Apparatus for selling betting tickets

• US 4,032,946 A
• Filed: 09/08/1976
• Issued: 06/28/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited, Japan Racing Association
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited, Japan Racing Association
• Inventors: Miyake, Masanobu, Wakatsuki, Yuzo, Hano, Kazuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Springborn, Harvey E.
• Application Number:
  US05/721,578
• Time in Patent Office: 293 Days
• Field of Search: 340/172.5, 445/1, 235/61.1
• US Class Current: 463/25
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 1/02 employing selectable printing plates

Abstract

Herein disclosed is an apparatus for selling betting tickets. Said apparatus has a function which can correct the partial information recorded on said betting tickets. The apparatus according to the present invention comprises a register which stores the information to be sent to an electronic computer and also stores the information sent from the electronic computer, a control device which controls the sending and the receiving of information between said apparatus and said computer, a keyboard for applying the information to the register, a reading device which reads the information recorded on the betting ticket and supplies the content of said information to the register, a display device for displaying the content of the register, a means which is connected to the register and which indicates the portion to be deleted from the information recorded on the betting ticket, and a printing device which is connected to the register and which prints information on the betting ticket according to the content of said register.

Claims

1. An apparatus for use with a central processor in selling betting tickets wherein betting information recorded on an original betting ticket may be altered by said central processor in accordance with operator instructions and a new betting ticket containing altered betting information issued, said apparatus comprising means for reading the betting information from said original betting ticket, means for displaying said betting information, indication means responsive to said operator instructions for providing an output indicating the betting information to be altered, said central processor being responsive to said output of said indication means for altering the betting information so as to provide said altered betting information, and recording means for recording the altered betting information on said new betting ticket.

2. An apparatus for selling betting tickets according to claim 1, wherein said apparatus is further provided with input means for inputting said operator instructions, said instructions including add instructions indicating that further betting information is to be added, and including erase instructions indicating that certain information is to be deleted, and wherein said recording means records the betting information read by the reading means from said original betting ticket, with the betting information to be added and without the certain information to be deleted.

3. An apparatus for selling betting tickets according to claim 1 wherein said betting information is magnetically recorded on said original betting ticket, said reading means including a magnetic record reader.

4. An apparatus for selling betting tickets according to claim 3 wherein said recording means includes a magnetic record writer.

5. An apparatus for selling betting tickets according to claim 1 wherein said recording means includes a ticket printer.

6. An apparatus for selling betting tickets according to claim 1 where said indication means includes a first register connected to said reading means for receiving said betting information recorded on said original betting ticket, a second register connected to said displaying means, and control means responsive to said operator instructions for issuing a first control signal causing the transfer of said betting information in said first register to said second register, said displaying means being responsive to said first control signal for displaying said betting information recorded on said original betting ticket.

7. An apparatus for selling betting tickets according to claim 6 wherein said operator instructions include an erase instruction indicating desired deletion of a portion of said betting information, said indication means being responsive thereto for flagging said portion of said betting information to be deleted, said control means being responsive to said erase instruction for transferring said contents of said second register to said central processor which deletes said portion of said betting information to be deleted.

8. An apparatus for selling betting tickets according to claim 7 wherein said operator instructions include an add instruction indicating desired addition of new betting information, said apparatus including input means for receiving said new betting information and for providing same to said second register, said second register being responsive to said add instruction for receiving said new betting information, said control means being responsive to said add instruction for providing the contents of said second register to said central processor which adds said new betting information to be added.

9. An apparatus for selling betting tickets according to claim 6 wherein said operator instructions include an add instruction indicating desired addition of new betting information, said apparatus including input means for receiving said new betting information and for providing same to said second register, said second register being responsive to said add instruction for receiving said new betting information, said control means being responsive to said add instruction for providing the contents of said second register to said central processor which adds said new betting information to be added.

10. An appartus for selling betting tickets according to claim 6 wherein said first register has an output connected to said recording means and is responsive to a record command from said control means for receiving said altered betting information from said central processor and for providing same to said recording means.

11. An apparatus for selling betting tickets according to claim 6 wherein said recording means includes a ticket printer and said first register has an output connected to said recording means and is responsive to a print command from said control means for receiving said altered betting information from said central processor and for providing same to said ticket printer.

12. An apparatus for selling betting tickets according to claim 1 including means for computing, from said altered betting information, revised summation information and for providing said revised summation information to said recording means, said recording means being responsive thereto for recording same on said new betting tickets.

13. An apparatus for selling betting tickets according to claim 12 wherein said revised summation information is also provided to said displaying means for display to said operator.

14. An apparatus for selling betting tickets according to claim 1 wherein said altered betting information from said central processor is also provided to said displaying means for display to said operator.