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US 5,355,543 AGranted
Lottery card scraper apparatus
OwnerMark R. Cameron, Kelly D. Cameroninventors
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Abstract
A housing is arranged to include side walls, with each of the side walls including communicating and coextensive slots in communication with an internal cavity of the housing, such that a helical blade member is arranged to remove laminate from lottery cards and the like. The scraper blade is arranged in coaxial spaced alignment with a resilient drive roller.
Claims6
A lottery card scraper apparatus, comprising,
- a housing, the housing including a top wall spaced from a bottom wall, a first side wall spaced from a second side wall, a first end wall spaced from a second end wall,
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- the housing including a housing cavity,
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- an entrance slot directed through the first side wall, the second side wall including an exit slot, with the entrance slot and the exit slot arranged in a coextensive parallel relationship relative to one another, the bottom wall includes a floor within the housing cavity, with the floor in contiguous communication with the entrance slot and the exit slot,
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- an axle rotatably mounted to the first end wall and the second end wall parallel to the floor, the axle including a resilient drive roller, a rigid helical blade member, with the drive roller and the blade member coaxially aligned in a spaced relationship relative to one another, with a central pulley mounted coaxially to the axle between the resilient cylinder and the helical blade, and drive means mounted within the cavity for effecting rotation of the axle, with the drive means including a drive means pulley, and the drive means pulley and the central pulley including a drive belt extending therebetween.
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