Lottery ticket reviewing device

• US 4,772,025 A
• Filed: 09/21/1987
• Issued: 09/20/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jimmie J. James, Susanna Melnilcoff
• Original Assignee: Jimmie J. James, Susanna Melnilcoff
• Inventors: James, Jimmie J., Melnilcoff, Susanna
• Primary Examiner(s): Oechsle, Anton O.
• Application Number:
  US07/098,809
• Time in Patent Office: 365 Days
• Field of Search: 273/148 R, 434/354
• US Class Current: 273/148.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0625 Devices for filling-in or checking
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 11/02 for validating inserted tickets

Abstract

A device in the configuration and appearance of a slot machine enables a lottery player to compare the combination of numbers he has selected and entered in the lottery with the winning series of numbers from a lottery drawing. A window in the front of the fanciful slot machine device displays numbers on dial wheels which are set by the user in accordance with the winning numbers drawn in the lottery. Below the winning lottery number window is a window or series of windows disposed in a horizontal line, for displaying the user'"'"'s selected combination of numbers from a lottery ticket fed through an infeed slot and into position by means of an advancing wheel or knob manually rotated by the user. All number combinations selected by the user can be compared directly with the winning numbers by advancing the ticket, number series by number series, to make comparisons sequentially to the winning number combination.

Claims

1. A device for comparing lottery tickets to winning lottery numbers, in a lottery game wherein a series of numbers are selected by customers, which if successfully selected will match a series of winning numbers drawn in the lottery, comprising:

a housing generally in the configuration of and having the appearance of a slot machine, but smaller in size,

a series of manually settable number dials or wheels rotatably mounted in the housing, each number dial having all possible numbers which can potentially be selected in the lottery for each number position, the number of number dials being at least equal to the number of numbers to be selected in the lottery drawing for which the device is used, so that the user/lottery customer can set the number dials to match the winning numbers selected in a lottery drawing, with the series of winning numbers appearing in a horizontal series through an opening in the front of the device,

a lottery ticket infeed slot in the front of the housing,

rotatable ticket feed means in the housing and adjacent to the infeed slot, with a manually rotatable knob outside the housing, for advancing a lottery ticket into and through the housing when the lottery ticket is placed in the infeed slot and the knob is manually rotated,

ticket viewing window means in the front of the housing, in a generally linear horizontal arrangement and positioned so that numbers on a lottery ticket are viewable through the window means, with a ticket number directly adjacent to and aligned vertically with each of the manually dialed lottery winning numbers visible at the front of the device,

and an outfeed slot in the device, through which the lottery ticket exits the device,

whereby the user can first determine the published winning numbers in a lottery and set the plurality of number dials accordingly to expose the series of winning lottery numbers on the dials at the front of the machine, arranged in a horizontal line in a prescribed sequence as published, then feed into the device a lottery ticket having customer-selected series of numbers, rotate the knob to advance the lottery ticket into the device to a point where the first row of numbers on the ticket is directly behind the window means and thus adjacent to the manually input numbers on the number dials, number by number, and make a comparison of the numbers; and

if multiple series of customer-selected lottery numbers are on the lottery ticket, the user can review each series of numbers sequentially, comparing them with the adjacent series of winning numbers and advancing the lottery ticket forward through the device to position the next series of numbers on the ticket behind the viewing windows, make another comparison, and so on.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the lottery ticket viewing window means is below the exposed numbers of the manual dials, as the front of the device is viewed.

3. The device of claim 1, further including a bonus number dial at the top of the housing, for setting a bonus number selected in the lottery and positioning it to be viewed through a bonus number window in front of the housing.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the bonus number dial has adjacent to it a housing portion giving the appearance of a coin slot at the top of the housing.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the housing has attached to one side a non-functional slot machine lever, adding to the appearance of a slot machine.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the ticket outfeed slot is at the rear of the housing.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the rotatable ticket feed means comprises a single soft, high-friction roller for engaging a surface of the lottery ticket.