Dave wrote:Just put up my latest video.
It is about the A.C. Multi-Bell.
I purchased this machine a month or so ago and finally found time to do a YT video on it.
https://youtu.be/-CjZqNXtWLg
Many thanks, Dave-- I've collected all sorts of pictures, scans of brochures, descriptions, etc. regarding this machine over the years, yet I never managed to make any sense of how it was supposed to operate until I watched your video. I used to read the captions and instructions and study the indicators all around the reel window over and over again, and just go "Whaaa--?!?"
Here's some odds-and-ends I had run across years ago-- and I think I already posted something about this somewhere on your forum, so I apologize in advance if I already bored everybody with this stuff-- at any rate, somebody named "Harry E. Knupp" obtained patents for the design of the Caille "Moderne" penny scale back in the early '30s. I am convinced that this same gentleman was responsible for the design of the nearly contemporaneous Caille "Dictator" slot machine
(clubconsoles: are you listening?), given the gem-cut, stacked-triangles motifs and the corresponding (and equally objectionable) puce-and-black original color scheme option available for both of these items. Oddly, a later patent issued to Mr. Knupp apparently covers the design of your Multi-Bell cabinet.
Harry E. Knupp was Adolph Caille's son-in-law.