Device for making a printed ticket available

Abstract

A device for making a printed ticket available, the device being comprising at least three rollers or lines of wheels rotatable about respective parallel axes extending substantially transversely across the path of the ticket and situated, in end view, at the vertices of a triangle and defining two ticket pinch lines, one between a first roller and a second roller, and the other between said second roller and a third roller, a first deflector surface co-operates with the first roller to define a first guide for guiding the ticket from a ticket supply source to a first pinch line, a second deflector surface co-operates with the second roller to define a second guide for guiding the ticket from the first pinch line to a second pinch line, and the third roller co-operates with a third deflector surface to define a third guide for guiding the ticket from the second pinch line to a ticket collection channel, the three guides being inscribed within the above-mentioned triangle.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.