Hand Held Products, Inc.

Joseph B Sakal

George S Smith, Ii

William H Havens

Timothy R Fitch

Timothy P Meier

Melvin D McCall

Charles Paul Barber

David Sperduti

Garrison Gomez

Paul J Klock

James D Gresko

Donna Marie Fletcher

Eric C Coleman

James F O'Donnell

James Rosetti

Thomas Arthur Siegler

David Mangicaro

Paul Higgins

Russ A Meseroll

An ergonomically designed transactional terminal according to the invention in one embodiment includes a housing having a top portion partially defined by a touch screen, a base, and an enlarged head portion extending forwardly from the base to define a lip. An insert style card reader having horizontally oriented feed slot opening toward the front of the housing is disposed in the lip of the housing. The feed slot may be angled downward slightly to reduce build up in the slot and to encourage a sweeping action by a card during card removal. The touch screen may be angled downward in coplanar relationship with the feed slot to improve visibility of the touch screen and to improve simultaneous observation of touch screen and card indicia.

Ergonomically designed multifunctional transaction terminal

There is described a method and apparatus for processing a card. A card that is processed can have a corresponding card holder. In one embodiment, a card reader can be provided for reading information of a card. A card reader in one embodiment can be configured to sense a level of degradation of a card. A card reader in one embodiment can be in communication with a remote processor system.

Identification card reader

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Skaneateles, NY, United States of America

Joseph B Sakal