International Business Machines Corporation

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William E Mott

Iraj D Shakib

Jeffrey B Lyerly

Matthew G Yenik

David A Droge

Lance W Whitehead

Air pressure gauge mountable onto a valve stem while inflating/deflating a tire

A teller machine for drive up applications is disclosed. The machine has a safe with an access slot. The machine also has a user panel which has an opening that lies transverse to the slot. A document carrier is described which rotates documents around two different axes as it carries them between the slot and the opening to allow passage of the documents through both.

Drive up teller machine

A replaceable font module for a printer includes an interrogable storage containing information representing graphic patterns and is connected to cooperate with a printer upon insertion within a corresponding receptacle. The module and receptacle are configured to allow insertion without intense operator attention by virtue of a camming surface on the module that cooperates with a hook-like latch of the receptacle to provide an undulating but positive latching motion in response to a simple operator insertion motion. As a part of the latching motion, a wiping action to assure a high quality contact with conductor pads on the module that provide a transfer point for the communication path to the storage.

Font module for matrix printer

Apparatus for rapidly lining a container with a box-like array of discrete lining panels includes a panel-grasping mechanism maintaining a vacuum grip on the panels until the array is deposited in the container. A method for safely and rapidly operating the apparatus automatically in accordance with a prescribed program of interrelated steps is disclosed. The method provides for immediate interruption of the apparatus movements in event of a malfunction and after correction of the malfunction for resumption of apparatus movement from the point in the cycle at which the interruption occurred.

Method of and apparatus for rapidly lining containers

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Harrisburg, NC, United States of America

William E Mott