Patent ID: 6726077
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: A63F,B26F,B65H,C09D,G03F,G07C,G07F,Y10T

Abstract:
A ticket dispensing device comprising:a plurality of ticket transport mechanisms, each for transporting tickets in an elongated strip, in which the tickets are delineated from one another by lines of weakness, along a path from a supply; a separator mechanism adjacent said transport mechanisms for receiving a strip of said tickets from each of said transport mechanisms; said separator mechanism including an elongated rotary separator shaft spanning the paths taken by each of said strips received by said separator mechanism and a plurality of separator members mounted on the elongated rotary separator shaft, wherein each of the separator members is aligned with one of the paths for separating the tickets of the strip on the associated path; and a drive device drivably coupled to said separator shaft for rotating said separator shaft to separate one ticket from another in at least one of said strips.