Reusable ticket processing apparatus and ticket regenerating apparatus
US5854477A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 6, 1997 |
| Grant date | Dec 29, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 6, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07B11/00
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A ticket processing apparatus for reusable tickets, having a thermal print portion capable of repeatedly printing by heating at a predetermined write temperature and deleting the printed characters and the like by heating at a deletion temperature, and also capable of setting information about the number of printing times, wherein a control unit 23 causes a magnetic read head 10 to read reservation information and information about the number of printing done from a magnetic recording stripe 1b of a reservation airline ticket 1, and also causes a thermal head 8 to heat a thermal print portion 1a of the reservation airline ticket 1 at a deletion temperature to delete printed reservation information of the thermal print portion 1a, and when the number of times printing done of the reservation airline ticket 1 is less than a preset value, causes the thermal head 8 to print real-ticket information on the thermal print portion 1a and also causes information about the number of printing done added with "1" to be written on the magnetic stripe 1b, and if the reservation airline ticket 1 is not reusable, causes a stored boarding ticket 15 to be paid out from a ticket storage 3, and causes …
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