US Patent: 5,594X
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| Mode for the Drawing of Lotteries
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Patentee:
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| D. Malcomb (exact or similar names) - New Orleans, Orleans Parish , LA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Jul. 30, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“For a Mode of Drawing Lotteries; D. Malcolm, New Orleans, July 30.
Patents have been obtained by Messrs. Yates and McIntyre, Mr. Cohen, and others, for modes of drawing lotteries by combinations of different kinds. Mr. Malcolm's plan differs from these in its enabling him to draw any number in the entire series, of which the blanks and prizes may consist, by putting a comparatively small number of tickets into his wheels. It is not thought necessary here to detail the particulars of the plan, but merely to give a general idea of it. There are to be three wheels; into two of them, numbers are put; into the third, the prizes, and from each of these wheels tickets are to be drawn simultaneously. Suppose the number 120 to be drawn from the first wheel, and the number 99, to be drawn from the second; these placed together, give the number 12,099, to which appertains the prize which was drawn at the same time with the numbers.
The claim is to the combining of numbers drawn from two, or more, wheels, in such a way, that by putting a comparatively small number of billets into the wheels, any one number upon the whole series of tickets of which the class consists, may actually be drawn against either of the prizes in the prize wheel.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 7, Oct. 1829 pg. 269
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