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An automatic ticket handling machine AT adapted for use as a ticket vending station, presenting a display screen D, a telephone receiver-speaker unit TEL and a credit card reader unit CR, etc. Within machine AT is a sheet handling mechanism adapted to receive processed tickets (from a printer) in a

An automatic ticket handling machine AT adapted for use as a ticket vending station, presenting a display screen D, a telephone receiver-speaker unit TEL and a credit card reader unit CR, etc. Within machine AT is a sheet handling mechanism adapted to receive processed tickets (from a printer) in a “holding bin”secured within the machine which can either “dump”them or be shifted to present them to a user automatically when the user raises the access door of machine AT.

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An automatic ticket vending machine comprising: display means adapted to present human-readable messages to a customer; one or more ticket printing means arranged and adapted to automatically inscribe ticket-validating indicia on prescribed unit tickets and present these to a printer-output station

An automatic ticket vending machine comprising: display means adapted to present human-readable messages to a customer; one or more ticket printing means arranged and adapted to automatically inscribe ticket-validating indicia on prescribed unit tickets and present these to a printer-output station in response to “ticket order signals”t-o; customer input means arranged and adapted to supply “select signals”SS indicating events to be ticketed, said input means including customer select means and valid billing indicating means; automatic data processing means DP adapted to receive and store said select signals SS and to process them and responsively issue said ticket-order signals t-o along with associated display messages to said display means, whereby the customer may see, and verify, the associated print commands and ticketed events, price, etc.; selectably-accessible port means including closure means adapted to be manually translated by a customer upon machine command to allow access to a prescribed ticket-removal station within the machine; “discarded-ticket”storage means; ticket receiving pocket means linked to said closure means and disposed operatively adjacent said printer output station(s) and adapted to receive printed tickets there from said respective printer means and to transport these to said ticket-removal station; said ticket receiving means also being selectively operable to “dump”its contents into said “discard-ticket”storage means; said translating of the port closure means being arranged and adapted to so transport said pocket means and present the tickets said pocket means and present the tickets at the ticket-removal station.