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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2023
Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation, Providence, RI (US);
Paul A Bucci, Glocester, RI (US);
Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation, Providence, RI (US);
Abstract
An instant lottery ticket vending machine configured to determine if its ticket bursters are improperly separating the lottery tickets received from the ticket drawers of the ticket drawer columns, and to make one or more adjustments and/or alert an operator if its ticket bursters are improperly separating the lottery tickets. In various embodiments, each of the tickets bursters includes a suitable ticket edge sensor configured to sense an edge (such as a leading edge) of each lottery ticket received in such ticket burster. In various embodiments, the lottery ticket vending machine includes one or more controllers configured to receive such signals from the ticket edge sensor and make such determinations regarding any adjustments and/or alerts, and to cause any such adjustments and/or alerts.