Patent ID: 6095624
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: G07B

Abstract:
A ticket dispenser comprising:a unitary box-like structure having a pair of side walls, top and bottom walls, a front wall and an open back, said structure having a plurality of vertical and horizontal interior walls secured to the side, top, bottom and front walls of the structure, said side, top, bottom, front and interior walls defining a plurality of box-shaped compartments arranged in vertical and horizontal rows, each box-shaped compartment having respective side, top, bottom and front walls and wherein adjacent vertical compartments have a shared wall including at least one of their top or bottom walls with an adjacent vertical box-shaped compartment, each compartment further being adapted to receive series connected tickets therein;a plurality of doors, one for each of the plurality of compartments, each of said doors being releasably and hingedly connected to the bottom wall of their corresponding compartment; anda plurality of locking members, one for each of the plurality of doors, each locking member including a rotatable latch member rotatably movable between an unlocked position in which the door can be released from the structure and a locked position in which the latch member extends through an aperture formed in the top wall of the compartment thereby locking the door to the shared wall of the adjacent vertical compartment.