(19)
(11) EP 0 175 516 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
12.08.1987 Bulletin 1987/33

(43) Date of publication A2:
26.03.1986 Bulletin 1986/13

(21) Application number: 85306233

(22) Date of filing: 03.09.1985
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE FR GB IT LI LU NL SE

(30) Priority: 17.09.1984 AU 717884
24.12.1984 AU 871484

(71) Applicant: Sillars, Ian Malin
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(72) Inventor:
  • Sillars, Ian Malin
     ()

   


(54) Apparatus for printing quasi random number tables


(57) Apparatus for printing quasi random number tables of the type used for games of chance such as bingo, comprising a flexographic printing press having a central drum (1) and a plurality of printing cylinders (2) arranged to print onto material fed into the press at (3) and exiting at (4). Some of the cylinders (5), (7) and (9) have different circumferences, each being a multiple of a basic pitch value, and are arranged to print various rows or columns of numbers or other indicia in a basic matrix or table such that the combination of numbers in each table varies in a quasi random manner over large number of repeats.







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