Ticket dispenser
AssigneeTurn-O-Matic AB
InventorKjell Svensson
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Abstract
A ticket assembly including a casing and at least one cover part which is pivotally connected to the casing is disclosed. The casing has provided therein a feed path, which functions to guide a strip of mutually connected tickets during its passage through the casing and includes a ticket outfeed aperture and mutually opposing guide surfaces in the proximity of the outfeed aperture. The bottom guide surface of the ticket strip feed path includes a bead which extends across a part of the feed path. The bead terminates short of the feed path so as to leave surfaces which constitute an extension of the feed path. The bead thus coacts with upper guide surface in aiding in the separation of the connected tickets.
Claims13
A ticket dispensing assembly comprising a ticket feeder for feeding a continuous, flexible ticket strip in roll form, said ticket feeder including a casing for accommodating the ticket roll, at least one cover part pivotally connected to said casing, a feed path for guiding said continuous ticket strip;
- an outfeed aperture formed in said casing;
- vertically spaced top and bottom guide surfaces, between which the continuous strip is guided, defining said feed path;
- and a separating means for separating strip parts which join two mutually adjacent tickets together wherein the continuous ticket strip has punched therein at regular intervals there along parting lines which form a plurality of tongue-shaped flaps and flap-openings, and the strip parts which join together two mutually adjacent tickets are located at the extremities of a punched parting line and extend approximately, transversely to the longitudinal axis of the ticket strip;
- said separating means including a first lip positioned externally of said outfeed aperture and merging with said bottom guide surface, an upper surface of said first lip being located on a plane lower than a plane formed by said bottom guide surface with respect to said top guide surface;
- an elongated bead extending laterally across the feed path, said bead having a length less than a width of the continuous ticket strip;
- and a second lip formed on said top guide surface, a top thereof being located in the proximity of a side of the bead that faces towards the outfeed aperture;
- said top guide surface further including a depression adjacent a base of said second lip sherein said depression accommodates at least a portion of said bead.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.