Ticket issuing apparatus

A ticket issuing apparatus comprising:

• ticket stock means having a ticket containing portion for containing a plurality of tickets each having magnetic-record holding means, and ticket supplying means for leading out the tickets one by one from the ticket containing portion;
• conveying means for conveying the ticket led out from the ticket stock means;
• magnetic recording means having a magnetic head for writing or recording given data on the magnetic-record holding means of the ticket conveyed by the conveying means;
• printing means for printing on the ticket conveyed by the conveying means in accordance with the given data;
• manual-insertion passage means having at its one end an insertion opening into which a ticket is manually inserted from the outside, the other end of which being communicated with the conveying means;
• side passage means having at its one end a side opening communicating with the conveying means between the ticket stock means and the magnetic recording means;
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• control means for controlling the conveying means so as to move, at first, the ticket, inserted into the insertion opening of the manual-insertion passage means from the outside, through the conveying means into the side passage means at the side opening, and, then, to move the ticket in the side passage means from the side passage means into the conveying means so that the given data is written or recorded on the magnetic-record holding means in the magnetic recording means, and further printed thereon in the printing means.