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US 2025/0375797 A1Published application
Lottery ticket vending machine with cleaning pad drawer
AssigneeBrightstar Global Solutions Corporation
InventorsPaul A. Bucci, Thomas Quaranta, Stewart Thoeni
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Abstract
A lottery ticket vending machine including a housing, a ticket drawer holder in the housing, the ticket drawer holder including a plurality of ticket drawers and a cleaning pad drawer, each of the plurality of ticket drawers configured to hold a plurality of lottery tickets, the cleaning pad drawer configured to hold a cleaning pad, and a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster configured to move to a cleaning pad receipt position associated with and in alignment with the cleaning pad drawer, and receive a cleaning pad from the cleaning pad drawer to clean a part of the ticket burster.
Claims20
A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a ticket drawer holder in the housing, the ticket drawer holder comprising a plurality of ticket drawers and a cleaning pad drawer, each of the plurality of ticket drawers configured to hold a plurality of lottery tickets, the cleaning pad drawer configured to hold a cleaning pad;
- and
- a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster configured to:
- move to a cleaning pad receipt position associated with and in alignment with the cleaning pad drawer, and
- receive the cleaning pad from the cleaning pad drawer to clean a part of the ticket burster.
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A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a ticket drawer holder in the housing, the ticket drawer holder comprising a plurality of ticket drawers and a cleaning pad drawer, each of the plurality of ticket drawers configured to hold a plurality of lottery tickets, the cleaning pad drawer configured to hold a cleaning pad;
- and
- a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster:
- defining a ticket inlet, a scan region, and a ticket outlet,
- comprising a barcode reader configured to read barcode data based on barcodes of lottery tickets that move into the ticket burster via the ticket inlet and through the scan region,
- movable to a plurality of different ticket receipt positions, each of the plurality of different ticket receipt positions associated with and in alignment with a different one of the plurality of ticket drawers, and
- configured to:
- receive in each of the plurality of different ticket receipt positions and via the ticket inlet a lottery ticket attached to a next lottery ticket from the ticket drawer associated with that ticket receipt position,
- separate the lottery ticket from the next lottery ticket,
- move the lottery ticket through the scan region, and dispense the lottery ticket via the ticket outlet,
- move to a cleaning pad receipt position associated with and in alignment with the cleaning pad drawer,
- receive in the cleaning pad receipt position and via the ticket inlet the cleaning pad from the cleaning pad drawer, and
- perform a cleaning operation to clean the scan region by moving the cleaning pad through the scan region.
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A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a ticket drawer holder in the housing, the ticket drawer holder comprising a plurality of ticket drawers and a cleaning pad drawer, each of the plurality of ticket drawers configured to hold a plurality of lottery tickets, the cleaning pad drawer configured to hold a plurality of cleaning pads;
- and
- a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster:
- defining a ticket inlet, a scan region, and a ticket outlet,
- comprising a barcode reader configured to read barcode data based on barcodes of lottery tickets that move into the ticket burster via the ticket inlet and through the scan region,
- movable to a plurality of different ticket receipt positions, each of the plurality of different ticket receipt positions associated with and in alignment with a different one of the plurality of ticket drawers, and
- configured to:
- receive in each of the plurality of different ticket receipt positions and via the ticket inlet a lottery ticket attached to a next lottery ticket from the ticket drawer associated with that ticket receipt position,
- separate the lottery ticket from the next lottery ticket,
- move the lottery ticket through the scan region, and dispense the lottery ticket via the ticket outlet,
- move to a cleaning pad receipt position associated with and in alignment with the cleaning pad drawer,
- receive in the cleaning pad receipt position and via the ticket inlet a cleaning pad from the cleaning pad drawer,
- cause the cleaning pad to be separated from a next cleaning pad of the plurality of cleaning pads,
- perform a cleaning operation to clean the scan region by moving the cleaning pad through the scan region, and
- move the cleaning pad out of the ticket burster via the ticket outlet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.