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Spielo Manufacturing Incorporated

Calvin Duke Martini

Eugene Anthony Helmetsie

Paul Chiasson

A ticket dispensing mechanism ( ) includes a drive ( ) receiving sheet material ( ) from a supply ( ). The drive advances the sheet material. A printer ( ) prints ticket information on the sheet material as it is advanced by the drive thereby to form a printed ticket. A retaining mechanism ( ) receives the printed ticket advanced by the drive and holds the printed ticket in a manner such that the leading end of the next ticket printed contacts and ejects the held ticket prior to itself being held by the retaining mechanism.

Ticket dispensing mechanism

A ticket dispenser has a dispenser body with an internal chamber, and a lid for closing the chamber. The lid has an external ticket-receiving surface. A roll of paper or the like is contained in the chamber, and is fed between a rotating drum and an upright support surface. The lid defines a substantially upright wall with an upper edge, the wall being offset with respect to the support surface when the lid is closed. A passive retainer mechanism on the body retains against the upright wall any part of the paper web rising from between the drum and the support surface. A relatively stiff deflector bends the web material around the edge by virtue of a deflector surface located so as to be intersected by the projection of the operative part of the upright wall portion. A cutter is provided to cut the paper web into discrete tickets. Each severed ticket is retained in place by the relatively flexible retainer mechanism, so that it will be contacted by the cut marginal edge of the remaining web, due to the urging of the strip, and will achieve an overlapping frictional grip therewith so that continued upward movement of the web will eject the cut ticket from the dispenser.

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