Lottery ticket processor
AssigneesGregory R. Faciane, Maxine M. Faciane, Louis H. Faciane, Ralph G. Faciane
InventorsGregory R. Faciane, Maxine M. Faciane
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Abstract
A lottery ticket processor accepts a sequence of lottery tickets between two plates, each ticket presenting its number zone at a plate window; and a scraper, which may be carried by the processor body, has an edge to be received in the window to quickly scrape away all the film overlying the number on a ticket.
Claims16
In a device for processing a string of lottery tickets interconnected along laterally extending folds, each ticket being rectangular, the combination comprising:
- (a) a body having upper and lower flat, generally parallel, laterally extending plates which extend in proximity to define a space therebetween, the plate and said spaced sized to slidably pass the string of tickets, in sequence, longitudinally between the plates and so that at least one fold lines up with a plate edge as a ticket is received into said space,
- (b) a window in the upper plate to register with a zone of a ticket in said space, and via which alphanumberic characters on the ticket are presented, upon removal of an overlying film at said zone,
- (c) and a scraper carried by said body for scraping off said film on said zone of the ticket at said space, when a portion of the scraper is inserted through said window.
For use in a device for processing a string of lottery tickets interconnected along laterally extending folds, each ticket being rectangular, the device including
- (a) a body having upper and lower flat, generally parallel, laterally extending plates which extend in proximity to define a space therebetween, the plate and said space sized to slidably pass the string of tickets, in sequence, longitudinally between the plates and so that at least one fold lines up with a plate edge as a ticket is received into said space, and
- (b) a window in the upper plate to register with a zone of a ticket in said space, and via which alphanumeric characters on the ticket are presented, upon removal of an overlying film at said zone, the improvement comprising
- (c) a scraper carried by said body for scraping of said film on said zone of the ticket at said space, when a portion of the scraper is inserted through said window
- (d) the scraper being flat and having a blade defining a scraping edge, and a head to be manually grasped, the blade edge having a width substantially the same as the width of said window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.