Wea Manufacturing, Inc.

Scott Smith

Anthony E Pietrzykoski

Floyd Goss

Apparatus for counting compact discs stacked on a spindle with outer portions of adjacent discs normally separated by gaps formed by central bosses of the discs in which the stack is moved vertically through the space between transmitting optics which produce a pair of vertically spaced beams having a space therebetween equal to the distance between a pair of adjacent gaps of the stack and receiving optics including a detector which produces pulses in response to radiation from said beams which transverse the gaps. The time between a pair of successive pulses is measured and the second pulse of the pair is counted as two pulses when the measured time exceeds a predetermined time. The apparatus is arranged to operate with either of two types of spindles.

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Scranton, PA, United States of America

Scott Smith