism 13/05/17
1897 10251 H D Bailey and H B Budgett Shooter 13/05/17
1897 24272 George Haydon & Frank Harvey Urry & another Coin freed apparatus 13/05/17
1897 25540 James Gilbert Cumming Billiards 13/05/17
1897 22763 A B Langham Zoetrope (mutoscope) 13/05/17
1897 17582 R S Crooks and F B Crooks Five reel card shuffler (not coin op?) 13/05/17
1897 GB189615577Walter Margot Games of skill 13/05/17
1898 GB189710251Harry Dorning Bailey & Harry Brogden Budgett Toy pistols and game apparatus 13/05/17
1898 26722 C Raleigh Moving pictures 13/05/17
1898 GB189725205Graydon Poore Coin-freed electric shock machines 13/05/17
1898 10685 Mutoscope & Biograph Syndicate & Joseph Mason Kinematograph 13/05/17
1898 9308 E Breslauer Self-changer for disc musical box 13/05/17
1898 20913 E Breslauer Self-changer for disc musical box 13/05/17
1898 8338 Elias Bernard Koopman Vendor, chute improvement 13/05/17
1898 GB189721540John Nevil Maskelyne Improvements relating to (toilet) Door Bolts and Indicators 09/07/21
1898 9412 C B Kirnise and C O Kirnise Shooting gallery 13/05/17
1898 1001 W H Cook and C H D Bauer Race game 13/05/17
1898 GB189824528Henry John Gerard Pessers Coin actuated fortune dial 21/02/21
1898 GB189725540George Cummings Coin-operated billiards 13/05/17
1898 GB189722555Haydon and Urry Ltd. and George Haydon Miniature billiards etc. 13/05/17
1899 US621440Harry Dorning Bailey & Harry Brogden Budgett. Pistol and skittles 10/06/17
1899 24877 W P Thompson (Fabrik Lochmann'scher Musikw.) Self-changing disc music box (Symphonion) 12/05/17
1899 16713 S Nafew Kinematograph 12/05/17
1899 GB189922627R E Wicks Pendulum coin shoot 12/05/17
1899 GB189825833Robert Harris Shaw & John Fletcher Shaw Counter top electromechanical football 13/05/17
1899 GB189900355Harry Geen Bucknell Skill game with balls on roulette-like table 10/05/20
1899 GB189825067Charles Frederic Stahlecker 'Sirdar Polyphon' combined Polyphon & shooter 13/05/17
1899 GB189912929Haydon & Urry Vending 12/05/17
1899 23200 E P Riessner Self-changer for disc musical box 12/05/17
1899 21520 C H Muller Tivoli 12/05/17
1899 GB189922582William Chancellor Haigh Race game (toy) 12/05/17
1899 24378 J Wellner Self-changing disc music box 12/05/17
1899 GB189913360W L Wise (L W Baldwin) Musical weighing machine (coin op?) 12/05/17
1899 GB189820603W P Thompson (G Bagrachow) Kinetescope 13/05/17
1899 21519 C H Muller Tivoli 12/05/17
1899 GB189811792George Haydon & Frank Harvey Urry Coin freed winding mechanism for polyphons etc. 12/05/17
1899 GB189815288G T Galley Game with disc 13/05/17
1899 USD31630Paul Raczek Figural hen chocolate vendor 12/06/17
1899 20361 F Ford Game with coins 12/05/17
1899 5569 Gustave Brachhausen Self-changer for disc musical box 12/05/17
1899 GB189813143C Raleigh Combined musical box & kinetoscope 13/05/17
1899 GB189919610Henry John Gerard Pessers Pickwick skill game 12/05/17
1899 3274 A F Spooner (Hanan & Gauthier) Kinematograph 12/05/17
1899 25486 Joseph Mason Kinematograph 12/05/17
1899 GB189923815F Humphris & G H Forster Game with coins 12/05/17
1899 GB189811824George Edward Tate & Walter Henry Godfrey Tug of war 13/05/17
1899 2143 Ernest George Matthewson Vendor improvement 13/05/17
1899 GB191109712Walter Shaw Newton, Fred Smith & William Rhodes Coin flick tivoli type 12/05/17
1899 GB189923972C J Leather& E Hollanders Game with coins 12/05/17
1899 1527 Mutoscope & Biograph Syndicate & Joseph Mason Coin actuator improvement 13/05/17
1899 GB189805669Henry John Gerard Pessers Prize vending coin game 22/02/21
1899 GB189813835Walter Margot Game of skill 12/05/17
1899 16883 W A Drysdale Self-changing Symphonion 12/05/17
1899 GB189808338Elias Bernard Koopman Kinetescope (Mutoscope) 12/06/17
1899 GB189900337Robert Ernest Wicks Navigate obstacle course in water 13/05/17
1900 9913 G Varrelman Self-changing disc musical box 13/05/17
1900 21215 H H Lake (B H Abrahams) Self-changing disc musical box 13/05/17
1900 13883 W Friese-Green Kine projector 13/05/17
1900 GB189916495Charles Middlebrook Coin-freed racing game 10/05/20