EP0972548A2 - Scratch-off lottery tickets and method for their manufacture - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
- B41M3/00—Printing processes to produce particular kinds of printed work, e.g. patterns
- B41M3/005—Colour cards; Painting supports; Latent or hidden images, e.g. for games; Time delayed images
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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
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- the invention relates to scratch cards in the form of tickets made of raw paper, thin cardboard or plastic, which are printed in one or more colors with a lettering and / or decor, leaving profit-display fields free, characters, numbers and / or or symbols for the display of profit or loss and these are covered invisibly with an abrasion or rub off layer until they are sold.
- Such scratch cards must inevitably be manufactured in a high degree of secrecy in the workshops involved and must be kept in stock at the points of sale in an amount that significantly exceeds the number of tickets sold. Lots not sold must be destroyed after a limited period of validity.
- the invention overcomes these disadvantages by proposing pre-printed blank lots only then with the profit numbers or symbols indicating loss, if the corresponding one in the individual sales outlets Demand has arisen.
- this is only then possible if the application of the profit / loss indications and their simultaneous blurring by Apply a covering layer in one of the sales outlets upstream distribution point in one operation he follows.
- the invention proposes a combination of a digital Printing process for generating profit / loss indications with a subsequent thermal transfer printing, which create the covering and later to be rubbed off should, before.
- the two connected in series Printing processes are in a closed system carried out so that confidentiality is fully guaranteed can be.
- Such a system is installed in a distribution center and only completes lots when there is a need the connected points of sale is reported. Since the individual sales outlets in turn to the lottery center are connected, the head office has through networking the computer responsible for printing the lots Overview of the number of winning and losing tickets issued.
- a preferred embodiment of the method provides that a heat-sensitive recording material is used as the support and the display of profit or non-profit is generated in the designated fields in the thermal direct recording process; the rubbable film-like and opaque coating is applied to the heat-sensitive layer in a separate thermal transfer process.
- the embodiment of the method according to the invention according to which a heat-sensitive recording material is treated again with a thermal method for producing the film-like coating after the formation of a printed image, is surprising because the person skilled in the art would suspect that the action of heat from this thermal transfer method would cause blackening in the heat-sensitive recording layer.
- a heat-sensitive recording material can be used with or without an additional protective layer arranged on the surface.
- the illustration shows a so-called scratch card in a perspective view.
- This is composed of a base paper layer 1 or a corresponding layer of thin cardboard or plastic, on which in the example shown a thermosensitive layer 2 is printed, initially with the display of profit display fields 4, for example with the inscription "scratch card” and / or a decor.
- the display fields 4 are covered in the finished lot until sale with an opaque layer 3 to be rubbed off.
- It is a film-like coating layer which can be applied to the thermosensitive layer 2 using a separate thermal transfer process and is made of a material which can be rubbed off.
- This can consist of opaque pigmented wax, for example.
- the material of the cover layer 3 can consist of an opaque pigmented polymer with a suitable melting point to be determined by a person skilled in the art.
- the invention is expedient and uncomplicated and solves in optimally the task at the beginning.
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Die Erfindung betrifft Rubbellose in Form von Billetts aus
Rohpapier, Dünnpappe oder Kunststoff, die unter Freilassung
von Gewinn-Anzeige-feldern mit einer Beschriftung und/oder
Dekor ein- oder mehrfarbig bedruckt sind, wobei in den Anzeigefeldern
durch nachträgliche Einwirkung Schriftzeichen,
Ziffern und/oder Symbole zur Anzeige von Gewinn oder Verlust
in Erscheinung bringbar und diese mit einer abreibbaren
oder abrubbelbaren Schicht bis zum Verkauf unsichtbar
abgedeckt sind.
Solche Rubbellose müssen zwangsläufig unter hoher Geheimhaltung
in beteiligten Werkstätten hergestellt und in einer
Menge, welche die Menge der verkauften Lose wesentlich
übersteigt, bei den Verkaufsstellen auf Vorrat gehalten
werden. Nicht verkaufte Lose müssen nach Ablauf einer begrenzten
Gültigkeitsdauer zwangsläufig vernichtet werden.The invention relates to scratch cards in the form of tickets made of raw paper, thin cardboard or plastic, which are printed in one or more colors with a lettering and / or decor, leaving profit-display fields free, characters, numbers and / or or symbols for the display of profit or loss and these are covered invisibly with an abrasion or rub off layer until they are sold.
Such scratch cards must inevitably be manufactured in a high degree of secrecy in the workshops involved and must be kept in stock at the points of sale in an amount that significantly exceeds the number of tickets sold. Lots not sold must be destroyed after a limited period of validity.
Die Erfindung überwindet diese Nachteile, indem sie vorschlägt, vorgedruckte Blankolose erst dann mit den Gewinn bzw. Verlust anzeigenden Zahlen oder Symbolen zu versehen, wenn in den einzelnen Verkaufsstellen dafür auch der entsprechende Bedarf entstanden ist. Dies ist natürlich nur dann möglich, wenn das Aufbringen der Gewinn-/ Verlustindikationen sowie deren gleichzeitige Unkenntlichmachung durch Aufbringen einer deckenden Schicht in einer der Verkaufsstellen vorgeschalteten Verteilerstelle in einem Arbeitsgang erfolgt.The invention overcomes these disadvantages by proposing pre-printed blank lots only then with the profit numbers or symbols indicating loss, if the corresponding one in the individual sales outlets Demand has arisen. Of course this is only then possible if the application of the profit / loss indications and their simultaneous blurring by Apply a covering layer in one of the sales outlets upstream distribution point in one operation he follows.
Dafür schlägt die Erfindung eine Kombination eines digitalen Druckverfahrens zur Erzeugung der Gewinn-/Verlustindikationen mit einem darauffolgenden Thermotransferdruck, der die abdeckende und später abzurubbelnde Schicht erzeugen soll, vor. Die beiden direkt hintereinander geschalteten Druckverfahren werden in einem geschlossenen System durchgeführt, so daß die Geheimhaltung vollständig gewährleistet werden kann.The invention proposes a combination of a digital Printing process for generating profit / loss indications with a subsequent thermal transfer printing, which create the covering and later to be rubbed off should, before. The two connected in series Printing processes are in a closed system carried out so that confidentiality is fully guaranteed can be.
Ein solches System wird in einer Verteilerstelle installiert und stellt Lose erst dann fertig, wenn ein Bedarf aus den angeschlossenen Verkaufsstellen gemeldet wird. Da die einzelnen Verkaufsstellen wiederum an die Lotteriezentrale angeschlossen sind, hat die Zentrale durch die Vernetzung der für den Druck der Lose zuständigen Computer einen direkten Überblick über die Anzahl der herausgegebenen Gewinn- und Verlustlose.Such a system is installed in a distribution center and only completes lots when there is a need the connected points of sale is reported. Since the individual sales outlets in turn to the lottery center are connected, the head office has through networking the computer responsible for printing the lots Overview of the number of winning and losing tickets issued.
Dadurch, daß die Lose aus vorhandenen Blankoformularen, die nicht an eine Gültigkeitsdauer gebunden sind, erst dann fertiggestellt werden, wenn ein Bedarf vorliegt, bleibt der Anteil unverkaufter Lose sehr gering, das heißt, die bei der bisherigen Vorgehensweise gegebenen hohen Ausschußquoten werden drastisch gesenkt.The fact that the lots from existing blank forms, the are not bound by a period of validity until then to be completed, if there is a need remains Proportion of unsold lots very low, that is, that at the high rate of rejects given the previous procedure are drastically lowered.
Das Verfahren zur Herstellung von Rubbellosen ist dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
- aus einem flächigen Material aus Papier, Dünnpappe oder Kunststoff, vorzugsweise ein Normalpapier, ein wärmeempfindliches Aufzeichnungsmaterial, oder ein wärmeempfindliches Aufzeichnungsmaterial mit einer an der Oberfläche angeordneten zusätzlichen Schutzschicht,
- einzelne Billetts ausgestanzt und mit einer Beschriftung und/oder Dekor sowie mit Kennzeichnungsfeldern für das Losergebnis als Blanko-Lose bedruckt, und
- eine vorgegebene Teilmenge dieser Blanko-Lose einer Verteilerstelle angeliefert und in dieser im Durchlauf durch eine unzugänglich verschlossene Vorrichtung zuerst in einem digitalen Druckverfahren nach Maßgabe eines Computerprogramms in den dafür vorgesehenen Kennzeichnungsfeldern mit Gewinn- bzw. Verlustanzeige signiert und unmittelbar folgend die Felder mit dem undurchsichtigen filmartigen Überzug versehen und die damit verkaufsfähig gemachten Lose an Verkaufsstellen ausgeliefert werden.
- a flat material made of paper, thin cardboard or plastic, preferably a normal paper, a heat-sensitive recording material, or a heat-sensitive recording material with an additional protective layer arranged on the surface,
- individual tickets punched out and printed with a lettering and / or decor and with labeling fields for the lot result as blank lots, and
- a predetermined subset of these blank lots is delivered to a distribution point and is first signed in a pass through an inaccessible locked device in a digital printing process in accordance with a computer program in the designated identification fields with profit or loss display and immediately following the fields with the opaque film-like Covered and the lots made thereby salable are delivered to points of sale.
Die durch dieses Thermotransferverfahren aufgebrachte undurchsichtige Schicht kann wesentlich dünner und damit kostengünstiger hergestellt werden als dies mit herkömmlichen Verfahren möglich ist.The opaque applied by this thermal transfer process Layer can be much thinner and therefore less expensive be produced than with conventional ones Procedure is possible.
Eine bevorzugte Ausführung des Verfahrens sieht vor, daß
als Träger ein wärmeempfindliches Aufzeichnungsmaterial
verwendet wird und die Anzeige von Gewinn- oder Nichtgewinn
in den dazu vorgesehenen Kennzeichnungsfeldern im Thermodirektaufzeichnungsverfahren
erzeugt wird; der rubbelbare
filmartige sowie undurchsichtige Überzug wird in einem separaten
Thermotransferverfahren auf die wärmeempfindliche
Schicht aufgebracht.
Die erfindungsgemäße Ausgestaltung des Verfahrens, wonach
ein wärmeempfindliches Aufzeichnungsmaterial nach Erzeugung
eines Druckbildes nochmals mit einem thermischen Verfahren
zur Erzeugung des filmartigen Überzugs behandelt wird, ist
überraschend, weil der Fachmann vermuten würde, daß die
Wärmeeinwirkung dieses Thermotransferverfahrens eine
Schwärzung in der wärmeempfindlichen Aufzeichnungsschicht
verursachen würde.
Überraschenderweise konnte jedoch festgestellt werden, daß
die Verwendung des Thermotransferverfahrens zur Herstellung
des filmartigen Überzugs keine Beeinträchtigung der durch
die Schwärzung der wärmeempfindlichen Aufzeichnungsschicht
erzeugten Zeichen ergibt. Dabei kann ein wärmeempfindliches
Aufzeichnungsmaterial mit oder ohne zusätzliche oberflächlich
angeordnete Schutzschicht verwendet werden. A preferred embodiment of the method provides that a heat-sensitive recording material is used as the support and the display of profit or non-profit is generated in the designated fields in the thermal direct recording process; the rubbable film-like and opaque coating is applied to the heat-sensitive layer in a separate thermal transfer process.
The embodiment of the method according to the invention, according to which a heat-sensitive recording material is treated again with a thermal method for producing the film-like coating after the formation of a printed image, is surprising because the person skilled in the art would suspect that the action of heat from this thermal transfer method would cause blackening in the heat-sensitive recording layer.
Surprisingly, however, it was found that the use of the thermal transfer process for the production of the film-like coating does not result in any impairment of the characters produced by the blackening of the heat-sensitive recording layer. A heat-sensitive recording material can be used with or without an additional protective layer arranged on the surface.
Weitere Einzelheiten, Merkmale und Vorteile der Erfindung
ergeben sich aus der nachstehenden Erläuterung eines in der
Zeichnung schematisch dargestellten Ausführungsbeispieles.
Die Darstellung zeigt ein sogenanntes Rubbellos in perspektivischer
Ansicht. Dieses setzt sich zusammen aus einer
Rohpapierschicht 1 bzw. einer entsprechenden Schicht aus
Dünnpappe oder Kunststoff, worauf im dargestellten Beispiel
eine thermosensitive Schicht 2, zunächst unter Freilassung
von Gewinn-Anzeigefeldern 4 z.B. mit einer Beschriftung
"Rubbellos" und/oder einem Dekor aufgedruckt ist. Die Anzeigefelder
4 sind beim fertigen Los bis zum Verkauf mit
einer abzurubbelnden undurchsichtigen Schicht 3 abgedeckt.
Es handelt es sich um eine mit einem separaten Thermotransferverfahren
auf die thermosensitive Schicht 2 aufbringbare,
filmartige Überzugsschicht aus einem rubbelbaren Material.
Diese kann beispielsweise aus undurchsichtig pigmentiertem
Wachs bestehen.
Weiterhin kann das Material der Abdeckschicht 3 aus einem
vom Fachmann zu bestimmenden undurchsichtig pigmentierten
Polymer mit einem geeigneten Schmelzpunkt bestehen.Further details, features and advantages of the invention result from the following explanation of an exemplary embodiment shown schematically in the drawing.
The illustration shows a so-called scratch card in a perspective view. This is composed of a
It is a film-like coating layer which can be applied to the
This can consist of opaque pigmented wax, for example.
Furthermore, the material of the
Die Erfindung ist zweckmäßig und unkompliziert und löst in optimaler Weise die eingangs gestellt Aufgabe.The invention is expedient and uncomplicated and solves in optimally the task at the beginning.
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