Dispensing display container for lottery tickets
AssigneePollard Banknote Limited
InventorMichael John Brickwood
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Abstract
Lottery tickets are dispensed to the public for sale by providing a flat blank of a foldable cardboard material which can be erected to form a disposable container shaped to receive only the fan folded stack of the tickets. An opening in a front wall is formed with a horizontal dispensing slot and a vertical slot. The outside of the container is printed with the same game graphics as the tickets. The container is dedicated only to the particular game and can be used as a single use dispensing container for unusual shape tickets or for promoting new games.
Claims15
A method of dispensing lottery tickets comprising:
- providing a supply of lottery tickets each having a lottery game thereon;
- each lottery ticket having printed thereon lottery game indicia of the lottery game which indicia are covered by a removable covering allowing a player to remove the covering and expose the indicia for playing the game;
- each lottery ticket having printed thereon game graphics identifying the lottery game;
- providing a dispensing container shaped and arranged to contain the supply within a hollow interior of the container;
- providing on the dispensing container an opening arranged for dispensing through the opening of the lottery tickets from within the container for sale to the player;
- and supplying the dispensing container as at least one flat blank of foldable sheet material and erecting the at least one flat blank of foldable sheet material to form the dispensing container with said hollow interior and said opening for receiving the supply.
A combination comprising:
- a supply of lottery tickets each having a lottery game thereon;
- each lottery ticket having printed thereon lottery game indicia of the lottery game which indicia are covered by a removable covering allowing a player to remove the covering and expose the indicia for playing the game;
- each lottery ticket having printed thereon game graphics identifying the lottery game;
- and a dispensing container for containing the supply within a hollow interior of the container;
- the dispensing container an opening arranged for dispensing through the opening of the lottery tickets from within the container for sale to the player;
- the dispensing container comprising a flat blank of foldable sheet material which is shaped and arranged so that when erected it forms bottom, top, front, rear and side walls defining the dispensing container with said hollow interior for receiving the supply;
- the dispensing container having printed on an outside surface of the sheet material the game graphics identifying the lottery game.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.