US2925288A - Tickets and method of preparing the same - Google Patents

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Feb. 16, 1960 R. l. N. WEINGART TICKETS AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME Filed May 14, I 1953 FIGZ A 2 sewus SEASIDE PARK CM6 2 JV 0 WIN IO TEN IN VEN TOR.

RICHARD l. N-WEINGART Bya/ ATTORNEY.

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' the tickets which are eventually cut from the ticket strip by the ticket printing and issuing machine. 7 If the shortest length of aticket is three inches the v sequential control numbers which are pre-printed onlthe TICKETS AND 55 ticket strip may be printed, for example, two'i nchesapart 7 and accordingly some of the. tickets will have two control Richard -Nw n t New t numbers but each ticket will have at least one'control.

number. In some instances a number will be cut down ApphcanQn.May14"1953 i 3554237 the middle so that half will appear on one ticket and 1 Claim. (Cl. 283-9) s the remaining half on another. In every ticket, however, 'there will be at least one whole control number.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that the numbers are not pre-printed for the purpose of determining the This invent on r l s to tickets which are issued by 15. number of tickets sold. The ticket printing and issuingticket P g mafiihines d 33 more Particularly t0 machine does this." These numbers exist solely to pre a novel method of Preparing tickets with Sequential vent fraud and to improve accounting practices. As aprs which reduces the P i y of fraud n t p t of plied to a race track, if a ticket is printed after the event handlers of the ticket machines. a it is possible to detect the fraud when it is presented for e ticket ahd 9 ih? p f invention. h 2 payment. Thus if a particular machine issues 620 tickets variety of e one of wh qh s inr i n w t t c t in a day 'and the numbers, starting, for example, with soldto customers at therace tracks. 324 have gone up to 1264, the, ticketseller will actuate The tracks are PI Y 1 1 h a t a r-eangluthe the machin'eonce more and print a testfticketlwhich V betting odds continue to ch' ange upttq the momentj the will bear-the'numberf1265. Test tickets are'thenjtaken- Trace ts n s a r v b l g thepatrbnstof from all .the other machinesand are assembled, att'hj jthe, track. Each trackhasa numberi-of ticket"issuihg cashiers window." Accordingly, if on the dayfollo'wing i i machines attended by ticket sellers .';AsYsoon as, a race the race three tickets from :theaforesaidamachine, on a iist'arts the many. machines-become automatically locked f winninghorse,and bearing. numbers11266, l267"and l268 L): from'a centralistation so thatf no more tickets can, be Qt -are presented for-payment' thejcashier-will quickly-5note sold and the betting-odds determinedat thestart of the fithe' highest; 'numberforfthe previousdayi for-thatxparrace-are unchanged. a 3 i I I gt, ticular'machine and will reject the spuriousticketsr V The ticket issuing. machines are delicate instrumentali- It. will be apparentfrom the foregoing. that another V -ties and'ni'nst-be serviced daily to-keep therriinitop lwqr object of the"inventionistto provide aneasy: method of} ing order; The ticketseller cannot rint'additiQnalIickets fc ibtainingfchronological -'control of ticket 'sel1in'g',"ii.e.,'

on the winning horsegafter the race sinceftheinachin "ofj'deterniiningwithin?whatltirne period a given'ticket'is; V, is locked., JIhe' mechanic, howevergwhojselfvibes the sold. typefof control could be partially achieyed if 7 machinesafter racing hours can-dojs'oand theftickets so, i the printing mechanism in th e'ticket issuing 'ma'chine has produced are not in any realistic sense o'unterfeits? i l since "a 'nurnbe'ringhe'adwhich prints consecutive numbers as are printedby ema' 'e hi P S ill? lawf Tethe ticketsfareissued. But in that instance ,;there.is;

tickets, and these spuri: li ticketsljmust be redeemed nothing to, preyentla person having access'to the mecha-i" presented for payment becau se therefis 'nojme'thodj of ni' sm from,at'a.lateritime printing tickets having hum-2;}

. .j.diiferentiating them frompfroperly issued tickets Th bersid tical with'--;numbersprinted. at an earlier time:

j spurious tickets-arealwaysprinted-p11- orses'payiri th possiblewhen the pre-printed'.controlnumbers 1;" .,heaviestodds;all'to the'lossof the- H eselnt invention areemploye d w taxingauthority.)

' lhe ticket andflmetho'd adaptedprimarily for. use printing machineiofgthe'type o n L 4 j with printing'roller's and a'fr ctiong'fee Th sv typ'e-of. :machine isffaster andgives a cleaner impressionlthan' does a platen printingmac'hine Because-of-"the' friction feed I D the ticketsiare almost never of precisely the same length and the variation in length is sometirnes 'rather; large and I J tickets issuedby differentmachines j vary: one from an-ii tl1ese numbers e strip' prints the consecutive-nu 'arejspacedapart dist other. Large or small, this variation in length isacone; shortest length thatisisever'e'dsiderable advantage in that itcauses' the machine printingf'. cordinglybeseen that the first leiig i V, l T to bear a difierentrelationship to the 'prefprinting on the printed thereon, lengths 16 andlThaveEa "single-- umber,-

ticket strip and therefore prevents fraud by .rtheiact of l and between lengths 17 and 18 a nur nberihaslbeen.severed tearing two tickets on non-'winninghorses,'re-arranging 6 through the center. These; numbers haveno"significance'{ the pieces-and thuspro'ducing a winningti cket tor-a :to the holder of the ticket. i

given race; This pre printing is in theform :of; running I Fig. '2 shows an"enlar'ged view of a singlefticket which words or design usually disposed longitudinally of the N has been printed by the machine, earlierdesjcribed and ticket strip and such words. orl'designs are differently "severed fromtheroll. It hasgth'e number 'of the-race, a placed on each successive ticket, either if each ticket; codeword which changes periodically, the name of the 7 length varies, or if this pre-printing is out of phase with i track, the number of the'machine issuing the ticket, etc. the ticket length; I j In addition it hasthe consecutive control numbers 147 'An object of the present invention is to provide a-ticket and 148. All the data except these two numbers, is

strip which will eliminate the printing ofticketsaftenthe. printed by the friction feed ticket issuing machine.

event without detection at the-time, of cashing 'and'the 7 In addition to preventing fraudvin the manner described invention consists broadly in pre-printing control nume qthe' pre-printed-control numbers have other uses as well. n V hers in sequence on the ticket strip, which numbers are If a p'erson-hasit in:mind1to print counterfeit tickets he L i f would at least prefer to print them on authentic stock and if he succeeds in getting a length of the stock out of the machine at night that fact will be obvious to the ticket seller the next day when he prints his beginning-ofthe-day test ticket and compares it with the previous days closing control number.

it also brackets each period in which a given ticket is issued. For example, when race No. 7 is run the race number for the next race is changed in all machines simul taneously from a central control point. The solenoid controlling this change may stick in a given machine and before the seller detects that his tickets for the 8th race are printed Race No. 7, .Je-may have sold 10 tickets. The consecutive control numbers on the ticket strip will identify those so sold.

To the contrary, if a customer presents four tickets, two on the seventh race and two on the eighth race and insists that he bought all four at the same time and that the machine made a mistake, the serial numbers will prove the falsity of the assertions.

The term friction feed as used herein refers to any method of feeding wherein there is a lack of any means for accurately pre-determining ticket length. Where control numbers are referred to herein and in the appended claims, it will be understood to refer to numbers, letters or any other sequential control indicia. The terms sequential. and consecutive as used herein and in the appended claims will be understood to refer to any system of indicia which indicates the order in which tickets are issued. In other words the sequential indicia need not run 1, 2, 3 but could run 2, 4 6 or a, b, c.

'It will be appreciated thatthe structure and method disclosed herein may be varied considerably without departing from the spirit of the invention as defined by the appended claim.

What I claim is:

The method of determining the chronology of issuance of a series of racing tickets cut from a continuous strip of paper, which method consists in pre-printing sequential control numbers in substantially equally spaced relation on the paper strip before the strip is placed in a machine for printing and issuing the tickets, then individually printing the racing indicia on individual tickets before the same are cut from the strip, and then cutting the individual tickets from the strip in varying lengths, said lengths being greater than the spacing between the control numbers.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,011,549 Yantis Dec. 12, 1911 1,804,238 Tensfeldt May 5, 1931 2,293,055 Freedman Aug. 18, 1942 2,309,398 I Keller Jan. 26, 1943 2,525,918 London Oct. 17, 1950 FOREIGN PATENTS 1 769,705 France June '11, 1934'

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