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US 4,907,823 AGranted
Lottery kit
OwnerDenise M. Windishinventor
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Abstract
A lottery kit comprising a scraping tool for removing particle covering materials from a lottery ticket, a collection mat for collecting the particles, and pocket size foldable panels that contain slash type pockets for frictionally holding a lottery ticket, a scraping tool, and a collection mat.
Claims9
A pocket lottery kit for holding a lottery ticket with removable particle covering material thereon and removable particles scraped from a lottery ticket comprising:
- a first panel of heat sealable material having peripheral edges and a second panel of heat sealable material, said first panel having a first inside sheet of heat sealable material having peripheral edges with the peripheral edges of said first inside sheet heat sealed to said first panel along the peripheral edges of said first panel to provide a pocket for receiving a lottery ticket, said second panel having peripheral edges and a second inside sheet of heat sealable material having peripheral edges with said second inside sheet heat sealed to said peripheral edges of said second panel to provide a pocket for a collection mat;
- a flexible hinge connecting said first panel to said second panel, said flexible hinge including a pocket for frictionally holding a scraping tool;
- a collection mat of a foldable flexible polymer plastic material for placing a lottery ticket on when the user scrapes removable particles off the lottery ticket, said foldable polymer plastic made from a material to produce a clinging action for removable particles removed from the lottery ticket to eliminate the soiling mess of particles adhering to a person or a persons clothing;
- and a scrapping tool for removing particle covering material from a lottery ticket by scraping the lottery tool over the removable particles, said scraping tool having a scraping blade with a straight edge to permit a user to scrape removable particles from a lottery ticket onto said foldable polymer plastic material so that when the user has scraped the removable particles onto said collection mat the user can fold and place said collection mat with the removed particles clinging to said collection mat in the pocket lottery kit thereby preventing the removable particles from falling into the user's pocket as the pocket lottery kit is carried about.
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A pocket size lottery kit for holding a lottery ticket having removable particles and a tool for use with the lottery ticket comprising:
- a pair of panels that are foldable connected to each other to provide a lottery kit that can be laid flat in an opened condition or folded in a closed condition;
- a pocket for holding a collection mat;
- a transparent sheet located on one of said panels to coact with one of said panels to provide a pocket with a transparent face to permit the user to observe the lottery number on a lottery ticket located in said pocket;
- a foldable collection mat for placing on a surface so that a lottery ticket with removable particles can be placed thereon, said collection mat having an area for collecting removable particles with the area of the collection mat larger than the lottery ticket
- a tool for use with a lottery ticket said tool for scraping removable particles from a lottery ticket onto said collection mat while the user scrapes the removable particles onto said collection mat so that the removable particles from said lottery ticket can be folded into said collection mat to permit the user to store said collection mat with said removable particles in said lottery kit;
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- a compartment for holding said tool in said lottery kit when the lottery kit is in an open or closed condition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.