Burglarproof device for lottery ticket dispenser

• US 5,803,308 A
• Filed: 12/12/1995
• Issued: 09/08/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chern-Bao Rong
• Original Assignee: Chern-Bao Rong
• Inventors: Rong, Chern-Bao
• Primary Examiner(s): SKAGGS JR, H GRANT
• Application Number:
  US08/570,898
• Time in Patent Office: 1,001 Days
• Field of Search: 221/7, 221/277, 221/255, 271/10.11
• US Class Current: 221/7
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 3/02 from stock in wound strip form
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 5/06 for preventing fraudulent operation
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 11/42 the articles being delivered by motor-driven means

Abstract

A burglarproof lottery ticket dispenser includes a triggering element having a handle. The triggering element is mounted on a slide shaft such that the handle is capable of locating or actuating a drive shaft. The dispenser further includes a driven shaft on which a driven element and a pawl are mounted. The driven element is provided with a driven gear engageable with a rotation gear, and an inner ratchet wheel capable of cooperating with the pawl. An electronic eye for counting the dispensed lottery tickets is located on an opening which is located between the ticket guiding arcuate edge and the second stopping edge of the upper and the lower guide plates.

Claims

1. A burglarproof lottery ticket dispenser comprising:

main body;

a servomotor mounted longitudinally in said main body, said servomotor having a worm rod as an output shaft;

a drive shaft positioned in said main body, said drive shaft having a driving roller mounted thereon, said driving roller being provided with a worm wheel engageable with said worm rod, said drive shaft further having a rotation gear mounted thereon, said main body provided therein with an upper guide plate and a lower guide plate, an auxiliary roller means being mounted on a driven shaft such that said auxiliary roller means is in contact with said driving roller, said auxiliary roller means for dispensing a lottery ticket, said drive shaft of said driving roller fastened with a link rod and a slide rod fastened with a triggering element, said triggering element being mounted at a front end thereof on said slide rod, said triggering element having a handle means at a rear end thereof, said handle means for actuating said drive shaft, said driven shaft fastened with a driven element and a pawl, said driven element having a driven gear engageable with said rotation gear, said driven gear having a ratchet wheel capable of cooperating with said pawl, said upper and lower guide plates each being provided with a first stopping edge and a second stopping edge and a ticket guiding arcuate edge and an opening located between said ticket guiding arcuate edge and said second stopping edge, said opening having an electronic eye means mounted thereon, said electronic eye means for counting lottery tickets that have been dispensed, said upper guide plate provided at a midsegment thereof with a front baffle and a rear guide edge, said lower guide plate provided at a midsegment thereof with a front guide edge and a rear baffle.