Device for customizing and dispensing contactless smart tickets
AssigneeAsk S.A.
InventorGuy Mausy
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Abstract
A device for the customization and automatic dispensing of single smart contactless tickets provided with a device to check the reliability of tickets and a device to customize the tickets, and including a storage location for tickets in the form of a vertical stack. The dispensing device includes a suction cup (20) provided with apparatus to control its vacuum and supported by a movable arm (31) moving along a vertical path, the suction cup enabling the unstacking and removal of a ticket (13) from the storage location and carrying it until it rests on a drive system, and an external antenna (24) adapted to check the reliability of the ticket initially at the time of unstacking.
Claims11
A device for customization and automatic dispensing of single smart contactless tickets, said device comprising
- a removable cassette for storing the tickets in the form of a stack, said removable cassette including opposed bosses for supporting the stack of tickets;
- a suction cup provided with means to control a vacuum and supported by a movable arm adapted to move along a vertical path, said suction cup adapted to remove a ticket from a bottom of the stack of tickets in said removable cassette by deforming said ticket such that said ticket can pass between said opposed bosses and come out of said cassette, said suction cup further adapted to carry said ticket from said removable cassette to a drive system;
- means to check the reliability of the tickets, including an external antenna adapted to check the reliability of said ticket initially at the time of unstacking;
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- means to customize the tickets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.