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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 1985
Filed:
Jul. 06, 1984
Ronald G Albright, Canton, OH (US);
William D Albright, Canton, OH (US);
Fork, Inc., New Philadelphia, OH (US);
Abstract
A portable hand held apparatus for randomly selecting by chance a plurality of numbers particularly suitable for lottery selections. A plurality of buoyant cubes are contained in the fluid tight generally opaque container. The container has a window for viewing a predetermined number of the cubes temporarily trapped and arranged adjacent the window after agitating the container by a user. A cube receiving channel is formed within the container adjacent the window for releasably trapping a desired number of cubes adjacent the window. The fluid and buoyant cubes provide a pleasing movement of the cubes within the container when agitated by the user and randomly come to rest adjacent the viewing window.