Mills Puritan question

[kentdun]

I did find a matching serial number on the front door. I didn't think they'd put a number on a removable part.
Something else I have noticed in looking at pics of other Puritans. They have different payout cards. Mine pays on cherry cherry lemon / bell / bargum . Others have cherry cherry ANY. In playing it cherry cherry seems to come up fairly often. We're different straps available for these?

[Frank]

Does anyone know a source or size of the screw in feet on the Puritan Bell?

[Frank]

I have a Jennings Puritan Girl nickel, aluminum, tin fruit strips with 4:1 profit share SN 1,203

[rogers1313]

I have two mills puritan bells. The one on the left is serial number 1176. The one on the right is serial 10429. Both are aluminum and both are nickel machines.
The 1176 has "A" style castings and the 10429 had "B" style castings. The front is not removable on the 1176. only the top tray is apparently removalable on this model. The 10429 machine has a removable front.

The mechanisms appear to be very similar except the coin entry on the tops are different. I am missing the cam for the divide pay on 1176. It has a knurled bolt that held it on. While the 10429 unit has a more permanent cam. It looks to me that the older Puritan bell may have had changeable cams on it. Can anyone verify this?

This has gotten to be very interesting. Every Puritan bell that I can find pictures of is like the 10429. I have not seen a picture of the 1176 model.
Roger

Also the castings on 1176 on much cleaner than on the 10429 unit.

[terick2104]

Your 1176 Puritan Bell top cash box casting, which unfortunately is missing, is a more detailed casting without the award card frame. The award card would be mounted underneath the casting. Maybe Bill Whelan can tell us more about the earlier machine.

[SLOT DYNASTY]

Your 1176 Puritan Bell top cash box casting, which unfortunately is missing, is a more detailed casting without the award card frame. The award card would be mounted underneath the casting. Maybe Bill Whelan can tell us more about the earlier machine.

Yes, the early model "Puritan Bell", had the removable, fancy top award card casting, as opposed to the later model,
with the fixed award card platform, and the removable front door. Someone mentioned to me recently, that they were
amazed that a company would put a serial number on a removable part, like the front door. I totally agree. It is rather
silly, as many times, doors were taken off, and misplaced. Therefore, no serial info. Most all of these machines also had
a small paper, with a red serial number, glued inside the case, but the glue usually dried-out, and they fell off, which is
why you will see a small brown spot where the tag once was.
Another feature that I failed to note in my early reports, was the fact that the nickel play machines had two different
coin entries. One is straight up, while the other slants forward. I do not know at what point they changed this, or if they
were random. I have never noticed a quarter play with the slanted entry as yet.

Now for a little "Puritan Bell" serial number nostalgia:
For the 5c play, I have a low of 1093, and a high of 18811. Many of these need to be updated with the coin entry type,
as well as reel strips. Most had fruit symbols, but several also had number strips, as are found on the earlier "Puritan".
So far, I only have 10 serials on file for the 25c play. They range from 4202, (which is my own, and was factory gaffed),
up to 8934. These are all the numbers: (4202, 6016, 6179, 6678, 7042, 7076, 7137, 7332, 7406, 8934). I have asked about
half the owners of these 25c models, if they found a gaff, as on mine, but nothing so far. It would be interesting to find a
couple of more, especially with a consecutive serial next to mine, which would indicate that someone had ordered more
than just one at that time. A multitude of slots were bugged over the years, but on a small 10 symbol - 10 stop counter
machine, with no way to ever get three bars. That's really tight!