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US 2025/0046158 A1Published application
Lottery ticket vending machine
AssigneeIGT Global Solutions Corporation
InventorsPaul A. Bucci, Stewart Thoeni
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Abstract
A lottery ticket vending machine configured to determine, for each of a plurality of ticket drawers, if lottery tickets are in the ticket drawer, and to take one or more actions based on such determinations.
Claims20
A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a ticket drawer in the housing, the ticket drawer configured to hold lottery tickets;
- a ticket indicator assembly comprising a ticket engaging roller in the ticket drawer and a movable gauge connected to the ticket drawer;
- a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster defining a ticket inlet and a ticket outlet, the ticket burster movable to a position associated with and the ticket drawer;
- a sensor supported by the ticket burster, configured to sense a position of the gauge to obtain data based on a quantity of lottery tickets in the ticket drawer, and configured to transmit the data;
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- a controller configured to receive the data from the sensor, and determine the quantity of lottery tickets in the ticket drawer.
4 more elements
A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a plurality of ticket drawers in the housing, each ticket drawer configured to hold lottery tickets;
- a plurality of ticket indicator assemblies in the housing, each ticket indicator assembly associated with a different one of the drawers;
- a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster defining a ticket inlet and a ticket outlet, the ticket burster movable to different positions respectively associated with the ticket drawers;
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- a sensor supported by the ticket burster, the sensor configured to, for each of the ticket drawers, sense a position of part of the ticket indicator assembly associated with that ticket drawer to obtain data based on a quantity of lottery tickets in the ticket drawer, and configured to transmit the data to a controller to determine a quantity of lottery tickets in the ticket drawer.
3 more elements
A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a ticket drawer in the housing configured to hold lottery tickets;
- a ticket indicator assembly connected to the ticket drawer;
- a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster defining a ticket inlet and a ticket outlet, the ticket burster movable to a position associated with and the ticket drawer;
- a sensor supported by the ticket burster, configured to sense a position of part of the ticket indicator assembly, and configured to transmit data based on the position of the part of the ticket indicator assembly;
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- a controller configured to receive the data from the sensor, and determine a quantity of lottery tickets that are in the ticket drawer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.