Patent ID: 6932258

Claim:
A multi-game ticket self-service terminal comprising: a housing for storing a plurality of different types of game tickets, said types including lottery tickets stored in strips in which individual tickets are delineated from one another by lines of weakness; a currency acceptor device mounted in said housing to accept currency and produce a corresponding number of credits; credit display means in communication with the currency acceptor device and mounted in the housing for displaying the number of credits; dispensing means for selectively dispensing said tickets according to the number of credits; detector means for detecting a winning amount displayed on a ticket previously dispensed from the dispensing means; and credit means for increasing the number of credits corresponding to the winning amount; wherein the dispensing means further comprises a separator mechanism for separating tickets from one another before being guided out of said housing, said separator mechanism including at least one rotary dull helical separator member, at least one detector mounted in said housing for detecting the position of said tickets and a drive device mounted in said housing and coupled to the separator member to selectively rotate said separator member to separate said tickets.