Patent ID: 6871755
Filing Date: 2005-03-29
Classification: B65H,G07F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for the storage, display and dispensing of tickets and for the accounting of tickets dispensed from the apparatus, said apparatus comprising: (a) a bin housing for storing a pack of tickets sequentially connected together by perforated joinder lines that define the edges of each ticket, said bin housing including a dispensing end and an opposite end; (b) said tickets each having indicia located thereon and formed of ticket counting indicia and miscellaneous ticket indicia; (c) a ticket dispensing assembly located at the dispensing end of said bin housing and having a ticket dispensing slot through which said tickets are dispensed from said bin housing; (d) a first ticket counting means associated with said dispensing assembly for counting the number of tickets dispensed from said apparatus and providing an electronic signal representative of said number; (e) a second ticket counting means associated with said dispensing assembly for detecting said ticket counting indicia on said tickets and for calibrating the accuracy of said first counting means; and (f) computer processing means for receiving said electronic signals from said first and second counting means and for providing ticket count information in response thereto.