Ticket dispensing module
AssigneeFastrak Retail (UK) Limited
InventorsJohn Barrett, Stephen Matthews
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Abstract
A ticket dispenser comprising a housing body, a lockable housing door configured to close an opening in the housing body, a ticket dispensing aperture, a lockable security cover configured to prevent the removal of tickets through the aperture, and a lock assembly, wherein the lock assembly is configured to lock the housing door and security cover when in a first orientation, wherein the lock assembly is configured to lock the housing door and not to lock the security cover when in a second orientation, and wherein the lock assembly is configured not to lock the housing door or the security cover when in a third orientation.
Claims23
-8. (canceled)
A ticket dispensing module comprising:
- an elongate ticket dispensing aperture provided within a face of the ticket dispensing module, the elongate ticket dispensing aperture being a hole in the face of the ticket dispensing module that is elongate in a plane parallel to the face when a door of the ticket dispensing module is in a closed configuration;
- and
- a housing body having opposed first and second faces provided with complementary slideable engagement elements,
- the first slideable engagement element of a first housing body being engageable with the second slideable engagement element of a corresponding, second housing body, by relative displacement of the first and second housing bodies along a direction of elongation of their slideable engagement elements, wherein at least one of the slideable engagement elements is tapered along its direction of elongation,
- wherein the slideable engagement elements of the first and second faces of the housing bodies are configured to prevent separation of the housing bodies transverse to the direction of relative displacement when they are engaged.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.