Patent ID: 9718577
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: A63F,B65B,B65D,G07C

Claim:
1. A method for manipulating packs of interconnected lottery tickets, wherein each individual lottery ticket pack is wrapped with a wrapping material and a label is adhered to the wrapping material, wherein the label includes a first portion permanently adhered to the wrapping material and a second portion having a releasable adhesive applied to a surface thereof, the method comprising: grasping and pulling the label away from the ticket pack in a manner that causes the permanently adhered first portion of the label to tear the wrapping material from the ticket pack; manually removing all of the wrapping material from the ticket pack; and using the second portion of the label to connect the last ticket in the ticket pack to a first ticket in a separate unwrapped ticket pack by pressing the side of the second portion containing the releasable adhesive across aligned ends of the adjacent tickets.