Lottery ticket dispenser for break-resistant web material
AssigneeGranite State Machine Co., Inc.
InventorGeorge F. Wescoat
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Abstract
A ticket dispenser automatically advances a continuous web of lottery tickets, one ticket length, halts the advance, and severs the end most ticket to drop into a delivery chute upon actuation. The dispenser is capable of handling ticket webs which are difficult to tear or have poor perforations, by pre-breaking the web along its transverse lines of perforation, in opposite angular directions by means of a set of three cylindrical rolls, and by moving a breaker bar upwardly into a slot between an inclined bed plate and a horizontal bed plate to slice each successive, prebroken perforated line. The printed indicia can thus be on the upper surface of the web and the tickets delivered face-up.
Claims6
A lottery ticket dispenser of the type having a continuous web of individual lottery tickets, separated by perforated lines, guided along a path from a supply compartment to a breaker bar station proximate a delivery chute, said dispenser having friction feed mechanism advancing said web along said path, ticket bowing means on said path, just in advance of said breaker bar station, for rigidifying each successive endmost ticket to span said breaker bar station, and stop means including a limit switch in the path of the leading edge of each said successive endmost ticket for stopping said feed mechanism when closed by contact with said leading edge, characterized by
- breaker bar means including a pivoted breaker bar normally poised out of said path at said breaker bar station;
- power means for moving said bar in an upward path to separate each endmost ticket engaging said stop means along its perforated line of connection to said web and bed plate means extending over the path of said unsupported web at said station including a pair of bed plates separated by a slot in the path of said upward moving breaker bar, the perforated line of connection of each successive endmost ticket being located in said slot when the leading edge of said ticket is in engagement with said stop to cooperate with said bar in separating said endmost ticket despite flimsiness of said web and;
- pre-breaking means comprising a set of three cylindrical rolls mounted along said path in advance of said breaker bar station for pre-folding each said ticket first in one direction and then in the opposite direction along its perforated line of connection to said web;
- said friction feed mechanism and said ticket bowing means comprises a pair of smooth faced rolls forming a pressure nip at each opposite end thereof, the lower roll having a pair of annular, spaced apart centrally located grooves each of arcuate cross section and the upper roll having a pair of annular, spaced apart centrally located friction rings of yieldable rubber like material, each ring being arranged to distort the adjacent portion of a ticket down into one of said grooves to bow the same in a smooth curved cross section.
Apparatus for dispensing one lottery ticket at a time from a web of such tickets connected to each other by transverse, perforated lines, said apparatus comprising:
- friction feed means, including a pair of powered feed rolls, for advancing said web along a path from a web supply compartment, through a breaker bar station, across a gap, to a stop in the path of the leading edge;
- said feed rolls having smooth circumferential surfaces proximate each opposite end thereof, for advancing said web and having smoothly curved ticket bowing surfaces of arcuate cross section centrally of said rolls for transversely bowing said web;
- bed plate means extending across said gap, above the path of said web, said bed plate means having a slot therein at said breaker bar station;
- a pivoted breaker bar normally poised below the path of said web, but movable upwardly at said station to separate each successive endmost ticket from said web while passing through said bedplate slot,
- and electric circuit means including a limit switch in the path of the leading edge of each successive endmost ticket at said stop, to stop said feed rolls and an electric motor for actuating said breaker bar when said feed rolls and web are stopped.
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