Edward W Hoppe

US Patent:

47045183, Nov 3, 1987

Filed:

Nov 26, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/935293

Inventors:

Frederick A. Brunn - San Diego CA
Edward A. Hoppe - Oceanside CA
Paul M. Volpini - San Diego CA

Assignee:

International Totalizator Systems, Inc. - San Diego CA

International Classification:

G06K 1308

US Classification:

235480

Abstract:

An apparatus for printing and issuing tickets has a circular ticket guide in which a drive cylinder is disposed to selectively rotate in a forward or reverse direction. A ticket magazine feeds a blank ticket into the ticket guide in the forward direction and the cylinder rotates, driving the ticket in the forward or reverse direction in order to execute a series of process steps involved in issuing the written ticket. Arrayed in an arcuate sequence adjacent the ticket guide in the forward direction are a printing and reading apparatus, a ramped impound aperture, and a ramped issue aperture. A ticket is fed from the hopper in the forward direction and the drive cylinder is rotated to carry the ticket past the printing and reading apparatus where information is written and verified on the ticket. The drive cylinder continues to rotate in the forward direction, carrying the ticket past the impound, and then the issue aperture. The drive cylinder then reverses, first offering the ticket through the issue aperture and then, if the ticket is not manually removed from the aperture, the drive cylinder is rotated to feed the ticket into an impound enclosure through the impound aperture.