Lottery ticket merchandiser

Claim 2

A merchandiser for selling tickets at a certain price including in combination, manually operable means adapted to be enabled to deliver a ticket upon operation thereof, means adapted to be actuated to register and to store a credit equal to an integral multiple of said purchase price, means responsive to the deposit of money therein for actuating said credit registering means to register and to store a credit aggregating an integral multiple of said purchase price, means including said credit registering and storing means for enabling said ticket delivery means upon the registration of a credit equalling said certain price, and means responsive to operation of said ticket delivery means for actuating said credit registering and storing means to subtract an amount equal to said certain price from the credit stored in said credit registering and storage means to leave a credit therein at least equal to said certain price.

Claim 3

A merchandiser as in claim 1 in which said money responsive means comprises means responsive to the deposit of coins for actuating said credit registering means and means responsive to the deposit of bills for actuating said credit registering means.

Claim 4

A merchandiser as in claim 2 in which said coin responsive means actuates said credit registering means in response to the deposit of every second coin therein.

Claim 5

A merchandiser as in claim 1 in which said credit registering means is adapted to be actuated in steps in registering credit, said money responsive means comprising means responsive to deposit every second coin for stepping said credit registering means through one step and means responsive to deposit of a bill for stepping said credit registering means through two steps.

Claim 6

A merchandiser for selling first tickets at a lower price and second tickets at a higher price which is at least n times said lower price where n is an integer greater than 1 including in combination, first manually operable means adapted to be enabled to deliver said first tickets upon operation thereof, second manually operable means adapted to be enabled to deliver said second tickets upon operation thereof, means adapted to be actuated to register and to store a credit at least equal to said higher price, means responsive to the deposit of money therein for actuating said credit registering means to register and to store a credit at least equal to said higher price, means including said credit registering and storing means for enabling said first ticket delivering means upon the establishment and storage of any credit at least equal to said lower price, means including said credit registering and storage for enabling said second ticket delivering means upon the establishment and storage of a credit equalling at least said higher price, means responsive to operation of said first ticket delivering means for actuating said credit registering and storing means to subtract a credit equal to the price of said first ticket from the credit stored in said credit registering and storage means to leave a credit therein at least equal to said lower price, and means responsive to operation of said second ticket delivering means for actuating said credit registering and storage means to subtract a credit equal to the purchase price of a second ticket from the credit stored in the credit registering and storage means.

Claim 7

A merchandiser for selling first tickets at a lower price and second tickets at a higher price which is at least n times said lower price where n is an integer greater than 1 including in combination, first manually operable means adapted to be enabled to deliver said first tickets upon operation thereof, second manually operable means adapted to be enabled to deliver said second tickets upon operation thereof, means adapted to be actuated to register and to store a credit at least equal to said higher price, means responsive to the deposit of money therein for actuating said credit registering means to register and to store a credit at least equal to said higher price, means including said credit registering and storing means for enabling said first ticket delivering means upon the establishment and storage of any credit at least equal to said lower price, means including said credit registering and storage for enabling said second ticket delivering means upon the establishment and storage of a credit equalling at least said higher price, means responsive to operation of said first ticket delivering means for actuating said credit registering and storing means to subtract a credit equal to the price of said first ticket from the credit stored in said credit registering and storage means to leave a credit therein at least equal to said lower price, and means responsive to operation of said second ticket delivering means for actuating said credit registering and storage means to subtract a credit equal to the purchase price of a second ticket from the credit stored in the credit registering and storage means.

Claim 8

A merchandiser as in claim 5 in which said means responsive to the deposit of money comprises first means responsive to the deposit of coins for actuating said credit registering means and second means responsive to the deposit of dollar bills for actuating said credit registering means.

Claim 9

A merchandiser as in claim 6 including means responsive to operation of said second actuating means for disabling said coin responsive means.

Claim 10

A merchandiser as in claim 5 including first means responsive to operation of said registering means for indicating the establishment of a credit aggregating the purchase price of a first ticket and second means responsive to operation of said registering means for indicating that a credit aggregating the purchase price of a second ticket has been established.

Claim 11

A merchandiser as in claim 5 including means responsive to operation of one of said delivery means for preventing actuation of the other delivery means during said operation.

Claim 12

A merchandiser as in claim 5 including means for disabling said second delivery means when the credit in said credit registering means falls below the purchAse price of a second ticket.

Claim 13

A merchandiser as in claim 5 including first and second empty switches associated with said first ticket delivery means, said first and second switches being sequentially actuated in response to a predetermined operation of said first delivery means, third and fourth empty switches associated with said second ticket delivery means, said third and fourth switches being sequentially actuated in response to a predetermined operation of the second ticket delivery means, means responsive to the concomitant actuation of said first and third switches for inhibiting said means responsive to the deposit of money and respective means responsive to the actuation of said second and fourth switches for disabling the corresponding delivery means.

Claim 14

A merchandiser as in claim 11 including respective empty signal lamps associated with said first and second delivery means and means responsive to concomitant actuation of said first and third switches for energizing said lamps.

Claim 15

A merchandiser as in claim 11 in which said first and second switches and said third and fourth switches are spaced by the length of at least one ticket.

Claim 16

A merchandiser as in claim 1 including first and second empty switches associated with said delivery means, said switches being actuated in sequence in response to a predetermined operation of said delivery means, means responsive to operation of said first switch for disabling said money responsive means, and means responsive to actuation of said second switch for disabling said delivery means.

Claim 17

A merchandiser as in claim 14 in which said switches are spaced by at least the length of a ticket.

Claim 18

A merchandiser for selling tickets including in combination, first means for delivery tickets, second means for delivering tickets, means adapted to be actuated to register a credit equal to an integral multiple of the price of a ticket, means responsive to the deposit of money therein for actuating said credit registering means to register a credit aggregating an integral multiple of said purchase price, means including said credit registering means for enabling said ticket delivery means upon the registerion of a credit equalling the price of a ticket, means responsive to operation of one of said delivering means for actuating said credit registering means to subtract from said credit an amount equal to the price of a ticket delivered by the unit, first and second empty switches associated with said first delivery means, third and fourth empty switches associated with said second delivery means, said first and second switches and said second and fourth switches being actuated sequentially in response to predetermined operations of the respective first and second delivery means, means responsive to concomitant operation of the first and third switches for disabling said means responsive to the deposit of money and means responsive to respective actuation of said second and fourth switches for disabling said delivery means.

Claim 19

A merchandiser for selling tickets including in combination, first means for delivery tickets, second means for delivering tickets, means adapted to be actuated to register a credit equal to an integral multiple of the price of a ticket, means responsive to the deposit of money therein for actuating said credit registering means to register a credit aggregating an integral multiple of said purchase price, means including said credit registering means for enabling said ticket delivery means upon the registerion of a credit equalling the price of a ticket, means responsive to operation of one of said delivering means for actuating said credit registering means to subtract from said credit an amount equal to the price of a ticket delivered by the unit, first and second empty switches associated with said first delivery means, third and fourth empty switches associated with said second delivery means, said first and second switches and said second and fourth switches being actuated sequentially in response to predetermined operations of the respective first and second delivery means, means responsive to concomitant operation of the first and third switches for disabling said means responsive to the deposit of money and means responsive to respective actuation of said second and fourth switches for disabling said delivery means.

Claim 20

A merchandiser as in claim 16 including respective empty signal indicators associated with said delivery means and means responsive to concomitant operation of said first and third switches for energizing said indicators.