- Mills Novelty Company Slot Machine Serial Numbers Listing
- Mills Novelty Company Slot Machine Serial Numbers And Dates
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The Mills Novelty Company Inc. Manufactured slot machines, vending machines, automatic music machines and jukeboxes. Mortimer Mills received a patent for a coin vending apparatus in the early 1890s. The company’s first upright slot machine was called the Mills Owl, introduced in 1897. This slot machine was housed in a late Victorian.
Vest Pocket Patents
Two of these are numbers from the coin slide and the others are Mills Novelty Co. 3-wheel slot patents.
783794 John L. Miller, Coin-Controlled Vending Machine, Feb 28, 1905, 194/282; 221/196 - vend cigars from the original box (showing tax stamp)
Mills Novelty Company Slot Machine Serial Numbers Listing
1697537Coin-controlled machine, Fred L Mills, Mills Novelty Co, Jan 1, 1929, 221/124, 273/143.00R, 194/300, 312/49, 221/277, 221/131, 221/155 - 3-wheel slot machine
1677647Safety-catch device, Mills Fred L, Mills Novelty Co, Jul 17, 1928, 221/13, 221/152, 453/38, 221/206, 273/143.00R, 221/264, 221/270 - for above 3-wheel slot machine
1767602Coin-controlled vending machine, Fred L Mills, Mills Novelty Co, Jun 24, 1930, 273/143.00R - 3-wheel slot machine
1854479Coin-operated machine, Fred L Mills, Mills Novelty Co, Apr 19, 1932, 273/143.00R, 194/290 - 3-wheel slot machine
Mills Novelty Company Slot Machine Serial Numbers And Dates
1908380Coin slide, Walter A Tratsch, Monarch Tool & Mfg Company, May 9, 1933, 194/291 -
1908752Coin controlled device, Louis M Hall, Monarch Tool & Mfg Company, Walter A Tratsch, May 16, 1933, 94/291 -