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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2002
Lyle Harold Scrymgeour, Dugald, CA;
Douglas Pollard, Winnipeg, CA;
Jack F. Hargrave, Pottawattamie County, IA (US);
Terry L. Poffenbarger, Potawattamie County, IA (US);
Bennie D. Childers, Pottawattamie County, IA (US);
Martin E. Johnson, Pottawattamie County, IA (US);
Michael T. Templeman, Pottawattamie County, IA (US);
Pollard Banknote Limited, Winnipeg, CA;
Abstract
The input of information into the control unit of a lottery ticket dispensing machine, for filling of dispensing containers of the machine with different game tickets, defining a game number for a game provided on the tickets, a price of the ticket, a total number of the tickets making up the quantity of tickets and a length of the tickets from a leading edge of each ticket to a trailing edge thereof is simplified so as to avoid requiring the service person to enter the information on a key pad as numerical values. This is effected by providing the information in machine readable form on the tickets themselves or on a game set up card associated with the tickets so that the information can be scanned into the control unit by a reader. Alternatively, the information can be provided in a simplified coded form for simple input by the service person into a key pad of the control unit. In a further alternative the control unit is arranged to communicate with a central data source which provides the information from the game number manually input by the service person.