The Bell-Fruit Gum Company stole Charles Fey's original concept of money slot machines and created a slot machine lookalike that dispensed bubble gum. The Mills Novelty Company, Incorporated of Chicago was once a leading manufacturer of coin-operated machines, including slot machines, vending machines, and jukeboxes, in the United States.Between about 19, the company's products included the Mills Violano-Virtuoso and its predecessors, celebrated machines that automatically played a violin and, after about 1909, a piano. By 1919 the US Government had also banned the consumption and supplying of alcohol. The first machine to display these fruit symbols was the Operator Bell created by Mills Novelty Company. The fruit was a symbol of the flavoured sweets and gum to be won and the black bar was the Bell-Fruit Gum Company trade mark.
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