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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2022
Igt Global Solutions Corporation, Providence, RI (US);
Medina Marie Topalian, East Greenwich, RI (US);
Paul A. Bucci, Glocester, RI (US);
Henry Constant, West Warwick, RI (US);
IGT Global Solutions Corporation, Providence, RI (US);
Abstract
An instant lottery ticket vending machine including a machine housing, a ticket pack holder positioned in the machine housing and including a plurality of ticket pack drawers that are each configured to hold a pack of instant lottery tickets, a ticket receptacle supported by the machine housing, and a ticket burster positioned in the machine housing, wherein the ticket burster movable into a plurality of different ticket receipt positions respectively associated with and in alignment with a different one of the ticket pack drawers, wherein in each ticket receipt position, the ticket burster is configured to receive from the ticket pack drawer associated with that ticket receipt position an instant lottery ticket attached to a next instant lottery ticket, and wherein the ticket burster is configured to separate the instant lottery ticket from the next instant lottery ticket and dispense the instant lottery ticket into the ticket receptacle.