WO2010141823A1 - Chargeur de billets pour machine de distribution instantanée de billets - Google Patents

Chargeur de billets pour machine de distribution instantanée de billets Download PDF

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WO2010141823A1
WO2010141823A1 PCT/US2010/037412 US2010037412W WO2010141823A1 WO 2010141823 A1 WO2010141823 A1 WO 2010141823A1 US 2010037412 W US2010037412 W US 2010037412W WO 2010141823 A1 WO2010141823 A1 WO 2010141823A1
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Kurt L. Businger
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/42—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for ticket printing or like apparatus, e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B3/00—Machines for issuing preprinted tickets
    • G07B3/04—Machines for issuing preprinted tickets from a stack
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B5/00—Details of, or auxiliary devices for, ticket-issuing machines
    • G07B5/02—Details of, or auxiliary devices for, ticket-issuing machines for cutting-off or separating tickets
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F11/00—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles
    • G07F11/68—Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles in which the articles are torn or severed from strips or sheets
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2408/00—Specific machines
    • B65H2408/10—Specific machines for handling sheet(s)
    • B65H2408/13—Wall or kiosk dispenser, i.e. for positively handling or holding material until withdrawal by user
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/10—Handled articles or webs
    • B65H2701/18—Form of handled article or web
    • B65H2701/182—Piled package
    • B65H2701/1824—Web material folded in zig-zag form

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  • the present invention relates to article dispensing systems, and more particularly to an article, system and method for improving lottery ticket dispensing systems.
  • Lottery ticket dispensing machines typically store packs of lottery tickets in fan-folded form and dispense the tickets in an automated fashion in order to reduce clerical involvement and facilitate efficient ticket processing.
  • Each ticket pack typically contains up to three hundred individual tickets, each of which is joined to an adjacent ticket by perforation or some other line of weakness to facilitate separation.
  • the ticket packs may be taped together such that there may potentially be up to 1 ,200 tickets or more in a continuous pack.
  • the ticket packs typically range from four to twelve inches in length, and from one to three inches in height.
  • a ticket dispensing machine 10 for dispensing lottery tickets is provided with a drawer 12 for receiving packs of tickets 14 to be dispensed.
  • the ticket packs are typically fan- folded and rest in a stack until processed.
  • the machine will typically include one or more guide rollers 15 and a burster element 16 having feed rollers 13 and a powered ticket transport mechanism 18 for processing tickets through a slot 20.
  • the guide roller(s) can be permanently or removably secured into the drawer and made part of the overall machine.
  • sheets of the ticket pack are lifted, guided over the roller 15 and fed into the bursting element 16.
  • the ticket sheet On command from a main controller (not shown), the ticket sheet is advanced one length, separated by the burster element 16 and delivered to the ticket chute or slot 20.
  • the force required to pull a ticket over the roller can be very high, as much as two pounds per square inch or more. The force is typically sufficient to pull the ticket stack at a rate of approximately seven to eight inches per second.
  • this force is not constant depending on the position of the curls and the height of the ticket stack, and since the feed rollers of the bursting element are required to pull the ticket into the bursting element, the varying force can create slippage, resulting in a mis-cut that affects every further ticket downstream. Further, the greater the force that is applied by the feed roller of the bursting element in pulling the ticket over the guide roller, the greater the chances are that the perforation on the tickets in the drawer will be broken, requiring shut down of the machine until it can be fixed.
  • the present invention provides a solution to the above shortcomings and more.
  • the present invention provides a ticket magazine that can be inserted into a drawer of a ticket dispensing machine.
  • the magazine can be loaded with tickets externally from the machine, which facilitates accurate and faster overall loading.
  • the ticket magazine provides an element or elements such as one or more bridging fingers and/or a dancer arm that eliminate the need for a guide roller and all of the associated problems therewith, including the S-curls described above.
  • the ticket magazine of the present invention can permit loading of standard ticket pack lengths and heights, while also enabling the tickets to travel along a more advantageous ticket path with longer curl diameters. Because of the larger curl diameter, the pull force required to peel a ticket from the stack is reduced and remains substantially constant.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic drawing depicting a side view of a portion of a traditional ticket dispensing machine, with a side wall removed to show the interior thereof.
  • Fig. 2 is a photograph of a ticket dispensing machine with a loaded ticket pack.
  • Fig. 3 is a photograph of one embodiment of a ticket magazine in accordance with the present invention.
  • Fig. 4 is a photograph showing the ticket magazine of Fig. 3 atop a ticket dispensing machine in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 5 is a photograph showing the ticket magazine of Fig. 3 inserted within a drawer of a ticket dispensing machine in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 6 is a side view of an alternative embodiment of a ticket magazine in accordance with the present invention, with a wall removed to show the interior of the magazine.
  • Fig. 7 is a side view of a ticket dispensing machine in accordance with the present invention, with a ticket magazine held within a drawer thereof, and with a wall of the machine and the magazine removed to show the interiors thereof.
  • the present invention provides a ticket magazine 30 that can be inserted into a drawer 32 of a ticket dispensing machine 35.
  • the ticket magazine is formed of a durable plastic material using a mold and thermal-forming equipment.
  • the magazine 30 can be provided with a floor 36 having a tread liner element 38 that can be formed as part of the floor during formation of the magazine, or that can be secured to the floor 36 as a separate element by glue, tape or other known method.
  • the magazine 30 includes lead 40 and side 44 walls, as well as an end wall support member 43 that includes end wall 42.
  • the lead 40 and side 44 walls can be integrally formed with and extend substantially perpendicularly from the floor 36, such that the lead and side walls are also substantially perpendicular to one another.
  • the end wall support member 43 is integrally formed with and extends from a top edge 45 of each side wall 44, and includes a lower portion 47, an upper portion 49 as well as a lead edge 101 and a back edge 103.
  • the end wall support extends from the top edge 45 of each side wall at an angle extending from the lower portion thereof to the upper portion thereof in a direction away from the lead wall 40.
  • the end wall 42 itself does not extend from the floor, but rather extends from the lower portion of the end wall support 43 at a position "A" approximately co-planar with the top edge 45 of the side walls 44.
  • the end wall 42 extends along the same angle and is integral with the back edge 103 of the end wall support member.
  • the end wall is formed with an angle so as to abut a burster element in substantially flush relation as described elsewhere herein.
  • the lead edge 101 of the end wall support member 43 can extend at a different angle from that of the end wall 42, in one embodiment of the present invention.
  • the bottom edge 50 of the end wall 42 combines with the back edges 52 of the side walls 44 and the floor 36 to form an opening 54, which can be used to insert or unload ticket packs in one embodiment of the present invention.
  • the lead wall 40 and the side walls 44 define an inner compartment 55 for holding the ticket stack.
  • there is no opening 54 and the end wall 42 extends from the floor 36 to the end wall support member upper portion 49. In such an embodiment, ticket stacks can be fed into the ticket magazine from the top.
  • the end wall 42 includes an inner face 56 from which extend one or more bridging fingers 58, which can be integrally formed with the end wall.
  • the fingers 58 include a substantially linear back edge 60 that lies substantially coplanar with a top edge 62 of the end wall 42.
  • the fingers 58 can also include a rounded tip section 64 and an arcuate or concave lead edge section 66 sloping downwardly from the tip section to substantially mate with the end wall inner face 56.
  • several fingers 58 are employed across the width W of the end wall 42, extending substantially parallel to one another and substantially parallel with a ticket dispensing path 59.
  • a single solid bridging finger or roller member extends substantially across the width W of the end wall 42.
  • the lead wall 40 of the ticket magazine 30 includes a top edge 70 and a dancer arm 72 extending from the top edge 70 into the inner compartment 55.
  • the dancer arm 72 acts as a guide to the ticket pack as it is being transported along ticket path 59 through the ticket dispensing machine.
  • the dancer arm 72 includes an inner edge 74 and a lip member 76 extending downwardly from the inner edge 74 and substantially parallel to the lead wall 40.
  • the side walls 44 can include a lead facing portion 80 that extends higher than the mid portion 79, which can add support to the magazine 30 and help contain ticket packs within the inner compartment 55.
  • a ticket pack 40 is placed in the inner compartment 55 of the magazine 30 so as to rest on top of the floor 36 and any tread liner element 38.
  • the magazine is typically removed from the drawer and ticket dispensing machine during loading. Once the ticket pack is in the magazine, it can be transported to the machine and placed within the drawer.
  • the drawer 32 is within a housing 33 of the ticket dispensing machine 35, as more specifically described, for example, in U.S. Patent No. 7,467,738, which has been incorporated herein by reference.
  • the ticket dispensing machine can be a machine such as a GameGuardTM machine provided by the assignee of the present invention; however, it will be appreciated that other configurations and designs for the machine, drawer and housing associated with the present invention may be used and employed with the present invention.
  • the ticket dispensing machine can include room for a single magazine, or more likely for a plurality of magazines such that the retail operator can sell and dispense multiple ticket types related to multiple lottery games from the same dispensing machine.
  • the ticket dispensing machine includes a burster element 75 that can handle several (e.g., four) magazines per drawer, wherein multiple drawers are arranged in vertical fashion for display and merchandising of the different lottery tickets.
  • the burster element 75 has an internal facing wall 105, which is angled to suit the orientation required for the burster element to operate properly.
  • the buster element internal facing wall 105 can abut the end wall 42 of the ticket magazine 30 in substantially flush relation over substantially the entire back or exterior face 107 of the end wall 42. This arrangement adds stability to the present invention.
  • the drawers are typically capable of being moved to and between an extended position for convenient access to load and unload the magazines, and a retracted position in which the drawer and magazines are contained in the machine for display and dispensing of tickets.
  • the magazines can be loaded at the same time, or at different times depending upon how quickly the individual packs of tickets are dispensed.
  • the present invention offers a system that more readily facilitates individual pack replacement.
  • a separator element 81 is secured to a ceiling portion 82 of the drawer 32 of the ticket dispensing machine 35 to assist in minimizing curls along the ticket path 59.
  • the separator element extends into the inner compartment 55 and can be secured through mechanical means such as double-sided tape, glue or hardware fasteners, for example.
  • the present invention facilitates larger curls 85 for the tickets as they travel along ticket path 59, thereby reducing drag and the chances for ticket jamming, mis-cutting and other problems identified above.

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La présente invention concerne un chargeur de billets pouvant être introduit dans un tiroir d'une machine de distribution de billets. Le chargeur peut être chargé de billets depuis l'extérieur de la machine, et comprend un ou des élément(s) tel(s) qu'un(e) ou des pinces de liaison et/ou bras danseur pour permettre le déplacement des billets le long d'un chemin de billets plus avantageux avec des diamètres de roulage plus longs. Grâce au diamètre de roulage plus long, l'effort de traction requis pour prélever un billet d'une pile est réduit et reste sensiblement constant, permettant ainsi d'éviter tout risque de bourrage, de coupe inappropriée de billets et d'autres problèmes.
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