A Second Generation of Bell Machines
| Fey would not sell his Liberty Bell slots so the only way a competitor could obtain one was by larceny. This occurred in 1905 when the Mills Novelty Company of Chicago stole one from a San Francisco saloon. They produced a replica the next year using the same name and reel strips. Shortly afterwards, two other manufacturers, Caille Brothers and Watling Mfg. also began producing Liberty Bell slots, identical to the Mills machine | ||
 Mills 1906 Liberty Bell |
 Caille 1908 Liberty Bell |
 Mills 1910 Gum Vender |
| A gum vender was added to cash paying slots in 1910 so that they might be classified as vending machines. It was from the fruit flavored gum that the fruit symbols evolved and the bell came from the original Liberty Bell machines. | ||
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