FR2602692A1 - Decoder for games or bets - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a device making it possible to decode games written on game or betting slips such as: the national lottery, the pools, bets on horse races, on greyhound races, boxing, tennis, football and rugby matches, and mechanical sports. It consists of a black screen 1 printed on a translucent or transparent surface 2. The screen 1 has the format of the game grid or grids to be processed. Blank rectangular squares 3 on the screen 1 act as optical lights (apertures) at the locations corresponding to the results. Other blank spaces 4 and lines 5 arranged on the screen 1 make it possible to select the winning grids. Circular blank spaces 6 make it possible to differentiate certain complementary or bonus results. The official results appear as figures or as letters on a reserved space of the decoder. The device according to the invention is intended particularly for decoding game or betting slips.

Description

 The present invention relates to a device making it possible to decode instantly and without complex manipulations the games entered on a bulletin or a grid of games or bets such as: national lotto, sports lotto, bets on horse races, greyhounds, box matches, tennis, football, rugby and mechanical sports.

 The decoding of games and betting bulletins is traditionally carried out by comparing the games entered on the bulletins with lists of results transmitted by the press, radio, television, telematics, as well as the official displays in the validation offices. In either case, decoding is a tedious and slow operation that can generate errors, congestion in validation centers and a significant loss of time. Certain existing methods already allow decoding after complex manipulation on the part of the user, the process of locating the results not being eliminated. In most cases, you must either scratch, pierce or blacken manually the boxes corresponding to the good results with all the risks of errors that this may entail.

 The device according to the invention makes it possible to remedy these drawbacks by providing simplifications as to the use, operation, manufacture and by introducing into the media world a new communication tool particularly oriented towards decoding games and bets.

 It indeed has a black screen or cover on a translucent or transparent support. The translucent or transparent support is cut to the format of the bulletin to be treated or according to a variant perhaps slightly longer or shorter on the upper part or longer or shorter on one of the sides. Positioning takes place by making only three sides of the decoder coincide with the bulletin. The user performs horizontal and vertical alignment by gravity by placing the lower edges of the bulletin and the decoder together on any flat surface.

The screen, preferably black in order to accentuate the visual contrasts, perhaps for reasons of aesthetics of different color, or even to combine several colors. The screen preferably has the format and dimensions of the grids to be processed, but may have, for aesthetic or practical reasons, the total format of the bulletin and entirely mask it apart from the blank decoding spaces;
The screen is printed on the translucent or transparent support so as to automatically coincide with the game or betting grids by manual alignment of the translucent or transparent support constituting the rigid part of the
decoder. The screen is printed by reprographic process using a photoco-
conventional copier, but can also be printed in offset or serigraphy from a matrix prepared in advance.

Blank boxes acting as optical lights are positioned
on the screen in the locations corresponding to the results. These boxes, preferably
rence of rectangular or square shape can also be circular or
oval in the case where a particular discrimination of signs or results
is essential and it is necessary to differentiate certain results acting as a bonus,
additional, additional or additive number or result. These boxes have
preferably the approximate dimensions of the boxes of the bulletin to be processed without
as much overflow onto the adjoining boxes to avoid any risk of confusion
in reading the results. These boxes are slightly larger than the ca
its from the newsletter to improve eye contact which may be impaired by the
translucent material of the support or simply by an optical phenomenon da to e
screen dark state.

The meeting of the automatic alignment of the decoder and by way of cons
screen quences and blank boxes on the bulletin to be processed allow a
immediate interpretation of the signs or results of the dice grid (s)
code. In order to provide the user with an additional means of control, the official results are written in numbers or letters on the part of the support
remaining available for this purpose.

Each decoder is intended for use corresponding to a set
single results or for a well-defined draw.

According to a preferred embodiment, the device is produced and
printed on tracing paper weighing between 40 and 190 grams per m2
be square, traditionally made from vegetable fibers, in general
wood, mechanically or mechanically-chemically treated. The rigid support of the die
encoder can be made in other materials offering qualities of trans
superior to tracing paper such as: PVC, polyesthers, thermoplas
ticks based on cellulose acetate or polypropylene materials. The choice of
tracing paper decoder is generated by the fact that the tracing paper is biodegraded
dimmable.

 Figure 1 shows, seen from the front, the device according to the invention.

 Figure 2 shows, seen from the front, the device according to a variant.

 FIG. 3 represents, seen from the front, the device according to a variant.

 Figure 4 shows, seen from the front, the device according to a variant.

 FIG. 5 represents, seen from the front, the device according to a variant.

 The device represented in FIG. 1 comprises a black screen (1) having dimensions of the order of 15.1 centimeters for the length and 5.1 centimeters for the width printed on a translucent support (2) in tracing paper having dimensions of the order of 16 centimeters for the length and 10.7 centimeters for the width. Blank boxes (3) serving as optical lights are positioned on the screen in the locations corresponding to the results. These boxes (3) have dimensions of the order of 0.4 centimeters by 0.3 centimeters and the circular blank boxes (6) have average diameters of the order of 0.45 centimeters. Blank spaces (4) and lines (5) arranged on one screen allow the winning grids to be selected on the multiple game ballots.

 The device according to the invention is particularly intended for decoding games and bets.

Claims (3)

EEYNDICATIONS  1) Device for decoding grids and betting and betting slices characterized in that it comprises a translucent support (2) rigid or semi-rigid on which is printed a black screen (1) on which are positioned blank rectangular boxes ( 3) corresponding to the locations of the good results of the game or the grid, blank spaces (4), dividing lines (5) to select the winning grids and circular blank spaces (6) allowing to differentiate certain results occurring as bonus or additional number.  2) Device according to claim 1 characterized in that this decoder may be made of tracing paper, PVC, polyester, acetate-based thermoplastic or polypropylene material.  3) Application of the device according to claims 1 and 2, to the decoding of games and bets such as: national lotto, sports lotto, toto football, bets on horse races, greyhounds, boxing fights, tennis matches, football, rugby and mechanical sports.