Digital encoding and electronic scanning of drink cups

Details Digital encoding and electronic scanning of drink cups Digital encoding and electronic scanning of drink cups

1984-09-04

1986-03-04

Husar, Francis S.

Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturi

Container making

Rigid container

235383, 235464, 273138A, 273138R, 273139, 400103, 493 53, B31B 188

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045739544

ABSTRACT:
An arrangement for conducting an on-the-cup promotion in which promotional prize information is encoded onto each soft drink cup with an optically machine-readable code. The code is used with the promotion to identify whether a customer has won any of the different prizes available. In order to provide the needed variation and the completely random distribution of prizes needed for a fair game, each individual cup is separately encoded as it is being manufactured by a computer controlled printing station directly preceding a cup-forming machine. All of the necessary information on the number or prizes, the frequency of occurrence of each prize, and a program to randomize that frequency is placed in the computer software. A scanner at the point of sale scans the code, signals whether the cup is a prize winner or not, and delivers a printed ticket notifying winners of their prizes and how to redeem them.

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