Lottery ticket pack and associated method for unwrapping the pack and connecting lottery tickets of adjacent packs

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9718577-B2
Application number	US-201514802312-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 17, 2015
Priority date	Jul 17, 2015
Publication date	Aug 1, 2017
Grant date	Aug 1, 2017

Abstract

A lottery ticket pack and associated method for manipulating such packs is provided. Each individual lottery ticket pack is wrapped with a wrapping material, and a label is adhered to the wrapping material. The label includes a first portion permanently adhered to the wrapping material and a second portion having a releasable adhesive applied to a surface thereof. The label is grasped and pulled away from the ticket pack in a manner that causes the permanently adhered first portion of the label to tear the wrapping material from the ticket pack. Then, the remaining wrapping material is manually removed from the pack. The second portion of the label is used to connect the last ticket in the ticket pack to a first ticket in a separate unwrapped ticket pack by pressing the side of the second portion containing the releasable adhesive across aligned ends of the adjacent tickets.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for manipulating packs of interconnected lottery tickets, wherein each individual lottery ticket pack is wrapped with a wrapping material and a label is adhered to the wrapping material, wherein the label includes a first portion permanently adhered to the wrapping material and a second portion having a releasable adhesive applied to a surface thereof, the method comprising:
grasping and pulling the label away from the ticket pack in a manner that causes the permanently adhered first portion of the label to tear the wrapping material from the ticket pack;
manually removing all of the wrapping material from the ticket pack; and
using the second portion of the label to connect the last ticket in the ticket pack to a first ticket in a separate unwrapped ticket pack by pressing the side of the second portion containing the releasable adhesive across aligned ends of the adjacent tickets.

2. The method as in claim 1 , wherein the first and second portions of the label are linearly adjacent and defined by a perforation line, the method including separating the second portion of the label from the first portion along the perforation line after unwrapping the ticket packet.

3. The method as in claim 2 , wherein the releasable adhesive is applied to an underside of the second portion such that the second portion is releasably adhered to the wrapping material, the method comprising peeling the second portion away from the wrapping material prior to pulling the label in order to tear the wrapping material.

4. The method as in claim 3 , wherein the second portion is removed from the first portion prior to pulling the first portion in order to tear the wrapping material.

5. The method as in claim 3 , wherein the second portion is used to pull the label in order to tear the wrapping material, and is then separated from the first portion.

6. The method as in claim 2 , wherein the releasable adhesive is applied to a surface of the second portion and covered by a protective release liner, the method comprising removing the release liner prior to using the second portion to connect the tickets.

7. The method as in claim 1 , wherein the second portion of the label overlies the first portion of the label, the method comprising removing the second portion of the label from the first portion before or after tearing the wrapping material with the label.

8. A lottery ticket packet, comprising:
a fan-folded configuration of individual lottery tickets separated by perforation lines;
the fan-folded configuration wrapped with a wrapping material to form a wrapped ticket pack;
a label applied to the wrapping material, the label containing indicia relevant to the ticket pack; and
the label comprising a first portion permanently adhered to the wrapping material and a second portion having a releasable adhesive applied to a surface thereof.

9. The lottery ticket packet as in claim 8 , wherein the first and second portions of the label are linearly adjacent and defined by a perforation line.

10. The lottery ticket packet as in claim 9 , wherein the releasable adhesive is applied to an underside of the second portion such that the second portion is releasably adhered to and removable from the wrapping material by manually peeling the second portion away from the wrapping material.

11. The lottery ticket packet as in claim 9 , wherein the releasable adhesive is applied to a surface of the second portion and covered by a protective release liner.

12. The lottery ticket packet as in claim 9 , wherein the releasable adhesive is applied an underside of the second portion such that the release liner is between the wrapping material and the releasable adhesive.

13. The lottery ticket packet as in claim 9 , wherein the second portion of the label overlies the first portion of the label with the releasable adhesive between the first and second portions and adhering to the second portion upon peeling the second portion away from the first portion.

Assignees

• Scient Games Int Inc

Inventors

• Martineck Sr Jeffrey D
• Hodges Danielle Lea
• Maltman Paula Kelly

Classifications

• B65B61/182

  by applying tear-strips or tear-tapes · CPC title

• A63F3/065 Primary

  Tickets or accessories for use therewith (A63F3/0625 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B65D75/5838

  combined with separate fixed tearing means, e.g. tabs · CPC title

• G07C15/005

  with dispensing of lottery tickets · CPC title

• B65D83/12

  for tickets or tokens · CPC title