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Totalizator
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Automatic Totalizator
Julius Australian Patent 15133/14 lodged 21 December 1914
The first race course to accept the Julius automatic totalizator was Ellerslie
in Auckland where it went into action one Saturday in 1913. It had its origin
in a mechanical voting machine which was rejected by the Western Australian
Government when Julius worked for the railways. In 1907, Julius moved to Sydney
and continued to refine then patent the product.
The automatic totalizator prints the tickets, sends the betting data to the
various pools, makes deductions for taxes and operating costs and instantaneously
adjusts the odds shown on public indicators. Preprinted and serially numbered
tickets were issued by hand to acknowledge bets, but, from there on, the machine
did everything else automatically.
The full specification for the patent illustrated has 12 pages and 17 figures.
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