Patents Assigned to SOI
  • Patent number: 4973253
    Abstract: A color indicating apparatus which comprises a plurality of concentric overlappingly arranged discs which are rotatably mounted on a pivot post which is carried by a base. Each disc is basically transparent and includes a plurality of windows with each window being colored to a certain percentage of screening. Each disc is a certain primary color with there normally being utilized four in number of discs with there being four primary colors. Mounted on the base is a locking device which is to be movable to engage with the peripheral edge of the overlapped discs so as to lock the discs when located in a selected position. The visually observable color of each window within the outer disc will assume various shades as determined by the color density of the overlapped windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1990
    Assignee: Soi Charles W. Perry Design Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Lynn H. Shook, Richard Lucir, Andrew J. Johnson, Kyle S. Paula, Frank S. Nuovo
  • Patent number: 4087092
    Abstract: The invention is a commercial or lottery instant game played with a ticket which bears a pre-printed number for the lottery game and no number for the commercial game. A random generated number is printed on the ticket for digit comparison with the pre-printed lottery number or digit sameness comparison of the printed random number on the commercial ticket. Sensing of the ticket stops a random number generator with a memory holding the random number developed on stopping. This number is printed on the ticket and displayed. In the absence of a ticket the device displays changing numbers as an attraction. The ticket may be validated by sensing and encoded with special information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1978
    Assignees: Tele Vend Inc., SOI
    Inventors: Stephen R. Krause, Max Goldman, Emanuel Gnat