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US 12,725,479 B2Granted
Lottery ticket vending machine with random ticket selection related features
AssigneeBrightstar Global Solutions Corporation
InventorsRaymond Leland, Apostolos D. Kallis, Medina Marie Topalian, Giancarlo Perrotta
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Abstract
A lottery ticket vending machine configured to determine a vending machine selected instant lottery ticket from available instant lottery tickets in a plurality of ticket drawers, cause a ticket burster to move to the ticket receipt position associated with the ticket drawer associated with the vending machine selected instant lottery ticket, and cause the ticket burster to dispense the vending machine selected instant lottery ticket from the ticket drawer associated with the vending machine selected instant lottery ticket.
Claims20
A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a ticket drawer holder positioned in the housing, the ticket drawer holder comprising a plurality of ticket drawers, each of the ticket drawers configured to hold a pack of instant lottery tickets;
- a ticket receptacle supported by the housing;
- a ticket burster positioned in the housing, the ticket burster movable to a plurality of different ticket receipt positions, each different ticket receipt position associated with and in alignment with a different one of the plurality of ticket drawers, wherein in each ticket receipt position the ticket burster is configured to receive from the ticket drawer associated with that ticket receipt position an instant lottery ticket attached to a next instant lottery ticket, separate the instant lottery ticket from the next instant lottery ticket, and dispense the instant lottery ticket into the ticket receptacle;
- a controller comprising a processor and memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- randomly determine a vending machine selected instant lottery ticket from available instant lottery tickets in the plurality of ticket drawers,
- cause the ticket burster to move to the ticket receipt position associated with the ticket drawer associated with the vending machine selected instant lottery ticket, and
- cause the ticket burster to dispense the vending machine selected instant lottery ticket from the ticket drawer associated with the vending machine selected instant lottery ticket.
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A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a ticket drawer holder positioned in the housing, the ticket drawer holder comprising a plurality of ticket drawers, each of the ticket drawers configured to hold a pack of instant lottery tickets;
- a ticket receptacle supported by the housing;
- a ticket burster positioned in the housing, the ticket burster movable to a plurality of different ticket receipt positions, each different ticket receipt position associated with and in alignment with a different one of the plurality of ticket drawers, wherein in each ticket receipt position the ticket burster is configured to receive from the ticket drawer associated with that ticket receipt position an instant lottery ticket attached to a next instant lottery ticket, separate the instant lottery ticket from the next instant lottery ticket, and dispense the instant lottery ticket into the ticket receptacle;
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- a controller comprising a processor and memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- randomly determine a vending machine selected instant lottery ticket held by one the plurality of ticket drawers from a plurality of different lottery tickets held by the plurality of ticket drawers,
- cause a randomly determined sequences of movements of the ticket burster,
- cause the ticket burster to move to the ticket receipt position associated with the ticket drawer that holds the vending machine selected instant lottery ticket, and
- cause the ticket burster to dispense the vending machine selected instant lottery ticket from that drawer.
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A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a ticket drawer holder positioned in the housing, the ticket drawer holder comprising a plurality of ticket drawers, each of the ticket drawers configured to hold a pack of instant lottery tickets;
- a ticket receptacle supported by the housing;
- a ticket burster positioned in the housing, the ticket burster movable to a plurality of different ticket receipt positions, each different ticket receipt position associated with and in alignment with a different one of the plurality of ticket drawers, wherein in each ticket receipt position the ticket burster is configured to receive from the ticket drawer associated with that ticket receipt position an instant lottery ticket attached to a next instant lottery ticket, separate the instant lottery ticket from the next instant lottery ticket, and dispense the instant lottery ticket into the ticket receptacle;
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- a controller comprising a processor and memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- determine a non-randomly determined vending machine selected instant lottery ticket from available instant lottery tickets in the plurality of ticket drawers,
- cause a randomly determined movement of the ticket burster,
- cause the ticket burster to move to the ticket receipt position associated with the determined vending machine selected instant lottery ticket, and
- cause the ticket burster to dispense the vending machine selected instant lottery ticket.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.