APPERATUS TO HIT DICE WITH MANUAL PRESS, SWITCH PRESS AND CAMERA RECORDING
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates the use of apparatus to hit the dice so that a new dice draw result can be obtained.
BACKGROUND ART
A dice is a piece of square object with each of its face marked a number of black dots, from one dot up to six dots, as a square having six faces. The number on the top surface is the draw result.
A sample of this dice is as shown in Fig. 1. In this article, this apparatus mainly uses the
“Five Dice to Represent Decimal Number 0 to 9” (passed to MyIPO on 26/Mar/2021, and cheque of RM290.00 being cleared on 01/Apr/2021) in the drawing to explain this apparatus functions.
For five dice to through by hand to ground may result in some dice bounce far away from user, making user hard to get them back every time after a through.
My invention is to use a transparent enclosed container to hold this dice inside so that this dice will not bounce out from this container after a hit. Main features of this apparatus are as below:
a) Having a transparent enclosed container to hold the dice.
b) Use a ball hit from the bottom of the dice holder so that the dice can be bounce up.
c) Having one manual push button to control the hit of dice.
d) Having one push button switch to control the hit of dice.
e) Having one camera on top of the dice to survey the dice (if this apparatus is connected online, a user can live streaming to see what is happening to the dice).
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
Fig. 1 shows the isometric view of a piece of dice.
Fig. 2 shows the left/front isometric view of the apparatus. 100 – Camera
101 – Transparent cover of dice holder
102 – Dice holder
103 – Ball bar
104 – Electric push pull cylinder 105 – Power cable for electric push pull cylinder
Fig. 3 shows the right/front isometric view of Fig. 2.
200 – Dice container (consists of dice holder and its transparent cover)
106 – Power and data cable for camera
107 – Hand bar
108 – Push button switch
109 – Cable for push button switch
110 – Controller to control the camera, push button switch and electric push pull cylinder function
111 – Screw to hold the rectangular structure to the base
112 – Type C female socket. 113 – Power cable for electric push pull cylinder
114 – Screw to hold the electric push pull cylinder to the base 115 – Rectangular structure
116 – Base
Fig. 4 shows the right isometric view of Fig. 2.
117 – Cable to supply power to the camera and for data exchange
118 – Screw to hold the push button switch to the rectangular structure
119 – Screw to hold the controller to the rectangular structure
120 – Screw to hold the rectangular structure to the base
121 – Hollow cylinder of the rectangular structure for hand bar to pass through
122 – Camera holder
Fig. 5 shows a closer look of the bottom left/back isometric
view of Fig. 2.
123 – Supporting beam 3
124 – Circular plate of the supporting beam 3
125 – Supporting beam 2
126 – Supporting beam 1
127 – Circular plate of the supporting beam 1
128 – Ball of the ball bar
129 – Thick circular plate of the dice holder
130 – Female screw threads of the base for screws to screw in
Fig. 6 shows a closer look of the left/back isometric
view of Fig. 2.
131 – Hole of the dice holder. It is for the supporting beam 2 to pass through
132 – Hollow cylinder with female screw thread of the dice holder. It is for the dice holder transparent cover to screw in.
Fig. 7 shows a closer look of the right/back isometric view of
Fig. 2.
133 – Push button switch cable connected to the controller
134 – Camera cable connected to the controller
135 – End round shape cylinder of the hand bar. This cylinder can be separated from the hand bar
136 – Rectangular plate of the ball bar. It is to hold the hand bar
137 – Pin of the ball bar to support the ball bar during its up/down swinging
Fig. 8 shows the left/back isometric view of the apparatus without the whole dice holding structure and cable in place.
138 – Circular plate of the hand bar. It is for the user finger to press on it.
140 – L structure to support the ball bar
141 – Screw to hold the L structure to the base 205 – Screw to hold the push button switch to the rectangular structure
206 – U shape extension beam of the rectangular structure. This is for the camera cable to fit into it
Fig. 9 shows the right/back isometric
view of Fig. 8.
Fig. 10 shows the front isometric view of the apparatus without the whole rectangular structure, its parts and cable in place.
142 – Screw to hold the camera holder to the supporting beam 3 143 – Female screw thread of the base for screw to screw in 144 – U shape structure of the camera holder for camera cable to sit on it
Fig. 11 shows the bottom right/back isometric view of Fig. 10.
Fig. 12 shows the parts disassembled bottom left/front isometric view of the dice holding structure.
145 – Hole of the dice holder. This hole is for the supporting beam 2 to pass through
129 – Thick circular plate of the dice holder.
147 – Male screw thread of the supporting beam 1. This screw thread will screw into the base 148 – Hole of the electric push pull cylinder for screw to pass through
Fig. 13 shows another parts disassembled bottom left/front isometric view of the dice holding structure.
149 – Female screw thread of the supporting beam 3. This is for the male screw thread of the supporting beam 2 to screw in 150 – Male screw thread of the dice holder transparent cover. This is where it will screw into the dice holder
151 – Male screw thread of the supporting beam 2. This is where it will screw into the female screw thread of the supporting beam 3
152 – Male screw thread of the supporting beam 2. This is where it will screw into the female screw thread of the supporting beam 1
Fig. 14 shows another parts disassembled bottom left/front isometric view of the dice holding structure.
153 – Cone shape structure of the camera
154 – Hole of the camera holder for screw to pass through
155 – Female screw thread of the camera holder for screw to screw in
156 – Big circular hole of the camera holder. It is for the camera cone shape structure to pass through
Fig. 15 shows another parts disassembled top left/front isometric view of the dice holding structure.
157 – Hole of the camera for screw to pass through
156 – Big circular hole of the camera holder
159 – Female screw thread of the supporting beam 3 for screw to screw in
Fig. 16 shows another parts disassembled top left/front isometric view of the dice holding structure.
160 – Female screw thread of the dice holder
161 – Hole of the dice holder
Fig. 17 shows the parts disassembled left/front isometric view of the whole rectangular structure and its parts only.
162 – Male screw thread of the hand bar to screw into the female screw thread of the end round shape cylinder
163 – Hollow cylinder of the rectangular structure. Its hole is for the hand bar to pass through 164 – Female screw thread of the rectangular structure for screw to hold the push button switch
165 – Pin of the ball bar
166 – Hole of the rectangular structure for screw to go through and screw into the base 167 – Hole of the L structure for screw to go through and screw into the base
168 – Hole of the L structure for pin of the ball bar to go through 210 – Hole of the push button switch for screw to go through and screw into the rectangular structure
Fig. 18 shows the right/back isometric view of Fig. 17.
169 – Hole of the rectangular structure for the push button switch cable to go through
170 – Female screw thread of the end round shape cylinder. This thread is for the hand bar male screw thread to screw in 207 – Hole of the controller. This hole is for screw to hold the controller to the rectangular structure
Fig. 19 shows the bottom right/back isometric
view of Fig. 17.
171 – Hollow cylinder of the rectangular structure. Its hole is for the hand bar to go through.
Fig. 20 shows the top left/front isometric view of Fig. 17.
Fig. 21 shows the right/back isometric view of the apparatus with dice being bounce up after in direct hit by the shaft of the electric push pull cylinder. This happened after user pressed the push button switch.
172 – Push button switch being pressed down
173 – Shaft of the electric push pull cylinder being pushed up after energized
174 – Dice bounce up due to in direct hit by the shaft of the electric push pull cylinder
Fig. 22 shows the right/front isometric view of Fig. 21.
Fig. 23 shows the right/front isometric view of the apparatus with dice being bounce up due to indirect hit by the ball bar. This happened after the user pressed down the hand bar.
175 – User finger pressed down the hand bar
Fig. 24 shows the right/back isometric view of Fig. 23.
176 – Ball bar swing up and hit the bottom of the dice holder.
Fig. 25 shows the left/front isometric view of the apparatus without the camera system in place.
177 – Supporting beam 2 with circular plate on top of it
Fig. 26 shows the left/back isometric view of Fig. 25.
Fig. 27 shows the left/front isometric view of the apparatus with simple design, which consists of the dice holding structure, ball bar and the hand bar only.
Fig. 28 shows the right/back isometric view of Fig. 27.
Fig. 29 shows the top left/front isometric view of Fig. 27, with the supporting beam 2 being displaced up a distance from the apparatus.
178 – Circular plate of the supporting beam 2
179 – Male screw thread of the supporting beam 2.
Fig. 30 shows the right/front isometric view of Fig. 27, with dice being bounce up due to user pressed the hand bar down.
180 – User finger pushed down the hand bar
181 – Rectangular plate of the ball bar being pushed down by the hand bar
182 – Ball of the ball bar being pushed up and hit the bottom of the dice holder
183 – Dice bounce up due to in direct hit by the ball bar
Fig. 31 shows the left/back isometric view of Fig. 30.
