Automated teller machine transaction receipts with integral promotional game

• US 4,671,512 A
• Filed: 06/05/1985
• Issued: 06/09/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dittler Brothers, Inc. (RR Donnelley & Sons Company)
• Original Assignee: Dittler Brothers, Inc. (RR Donnelley & Sons Company)
• Inventors: Heninger, Byrne E., Bachman, Gilbert
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAPIRO, PAUL
• Application Number:
  US06/741,594
• Time in Patent Office: 734 Days
• Field of Search: 273/139, 283/102, 283/903, 283/100, 283/101, 283/57, 283/103
• US Class Current: 273/139
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0665 having a message becoming legible after rubbing-off a coating or removing an adhesive layer for educational purposes G09B
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 5/00 Receipt-giving machines cash registers giving receipts G07G1/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/903 Lottery ticket

Abstract

A receipt stock with integral game to promote the use of automated teller machines (ATMs) by bank customers. The reverse side of the receipt contains playing spaces contiguously disposed along a longitudinal edge of the receipt stock which does not contact the press rollers which convey the receipt through the ATM. Game indicia are printed on the playing spaces, and a protective coating of clear varnish is applied over the indicia. To conceal the game indicia from view until the receipt is distributed to a customer, an opaque masking layer of latex is applied over the playing spaces. The protective coating of varnish prevents the masking layer from penetrating the surface of the paper and thus promotes easy removal of the masking layer by the game player, e.g. by scaping with the edge of a coin. The selective application of the protective coating only to surfaces of the receipt which do not contact the press rollers prevents the receipt stock from slipping when engaged by the rollers. Similarly, the selective positioning of the playing spaces so as not to contact the press rollers prevents the rollers from damaging the latex masking layer and fouling the drive mechanism of the ATM.

Claims

1. A transaction receipt for use in an automated teller machine which prints transaction information on the obverse surface of said receipt and which has top and bottom pressure rollers which engage portions of the obverse and reverse surfaces of said receipt to convey said receipt through the automated teller machine, said receipt comprising;

paper stock having non-smooth obverse and reverse surfaces, such that the receipt will not slip when engaged by the pressure rollers of the automated teller machine;

game indicia imprinted on a portion of said reverse surface of said paper stock which is not contacted by the bottom pressure roller;

a release coating applied over said game indicia, whereby said game indicia may be viewed through said release coating; and

a selectively removable opaque masking applied over said release coating so that said masking does not penetrate said reverse surface of said paper stock, whereby said game indicia are concealed from view until said masking is removed.

2. The transaction receipt of claim 1, wherein said release coating comprises a clear varnish.

3. The transaction receipt of claim 1, wherein said opaque masking comprises latex.

4. A transaction receipt for use in an automated teller machine which prints transaction information on the obverse surface of said receipt and which has top and bottom pressure rollers which engage the central portions of the obverse and reverse surfaces of said receipt to convey said receipt through the automated teller machine, said receipt comprising:

paper stock having non-smooth obverse and reverse surfaces, whereby the receipt will not slip when engaged by the pressure rollers of the automated teller machine;

game indicia imprinted along a portion of said reverse surface of said paper stock contiguous to a lateral edge thereof, whereby the bottom pressure roller of the automated teller machine does not contact said game indicia as the receipt is conveyed through the machine;

a release coating applied over said game indicia, whereby said game indicia may be viewed through said release coating; and

a selectively removable opaque masking applied over said release coating so that said masking does not penetrate said reverse surface of said paper stock, whereby said game indicia are concealed from view until said masking is removed.

5. The transaction receipt of claim 4, wherein said release coating comprises a clear varnish.

6. The transaction receipt of claim 4, wherein said opaque masking comprises latex

7. A method for providing a game for users of automated teller machines which automated teller machines print transaction information on the obverse surface of a transaction receipt and which have top and bottom pressure rollers which engage portions of the obverse and reverse surfaces of said transaction receipt to convey said receipt through said automated teller machines, said method comprising the steps of:

providing a transaction receipt for use in said automated teller machines having game indicia printed on a portion of said reverse surface of said receipt which is not contacted by said bottom pressure roller, said receipt further having a release coating applied over said gam indicia such that said game indicia may be viewed through said release coating, and said receipt further having a selectively removable opaque masking over said release coating such that said masking does not penetrate said reverse surface of said transaction receipt, whereby said game indicia are concealed from view until said masking is removed; and

causing validating indicia to be imprinted on said receipt as by said automated teller machine said receipt is conveyed therethrough such that said receipt comprises a valid game only if such validating indicia are imprinted thereon.