NL8100699A - Chance game prize fixing method - applies covering ink layer to base material - Google Patents

Abstract

The method directly fixes prizes in position in a game of chance, a covering layer of ink (3) being applied to the base material (1) directly. This makes the counter (2), prize etc. invisible. The ink can be applied to a layer of material (4) separating it from the base material, being removable using a coin, penknife, fingernail etc., so as to make the counter visible. Alternatively the ink can be stripped off using adhesive material, or rubbed off using a hard blunt instrument.

Description

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Various games of chance with the possibility of direct price determination.

A invention for making certain competition elements invisible, which may or may not be price-determining by making it visible in a simple manner, directly or afterwards. This with regard to the provisions and requirements arising from the law on games of chance, by using the screen printing process or other such technique.

The invention relates to the removal of a covering ink layer, which ink may or may not have a special or different composition or in combination with other applied ink layers or substances, by means of scratching, stripping, rubbing, or otherwise dry-removing this ink layer or layers and / or substances, respectively, which are applied to a pre-printed paper, cardboard or other material, which is opaque or less extent.

The opaque ink layer has the property of adhering well to the printed image material. The coverage is such that the covered image is absolutely not visible and the image becomes visible only through deliberate damage. The ink layer must not dry out, lose its flexibility and not spring off the bottom layer. The ink layer can be applied in any opaque color and thus form a whole with the graphic design, it can be small circles, squares, stars, large areas or parts thereof, in short, any shape is necessary to make the underlying image invisible and can thus be well integrated into the overall graphic design.

The opaque ink layer is applied by the screen printing process or the like.

Until now, so-called scratch cards have been produced entirely in the offset process. The disadvantage of the use of offset printing lies in the fact that offset inks are opaque and the applied ink layer is very thin. The cardboard with the image to be coated thereon was first provided with a wax layer which was very critical in terms of curing and 81 00 69 9 - 2 ~

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drying. An ink layer was applied to the areas to be covered with the greatest possible coverage and provided with "certain lines or marks that distorted the underlying image. On this, the final ink layer was applied. one could remove by scratching, because by this scratching the underlying wax layer was removed.This wax layer was therefore absolutely not allowed to dry out or harden, because then the inlet layers applied thereon could no longer be removed without the underlying image. to damage.

Screen printing ink and are opaque and are applied in a thicker layer. All this is done in one or more print runs. The base material should be smooth and tightly closed in surface so not highly absorbent, e.g. crome-kote paper or cardboard or art print paper or cardboard or any other material with these properties. The opaque coating is then easiest to remove without leaving any traces and without damaging the underlying print image.

Other techniques used so far with the intended purpose, nml. direct pricing by the consumer, such as pre-punched shutters in a taped double card, blank envelopes with printing on the inside, etc., is considerably more complicated than this method.

Due to the absolute coverage of the type of ink used, this method is also preferable to other techniques, since the ink forms a tight unit with the game of chance / competition element to be hidden and can therefore not be made visible by any manipulations other than by damage or removal of the ink layer.

Fig. 1 shows the method in which the ink layer is applied directly to the base material, where 1 in the figure represents the base material, 2 the gambling / competition element to be covered and 3 the covering ink layer.

Eig.2 shows the method in which the covering ink layer 35 (3), which hides the game of chance / competition element (2), is separated from the base material by a separating layer (4).

Fig. 3 shows the method of making the game of chance / competition element visible to the consumer, by means of 8 1 0 0 6 9 9 i - 3 - stripping Using an adhesive material (5), which means the covering ink layer (3), whether or not separated from the Base Material (1) by a separating layer (4), pulls from the Base Material and the game of chance / competition element (2) becomes visible.

Fig. 4 shows the method of making the game of chance / match element visible by the consumer by means of of a coin, the nail, a knife or other object suitable therefor, wherein the covering ink layer (3), whether or not separated from the Base material (1) by a separating layer, of. the Base material is scratched away and the game of chance / match-15 element becomes visible.

Fig. 5 shows the method of using the game of chance / match element (2) by means of rub with a hard, blunt object on the back of the Base Material (l) the covering ink layer (3), whether or not separated by a separating layer (4) of the Base Material, to be transferred by the consumer to another material (5 ) so that the game of chance / match element (see also fig. 53) becomes visible.

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Claims (5)

1. Method for direct pricing in games of chance with the feature that the covering ink layer is directly applied to the base material, whereby the game of chance / competition element becomes invisible. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that the covering ink layer is coated on a layer which is to effect a separation between the base material and that ink layer. A method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the covering ink layer can be removed with a coin, nail, knife or other object that lends itself to this, whereby the game of chance / competition element is visible. 4. Method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the covering ink layer can be stripped with an adhesive material, so that the game of chance / competition element is visible. Method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the covering ink layer is dm.v. rubbing on the back with a bard or blunt object can be relocated on another material that will make the game of chance / competition visible. 8 1 0 0 69 9