EP0310612A1 - Procede de validation d'informations introduites sur des billets, cartes, et autres substrats en papier similaires, et substrat en papier utilise a cet effet - Google Patents

Procede de validation d'informations introduites sur des billets, cartes, et autres substrats en papier similaires, et substrat en papier utilise a cet effet

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EP0310612A1
EP0310612A1 EP19870903698 EP87903698A EP0310612A1 EP 0310612 A1 EP0310612 A1 EP 0310612A1 EP 19870903698 EP19870903698 EP 19870903698 EP 87903698 A EP87903698 A EP 87903698A EP 0310612 A1 EP0310612 A1 EP 0310612A1
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Prior art keywords
sheets
copying
paper substrate
paper
substrate according
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German (de)
English (en)
Inventor
Antonio Di Bella
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Chetjack Ltd
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Chetjack Ltd
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Priority claimed from IT8620833A external-priority patent/IT8620833A0/it
Priority claimed from IT8720476A external-priority patent/IT8720476A0/it
Application filed by Chetjack Ltd filed Critical Chetjack Ltd
Publication of EP0310612A1 publication Critical patent/EP0310612A1/fr
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
    • A63F3/06—Lottos or bingo games; Systems, apparatus or devices for checking such games
    • A63F3/065—Tickets or accessories for use therewith
    • A63F3/0665—Tickets or accessories for use therewith having a message becoming legible after rubbing-off a coating or removing an adhesive layer
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A63F9/0641—Patience; Other games for self-amusement using a marker or means for drawing, e.g. pen, pencil, chalk
    • A63F2009/0651—Patience; Other games for self-amusement using a marker or means for drawing, e.g. pen, pencil, chalk with means for copying
    • A63F2009/0652—Patience; Other games for self-amusement using a marker or means for drawing, e.g. pen, pencil, chalk with means for copying using carbon paper

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  • This invention relates to a method of validating information entered on tickets, cards, and the like paper substrates, e.g. in games requiring certification of that such information has been entered prior to unsealing the substrate.
  • the invention also concerns a paper substrate, suc-h as a ticket, card, or the like, of a type which comprises at least two overlapping' sheets bound together, one of which has at least a portion of its surface facing the other sheet coated with a copying material.
  • Games are common wherein a multiplicity of tickets, cards, reply cards, and the like paper substrates are dispensed to the public. Each substrate carries different arrangements of symbols, including alphanumeri al characters, patterns, etc.; The game is organized for- the drawing of some of the symbols possibly in accordance with a given arrangement thereof. The holder of a card exhibiting some or all of the symbols drawn is winning. Typical examples of such games are bingo and other like lot games.
  • the series of symbols are drawn periodically, such as on daily, weekly, or monthly basis. To participate, one is merely required to buy a card, or a -ticket,, allotted a given time for drawing, and then check for the symbol arrangements upon drawing.
  • the prior art has proposed that, in printing and- distributing the game paper substrates, the time -lapse be indicated during which a particular substrate is eligible to enter the game.
  • the technical problem underlying this invention is to afford irrefutable validation of information entered by a player on a game substrate by immediate detection of any fraudolent acts whereby the player might enter the validating information after unsealing the substrate and learning the winning combination.
  • a paper substrate according to the invention as specified ( hereinabove, i s * characterized in that the copying material is applied to said at least one surface portion according to a coded distribution.
  • Figure 1 is an exploded perspective view of a paper substrate in the form of a multi layered ticket, according to this invention
  • Figure 2 is a perspective view of the substrate shown in Figure 1;
  • Figure 3 is an exploded perspective view of two of the layers or sheets which make up the ticket of the preceding figures, in a first embodiment thereof;
  • Figure 4 shows a different embodiment of the same layers or sheets as shown in Figure 3;
  • Figures 5 and 6 are perspective views of a two-sheet ticket according to the invention, respectively in the overlapping and raised off conditions thereof;
  • Figure 7 is a sectional detail view of the second sheet in the ticket of figures 5 and 6.
  • the reference numeral 1 designates generally a ticket-like paper substrate for a lot game.
  • the substrate 1 hereinafter referred to as the "ticket"
  • the substrate comprises a first or front sheet 2, a second or intermediate sheet 3, and a third sheet 4 intended for the wager proper.
  • the surface 5 On the sheet 4, there is identified a surface 5 facing the other sheets and being normally concealed from view by the sheets 2 and 3 with the ticket intact.
  • the surface 5 carries a plurality of symbols indicated schematically at 6, such as either alphanumerical characters or patterns arranged in a selected order.
  • the sheets 2,3,4 are attached to one another peripherally in a manner known per se. Furthermore, the sheets 2 and 4 are attached to the sheet 3 at different spots by means of impressions or crimps 7.
  • the sheet 3 is apt to be torn, or deformed beyond remedy, depending on the material used to make the sheet.
  • T-earing would occur whe ' re the sheet 3 is fo ⁇ ned from a * , th,in paper material, whereas deformation is Likely to occur where the sheet 3 is formed from a defor able plastics.
  • a surface 10 facing the surface 5 is defined on the sheet 3. At least one portion 11 of the surface 10 is coated with a conventional copying material such as copying carbon.
  • the carbon coat is applied to the portion 11 in a bar code form.
  • the carbon bars 12 are interleaved to uncoated strips. The distance between any two adjacent bars 12 and the width of each bar 12 will produce a selected code pattern.
  • the carbon coating only occupies an edge portion of the surface 10 and extends crosswise to the main longitudinal dimension of the ticket 1. It stands to reason that the carbon coating may be applied to different portions of the surface 10, e.g. those at the symbols reproduced on the surface 5, in order to meet some specific requirements.
  • the information such as the wager date, are hard copy entered on the portion 15 and automatically transfer, by a copying process owing to the partially carboned sheet 3, to the surface 5 in coded form.
  • the sheets 3 and 4 of the ticket shown in Figure 4 have respective surfaces 11 and 5 of two-component chemical copying paper.
  • the components of the paper employed are known per se and of the icroencapsulated type on respective confronting surfaces of the sheets 3,4, thereby the microcapsules will break under the pressure exerted in writing, causing the two components to mix together.
  • the two mixed components leave a trace which is the equivalent of a writing tj*ace.
  • the microcapsules are distributed over each of the surfaces 11 and 5 in an orderly arrangement to form a bar or watermark code indicated at 20 in the drawing figure.
  • the invention affords endorsement of that the wager validation information, e.g. the desired drawout date, has been entered prior to unsealing the ticket, and hence, to ascertaining whether the symbols drawn out happen to correspond with the symbols carried on the surface 5.
  • the wager validation information e.g. the desired drawout date
  • a ticket comprehensively designated 100, comprises first and second sheets indicated at 101 and 102, respectively, which overlap each other and are bound together along a common side 104, e.g. by gluing.
  • the opposed (back) surface of the first sheet 101 is coated with a first chemical copying paper component spread either over the entire surface or part of it.
  • a first chemical copying paper component spread either over the entire surface or part of it.
  • Such a component is known per se, quite familiar to the skilled ones in the copying paper art, and imparts the back of the sheet 101 with receiving surface properties, that is a surface whereto what the player has entered on the front side of the first sheet is transferred by a copying process, as explained hereinafter.
  • first and second series of blocks respectively designated 110 and 111.
  • the blocks 110 and 111 are all coated with an opaque detachable layer 112 (Figure 3), such as a paint which can be rubbed off by either abrasion or the application of such readily available solvents as water or alcohol. These paints are known in the industry as scratch-out paints.
  • the first series of blocks is located exactly in the validation area formed by the blocks 106,107 and 108 of the first sheet 101.
  • each block in the second series 111 there is reproduced a further symbol 113, such as an alphanumerical character or a pattern, preferably a different one from those reproduced below the first series of blocks 110.
  • a further symbol 113 such as an alphanumerical character or a pattern, preferably a different one from those reproduced below the first series of blocks 110.
  • a second component for chemical copying paper.
  • This second component is in a microencapsulated form dispersed in a wax-like paint which is spread over the opaque layer 112 in parallel sections of different width and at different spacings to define a bar code indicated at 120.
  • the code 120 extends preferably beyond the opaque layer 112 to occupy some of the surface of the second sheet 102.
  • the sections of wax-like paint forming said code 120 are normally invisible because thoroughly transparent. They have been depicted in Figure 2, however, for convenience of illustration. They are removable together with the opaque layer 112 in the validation region, but absorbed in the sheet 102, and hence not removabLe from the remaining surface of the sheet 102.
  • the distribution of the components for chemical copying paper is such that on applying a validation, e.g. the wager date, to the three blocks 106,107 and 108, causing the microcapsules containing the second component for chemical copying paper to break under the pressure being exerted, localized intermixing of such components results, by a copying process, in a mirror-image reproduction 121 of the date entered in the blocks 106,107,108 on the receiving surface of the first sheet 101.
  • a validation e.g. the wager date
  • the validation date * Owing to the coded arrangement of the second component for copying paper over the opaque layer 112, the validation date * , .will be * imaged in dash lines, conforming with that same bar code as used to deposit said component on the second sheet 102.
  • a pressure is applied over a strip spanning an edge portion of the validation region, transversely to the bar code as by having a small wheel run thereacross, for example.
  • That pressure will also result in breakage of the microcapsules containing the second component for chemical copying paper and formation of an impression 130 on the receiving surface of the first sheet 101 facing the second sheet 102.
  • This impression forms a key for reading the bar code and enables verification that the code whereby the validation date has been transferred does correspond with the original code reported on the second sheet 102 of the ticket.
  • a player In- order to validate the ticket 100, a player should enter the date on which he/she means to have his/her ticket accepted to the game prior to checking the layout of the symbols 113.
  • the validation date is written in the blocks 106,107 and 108 and transferred by a copying process to the back of the first sheet 101. As already mentioned above, that date will be transferred in dash-line form according to the bar code shown on the opaque- layer 112 of the first series of blocks 110.
  • the player should remove the opaque layer 112 from the first series of blocks to uncover the symbols 114 underneath.
  • the bar code applied on the opaque layer will be destroyed, thereby the ticket validation operation cannot be repeated.
  • a further check of the validation having been correctly applied, on exhibiting the ticket before the game organization may be carried out by applying a pressure on the first sheet 101, such as by having a small wheel run over the bar code not removed from the sheet 102 in the area lying between the first and second series of blocks 110,11. If the first sheet 101 has not been replaced deceptively, its receiving surface (back) will show a mirror-image impression of the bar code 120. In order for the ticket to be properly validated, the impression, not shown in the drawings, should match the reading key 130.
  • the first and second components for chemical paper would be.selected to prevent the trace left on the receiving surface (back) of the sheet 101 from becoming immediately visible to the player after entering the validation date, but rather to be developable or detectable later by means of suitable conventional reactants.
  • the principal advantages of this invention include elimination of the need to have the wager validated by a collection office or another foreign entity to the player, and hence, a game set up which is more flexible and convenient to operate.
  • the ticket is simple to manufacture and easy to use even by unskilled players, and the validation provided ensures full qualification of a winning ticket by ruling out any likelihooh of illicit manipulation.

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Abstract

Afin de valider des informations introduites sur des billets, cartes, et autres substrats en papier similaire (1, 100) exigeant de vérifier que l'information a été introduite avant de décoller le substrat, les informations recopiées sur une première surface (2, 101) du substrat sont simultanément transférées, par un processus de copiage, sous forme codée à une seconde surface (5, 101) du substrat. Ladite vérification est réalisée à l'aide d'une clé de lecture (14, 130) pour le code de transfert.
EP19870903698 1986-06-18 1987-06-03 Procede de validation d'informations introduites sur des billets, cartes, et autres substrats en papier similaires, et substrat en papier utilise a cet effet Withdrawn EP0310612A1 (fr)

Applications Claiming Priority (4)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
IT2083386 1986-06-18
IT8620833A IT8620833A0 (it) 1986-06-18 1986-06-18 Metodo di convalida di dati riportati su biglietti, cartoline e simili supporti cartacei esupporto cartaceo secondo tale metodo.
IT8720476A IT8720476A0 (it) 1987-05-12 1987-05-12 Biglietti e simili a convalida perfezionata.
IT2047687 1987-05-12

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EP0310612A1 true EP0310612A1 (fr) 1989-04-12

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EP (1) EP0310612A1 (fr)
AU (1) AU7490087A (fr)
GR (1) GR870918B (fr)
NZ (1) NZ220563A (fr)
PT (1) PT85114A (fr)
WO (1) WO1987007846A1 (fr)

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