(19)
(11) EP 0 253 584 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
11.05.1988 Bulletin 1988/19

(43) Date of publication A2:
20.01.1988 Bulletin 1988/03

(21) Application number: 87306102

(22) Date of filing: 10.07.1987
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE ES NL

(30) Priority: 12.07.1986 GB 8617044

(71) Applicant: Bell-Fruit Manufacturing Company Limited
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(72) Inventor:
  • Chadwick, Neville Dale
     ()

   


(54) Gaming and amusement machines


(57) In a fruit machine (1) which has rotatable reels (2) separate flat panel graphic display screens (3 and 4) are provided respectively alongside and above the reels (2). The displays on the screens (3 and 4) are controlled by a central control unit (6) which receives its instructions from an 'artwork scene' store (8) containing several different artwork programs thereby enabling different artwork to be displayed on the machine without changing the screens (3 and 4). The artwork may be displayed on the screens by means of one of the following; a cathode ray tube, an electro-luminescent display, a vacuum fluorescent display, a gas discharge display, or a liquid crystal display.







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