US4398708A
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Method of fabricating and securing playing cards for instant lotteries and games
Assignee: WEBCRAFT GAMES Inc A CORP OF NJ
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Filing: 1979-12-17
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Granted: 1983-08-16
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Expires: 1999-12-17
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
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-25 11:57
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06Q; G06Q50/00; G06Q50/34; A; A63; A63F; A63F3/00; A63F3/06; A63F3/0645; A63F3/065; A63F3/0665; G07; G07C; G07C15/00; G07C15/005; G07F; G07F17/00; G07F17/32; G07F17/3286; G07F17/3288; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S283/00; Y10S283/903
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 17
Claim 1
Independent Claim
353 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of physically connected instant lottery tickets for lotteries and other games, each having a serial number and a lottery number seemingly randomly associated with the serial number, said lottery number being indiscernible after the playing card is fabricated and when given to the player but transformable by the player to be intelligible for comparison with known winning lottery numbers, said method comprising; feeding a continuous strip of ticket material through a computer-controlled printer; imprinting under computer control different lottery numbers in a seemingly randomized way on successive portions of said ticket strip corresponding to individual tickets and rendering said lottery numbers indiscernible; and imprinting serial numbers on said ticket card portions under computer control seemingly randomly associated with the lottery numbers; said serial numbers being imprinted on successive physically connected ones of said lottery tickets with the serial numbers being sequential within each of a plurality of lots of tickets and providing an inventory control of the tickets in each of said lots; said lottery numbers being imprinted on said lottery tickets with each of the lottery numbers being correlated seemingly randomly to the serial number of the same ticket by a certain computer algorithm; said imprinting of lottery numbers including imprinting on said physically connected tickets in said lots a certain quantity of winning ones of said lottery numbers in a particular game, the winning lottery numbers being seemingly randomly distributed among said physically connected tickets of said lots without physical manipulation of said tickets and correlated with said serial numbers by a computer algorithm associated with said lottery number algorithm; and testing for correlation between the lottery numbers and the associated serial numbers of said tickets to validate winning lottery numbers and detect altered or counterfeit lottery numbers; whereby a 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
Independent Claim
353 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of physically connected instant lottery tickets for lotteries and other games, each having a serial number and a lottery number seemingly randomly associated with the serial number, said lottery number being indiscernible after the playing card is fabricated and when given to the player but transformable by the player to be intelligible for comparison with known winning lottery numbers, said method comprising; feeding a continuous strip of ticket material through a computer-controlled printer; imprinting under computer control different lottery numbers in a seemingly randomized way on successive portions of said ticket strip corresponding to individual tickets and rendering said lottery numbers indiscernible; and imprinting serial numbers on said ticket card portions under computer control seemingly randomly associated with the lottery numbers; said serial numbers being imprinted on successive physically connected ones of said lottery tickets with the serial numbers being sequential within each of a plurality of lots of tickets and providing an inventory control of the tickets in each of said lots; said lottery numbers being imprinted on said lottery tickets with each of the lottery numbers being correlated seemingly randomly to the serial number of the same ticket by a certain computer algorithm; said imprinting of lottery numbers including imprinting on said physically connected tickets in said lots a certain quantity of winning ones of said lottery numbers in a particular game, the winning lottery numbers being seemingly randomly distributed among said physically connected tickets of said lots without physical manipulation of said tickets and correlated with said serial numbers by a computer algorithm associated with said lottery number algorithm; and testing for correlation between the lottery numbers and the associated serial numbers of said tickets to validate winning lottery numbers and detect altered or counterfeit lottery numbers; whereby a 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
35 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 1 and further comprising folding said tickets in each of said lots as continuous strips of physically connected tickets.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
41 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 2 and further comprising forming perforated lines between the tickets in each of the continuous strips to render them detachable for dispensing to the player.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
33 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 3 wherein said feeding is in a fan folded fashion to produce fan folded strips of tickets.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
62 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 3 wherein said feeding is of ticket material of which corresponding to a plurality of tickets; and said imprinting is done concurrently on a plurality of parallel ticket strips; and further comprising slitting said parallel ticket strips into individual lots of strips of physically connected tickets.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
36 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 5 and further comprising shrink wrapping said lots of physically connected tickets with plastic film to form individual packages thereof.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
71 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 1 and further comprising fabricating said continuous strip of ticket material as a laminate sheet of a plurality of layers, at least one of said layers being a printable paper card stock and another being an opaque barrier layer of metallic foil; and color imprinting said laminate sheet prior to feeding through a computer-controlled printer.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
43 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 7 and further comprising forming indexing elements on said laminate sheet and perforations at certain dimensions for registration with and fan folding in a computer-controlled printer, respectively.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
46 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 1 wherein said rendering lottery numbers indiscernible includes applying an opaque layer of removable material to cover said imprinted lottery numbers and that can be rubbed off by the player.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
44 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 9 wherein said serial number imprinting is performed after the associated lottery number is rendered indiscernible to prevent operators from correlating lottery numbers to their associated serial numbers.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
45 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 10 and further comprising mechanically and randomly mixing, prior to said imprinting of serial numbers, pluralities of said lots of physically connected tickets having imprinted lottery numbers rendered indiscernible.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
37 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 1 wherein said testing for correlation between the lottery numbers and the associated serial numbers is based on said computer algorithms.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
36 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 12 wherein said testing for correlation includes automatically reading information imprinted on the tickets by means of optical reading equipment.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
75 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 1 and further comprising imprinting under computer control a validation number on each of said tickets correlated seemingly randomly to the lottery number and serial number of the same ticket by a computer algorithm; and testing for correlation of the serial, lottery and validation numbers thereof to validate winning lottery numbers and detect improperly altered or counterfeit lottery tickets.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
30 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of said instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 14 and further comprising reconstructing partially mutilated tickets by said correlating computer algorithms.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
63 words
A method of manufacturing and using lots of said instant lottery tickets as set forth in claim 14 and further comprising generating by computer and associated computer algorithms data for said lottery and validation numbers, storing said data on magnetic tapes, and thereafter performing said imprinting of said lottery and validation numbers using said data stored on magnetic tape and said computer-controlled printer.
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