Patents by Inventor Anthony J. Lorraine

Anthony J. Lorraine has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4583736
    Abstract: An apparatus for randomly selecting combinations of numbers for lottery-type games of chance. In the preferred embodiment, the invention comprises an adaptor hood which sits on a downsized, bingo-ball blower. The hood includes a lower access hole to receive lightweight numbered balls from an underlying blower chamber in which the balls are blown about; a spring-biased selector arm that normally straddles and blocks the hole, but which can be manually pivoted to allow a ball to pop up the hole and which can then be released to spring back and kick the ball away during its return movement; an adjacent inclined ramp that receives the kicked ball to feed it downwardly; and a clear display chute that catches the balls from the ramp and allows them to be viewed by a user.To operate the selector, a player pulls a control end of the selector arm that extends beyond the hood. This causes a ball to be blown up into the adaptor hood and trapped under a finger mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1986
    Inventor: Anthony J. Lorraine