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US 2025/0166445 A1Published application
Lottery ticket vending machine
AssigneeIGT Global Solutions Corporation
InventorsMedina Marie Topalian, Robert Corvese, Paul A. Bucci
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Abstract
A lottery ticket vending machine configured to obtain code image data (such as bar code image data) from a leading lottery ticket in each of the lottery drawers in the lottery ticket vending machine, and use the code image data for activating or verifying activation of the lottery tickets loaded in the ticket drawers. This expedites the ticket loading process by eliminating the need for an operator to manually and/or separately scan a code (such as a bar code) for each ticket pack loaded into the ticket drawers.
Claims20
A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- ticket drawers in the housing, each of the ticket drawers configured to hold a pack of lottery tickets;
- a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster defining a ticket inlet and a ticket outlet, the ticket burster movable to a plurality of different ticket receipt positions each respectively associated with and in alignment with a different one of the ticket drawers, the ticket burster comprising a sensor;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device storing a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to, in a ticket loading mode, cause the ticket burster to, for each of the ticket drawers:
- move the ticket burster into the ticket receipt position associated with that ticket drawer,
- cause a leading lottery ticket of a lottery ticket pack in the ticket drawer to move into the ticket burster such that a bar code of the leading lottery ticket passes through a scan area associated with the sensor,
- cause the sensor to scan the barcode of that lottery ticket,
- receive the barcode image data from the sensor,
- cause retraction of the lottery ticket from the ticket burster back into the ticket drawer, and
- use the barcode image data to activate or verify activation of the pack of lottery tickets in the ticket drawer.
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A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- ticket drawer columns in the housing, each of the ticket drawer columns including ticket drawers each configured to hold a pack of lottery tickets;
- ticket bursters in the housing, each ticket burster associated with a different one of the ticket drawer columns, each ticket burster defining a ticket inlet and a ticket outlet, each ticket burster movable to a plurality of different ticket receipt positions respectively associated with and in alignment with a different one of the ticket drawers of the ticket column that the ticket burster is associated with, each ticket burster comprising a sensor;
- a processor;
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- a memory device storing a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to, in a ticket loading mode, for each of the ticket drawer columns, cause the ticket burster associated with that ticket drawer column to, for each of the ticket drawers of the ticket drawer column, perform:
- a ticket bar code determination step comprising:
- moving the ticket burster into the ticket receipt position associated with that ticket drawer,
- causing the ticket drawer to feed a leading part of a leading lottery ticket of a lottery ticket pack in the ticket drawer into the ticket burster,
- causing the ticket burster to cause that lottery ticket to move the ticket in the ticket burster such that a bar code of the leading lottery ticket passes through a scan area associated with the sensor of the ticket burster,
- causing the sensor of the ticket burster to scan the barcode of that lottery ticket,
- receive the barcode image data from the sensor of the ticket burster, and
- causing the lottery ticket to be retracted from the ticket burster back into the ticket drawer;
- and
- a ticket activation step comprising:
- using the barcode image data to activated or verify activation of the lottery ticket pack in the ticket drawer.
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A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- lottery ticket drawers supported by the housing;
- a ticket burster supported by the housing, the ticket burster comprising a sensor;
- a processor;
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- a memory device storing a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to automatically operate with the sensor to determine a barcode image data for each of a plurality of lottery ticket packs in the lottery ticket drawers and use the barcode image data to automatically activate or verify activation of the lottery ticket packs without an operator having to cause each of the plurality of lottery ticket packs to be individually scanned before loading the lottery ticket packs into the lottery ticket drawers.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.