ROULETTE WHEELS

摘要

Improvements to roulette wheels are disclosed. Sensors (20) around the inner upper edge of the housing surrounding the rotatable portion of the wheel monitor, the passage of the roulette ball before it drops on to the rotating wheel. Separately, the position of the ball once it has dropped into a pocket is sensed. The bases of the pockets (7) in the rotating wheel portion (1) may be radiation transparent enabling the detection of a roulette ball once it has lodged in one of the pockets (7) and, via positional encoding of the rotatable portion of the wheel (26), the number associated with the pocket in which the ball has come to rest, i.e. the winning number for that play, may be automatically detected and then displayed, enabling sensor-equipped wheels to look identical to a traditional wheel, but to be used in roulette games where some at least of the players are located remotely from the wheel itself.