A system for and method of dispensing lottery tickets
CA 2185265 C · Owner: Stoken, Raymond G. · Inventors: Stoken, Raymond G.; Dobransky, Bernard J. Jr.
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A lottery ticket dispensing system is for improved pull-tab lottery tickets of atype that include a plurality of normally closed windows that can be opened to reveal play symbols thereunder with some of the play symbols being winning symbols. Each of the improved lottery tickets is also provided a normally closedbar code window with bar code markings hidden thereunder which includes ticket information for indicating each of the play symbols as aligned with its respective window. A lottery ticket dispensing machine includes a ticket storage area and means for initiating the dispersing of the ticket from the storage area toward the front panel of the machine. When the ticket is being …
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- Filed September 11, 1996 and granted June 29, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 11, 2016.
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