Article dispensing – Processes
Patent
1995-09-14
1997-08-19
Noland, Kenneth
Article dispensing
Processes
364412, B65G 5900
Patent
active
056578997
ABSTRACT:
A lottery ticket dispensing system is for pull-tab lottery tickets of the type that include a plurality of normally closed windows that can be opened to reveal play symbols thereunder with some of the play symbols being winning symbols. Each of the lottery tickets is provided bar code markings including ticket information for indicating each of the play symbols as aligned with its respective window. A lottery ticket dispensing machine includes a ticket storage area and means for initiating the dispensing of the ticket from the storage area to the front panel of the machine. When the ticket is being dispensed, it is aligned with a bar code reading device that is operably connected to electronic control circuitry of the machine that receives and stores the ticket information included in the bar code markings of the dispensed ticket. The front panel of the machine includes a plurality of display areas and associated switches that correspond to the windows of the ticket. Selective activation of each switch causes the electronic control circuitry to generate a display symbol in the corresponding display area which indicates the play symbol that is under the selected window of the ticket. The ticket information also includes winning information and the electronic control circuitry will receive and store the winning information in order to generate a winning indication in a separate winning display area on the front panel when any of the play symbols are winning symbols.
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Cory Consultants, Inc.
Noland Kenneth
Sherman James L.
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