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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2020
Scientific Games International, Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, Cumming, GA (US);
William F. Behm, Roswell, GA (US);
James Jonathan Holbrook, Cumming, GA (US);
Mark Andrew Thompson, Buford, GA (US);
Ian Robert Scott, Duluth, GA (US);
Scientific Games, LLC, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Abstract
A lottery ticket dispensing unit includes at least one ticket compartment and a separation module that has a drive roller and an opposed idler roller, with a motor geared to the drive roller. An automatic separator device is provided, wherein the drive roller conveys a leading lottery ticket to a separation position such that a line between the leading ticket and an adjacent ticket is presented to the separator device. The separator device includes a shuttle that travels in a linear path along the line, the shuttle having a head that engages and separates the leading ticket from the adjacent ticket along the line. A bi-directional drive mechanism moves the shuttle back and forth along the linear path.