Automatic ticket sellinfj machine

Claim 1

AUTOMATIC TICKET SELLING MACHINE COMPRISING SELECTOR MEANS TO SELECT A TICKET; MEANS TO ISSUE A SELECTED TICKET; STORING MEANS INCLUDING A REVERSIBLE ELECTRICAL COUNTER STORING A REPRESENTATION OF THE VALUE OF THE TICKET SELECTED BY SAID SELECTOR MEANS; COIN INSERTION AND COUNTING MENS DETERMINING THE VALUE OF COINS INSERTED THEREIN; AN ELECTRICAL IMPULSE GENERATOR CONTROLLED BY SAID COIN COUNTING MEANS, SAID IMPULSE GENERATOR BEING CONNECTED TO SAID ELECTRICAL COUNTER AND SUPPLYING PULSES THERETO, THE NUMBER OF WHICH IS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE VALVE OF INSERTED COINS, AS COUNTED BY SAID COUNTING MEANS, TO DECREMENT SAID COUNTER BY THE VALVE OF THE INSERTED COINS; ELECTRICAL SENSING MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID COUNTER AND TO SID TICKET ISSUE MEANS TO DETECT FULL COUNTDOWN OF SAID COUNTER AT ZERO AND CAUSE ISSUE OF A TICKET WHEN THE VALUE OF INSERTED COINS EQUALS THE VALUE OF THE SELECTED TICKET; AND MEANS FOR RETURNING CHANGE IF THE VALUE OF INSERTED COINS EXCEEDS THE VALUE OF THE TICKET, SAID CHANGE RETURNING MEANS INCLUDING AN ELECTRICAL PULSE ACTUATED SWITCHING SYSTEM ACTUATED IF IMPULSES FROM SAID IMPULSE GENERATOR ARE RECEIVED AFTER SAID DETECTING MEANS HAVE SENSED COUNTDOWN OF SAID COUNTER TO ZERO, SAID SWITCHING SYSTEM CAUSING CONTINUED COUNTING OF SAID COUNTER TO SET THE CORRECT AMOUNT OF CHANGE INTO THE COUNTER; AND A CHANGE COIN RETURNING DEVICE, SAID COIN CHANGE RETURNING DEVICE BEING CONTROLLED BY FURTHER PULSES FROM SAID IMPULSE GENERATOR; SAID FURTHER PULSES FROM SAID IMPULSE GENERATOR SIMULTANEOUSLY CAUSING COUNTING OF SAID COUNTER IN REVERSE DIRECTION, SAID DETECTING MEANS INTERRUPTING SAID IMPULSE GENERATOR AND SAID COIN CHANGE RETURNING DEVICE WHEN SAID COUNTER AGAIN REACHES ZERO.