US4191376A
Expired / Lapsed
US
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Highly secure playing cards for instant lottery and games
Assignee: WEBCRAFT GAMES Inc A CORP OF NJ
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Filing: 1977-01-28
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Granted: 1980-03-04
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Expires: 1997-01-28
Abstract
Abstract Tickets for an instant lottery are imprinted with lottery numbers and serial numbers that are uniquely related and the lottery numbers are covered from view until after purchase, to provide control and distribution of winners and a high degree of security from fraud. By means of computerized fabrication a low cost and high security ticket is achieved. Playing cards for other games are also inexpensively fabricated.
Inventors
- 👤 Max Goldman
- 👤 Carl Alexoff
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-24 21:14
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06Q; G06Q50/00; G06Q50/34; A; A63; A63F; A63F3/00; A63F3/06; A63F3/0645; A63F3/065; G07; G07C; G07C15/00; G07C15/005; G07F; G07F17/00; G07F17/32; G07F17/3286; G07F17/3288
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim
322 words
An instant lottery ticket construction for a game comprising: a plurality of lots of tickets, each of said tickets being imprinted with a serial number, and imprinted with a lottery number seemingly randomly associated with the serial number, said lottery number being not discernible after the ticket is fabricated and when given to the player being transformable by the player to be intelligible for comparison with known winning lottery numbers set forth in the game in association with the tickets when dispensed to the player, the tickets for each of said lots being physically connected and disconnected when dispensed to the player; said serial numbers being imprinted by means of a computer-controlled printer on successive ones of said lottery tickets with said serial numbers being sequential within each of said lots and providing an inventory control of the tickets in each of said lots; said lottery numbers being imprinted by means of said printer on said lottery tickets with each of said lottery numbers being correlated seemingly randomly to the serial number of the same ticket by a certain computer algorithm of logical operations so that improperly altered or counterfeit lottery numbers can be detected by testing for correlation with the associated serial number; said physically connected tickets in said lots having a certain quantity of winning ones of said lottery numbers in a particular game, the winning lottery numbers being seemingly randomly distributed through said physically connected tickets of said lots without physical manipulation of said tickets and correlated with said serial numbers by a certain computer algorithm associated with said lottery number algorithm; whereby a highly reliable lottery is economically established in the ticket fabrication by the ability to validate winning lottery tickets, by the distribution and dispensing of tickets being accounted for by serial numbers, and by the assurance to players and ticket dispensers of a certain number of winning lottery tickets in seemingly random relation to non-winning tickets.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
322 words
An instant lottery ticket construction for a game comprising: a plurality of lots of tickets, each of said tickets being imprinted with a serial number, and imprinted with a lottery number seemingly randomly associated with the serial number, said lottery number being not discernible after the ticket is fabricated and when given to the player being transformable by the player to be intelligible for comparison with known winning lottery numbers set forth in the game in association with the tickets when dispensed to the player, the tickets for each of said lots being physically connected and disconnected when dispensed to the player; said serial numbers being imprinted by means of a computer-controlled printer on successive ones of said lottery tickets with said serial numbers being sequential within each of said lots and providing an inventory control of the tickets in each of said lots; said lottery numbers being imprinted by means of said printer on said lottery tickets with each of said lottery numbers being correlated seemingly randomly to the serial number of the same ticket by a certain computer algorithm of logical operations so that improperly altered or counterfeit lottery numbers can be detected by testing for correlation with the associated serial number; said physically connected tickets in said lots having a certain quantity of winning ones of said lottery numbers in a particular game, the winning lottery numbers being seemingly randomly distributed through said physically connected tickets of said lots without physical manipulation of said tickets and correlated with said serial numbers by a certain computer algorithm associated with said lottery number algorithm; whereby a highly reliable lottery is economically established in the ticket fabrication by the ability to validate winning lottery tickets, by the distribution and dispensing of tickets being accounted for by serial numbers, and by the assurance to players and ticket dispensers of a certain number of winning lottery tickets in seemingly random relation to non-winning tickets.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
25 words
An instant lottery ticket construction as set forth in claim 1 wherein the lottery numbers of said lottery tickets are covered with a removable covering.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
21 words
An instant lottery ticket construction as set forth in claim 1 wherein said lottery tickets are sales slips for commercial promotions.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
18 words
An instant lottery ticket construction as set forth in claim 1 wherein said lottery tickets are commercial coupons.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
32 words
An instant lottery ticket construction as set forth in claim 1 wherein said tickets in each of said lots are folded in a continuous strip and detached from said strip when dispensed.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
74 words
An instant lottery ticket construction as recited in claim 5 and further comprising an additional validation number imprinted on each of said tickets and correlated seemingly randomly to the serial number of the same ticket by a certain computer algorithm so that improperly altered or counterfeit lottery tickets can be detected by testing for correlation of the serial and validation numbers thereof and partially mutilated tickets can be reconstructed by the correlating computer algorithms.
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| 3.5 Years (Year 4) | 1983-03-04 | 1983-09-03 | 1984-03-04 | $2000.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
| 7.5 Years (Year 8) | 1987-03-04 | 1987-09-03 | 1988-03-04 | $3760.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
| 11.5 Years (Year 12) | 1991-03-04 | 1991-09-03 | 1992-03-04 | $7700.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |