Patent ID: 8177224

Claim:
Method for stacking tickets in a printer, comprising: providing a stacking nip adapted to accept tickets from a ticket cutter, the stacking nip being offset from the ticket cutter in a direction of travel of the tickets; feeding a first ticket into the stacking nip; providing a shelf between the ticket cutter and the stacking nip, the shelf being offset from the ticket cutter; advancing the first ticket by the stacking nip for a fixed distance until a trailing edge of the first ticket snaps into a space provided by the shelf and is positioned before the stacking nip; feeding a second ticket towards the stacking nip; holding the first ticket in the stacking nip with the trailing edge positioned before the stacking nip until a leading edge of the second ticket overlaps the trailing edge of the first ticket; simultaneously advancing the trailing edge of the first ticket and the leading edge of the second ticket through the stacking nip; ejecting the first ticket from the stacking nip into a ticket bin once the trailing edge is advanced through the stacking nip.