Forecasting apparatus

Claim 1

Apparatus for gambling on a selected one of a plurality of different sporting events comprising, in combination; a housing having an upper part and a lower part; a display window in the upper part of the housing; a set of display coupons, one appropriate to each sporting event, provided behind said display window; means operable by the user of the apparatus for displaying a selected display coupon in said display window; a record card magazine in the interior of the lower part of the housing; a plurality of identical record cards in said magazine, each record card having the same indicia premarked thereon and each record card further having an adhesive backed transparent film detachably secured to one face thereof; means provided in said lower part of the housing to feed said record cards one by one to a punching station; punch means disposed at said punching station operable to punch holes through a record card and its transparent film; wherein each of said display coupons has premarked thereon indicia identical to that on each record card, and wherein exteriorly of the housing, a number of sets of copy coupons are provided, there being one set for each sporting event, each of said copy coupons having premarked thereon indicia identical to that on said record cards, whereby the transparent film can be peeled off a respective record card and affixed to a copy coupon to provide a personal record.