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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 1976
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
James R Small, Dayton, OH (US);
Robert C Meckstroth, Dayton, OH (US);
Assignee:
Hobart Corporation, Troy, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G01G / ; G01G / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235 / ; 177-3 ; 177-4 ; 235 / ; 235 / ; 23515133 ;
Abstract
A commodity identification key carrying apertures arranged in rows and columns for organization of commodity identification, parity checking, and clock control information, provision for manually controlled reading of the commodity identification information into storage, provision for repeatedly reading the commodity information out of storage and repeatedly checking the parity thereof, and provision for controlling the printing of a machine readable bar code representative of a commodity identification.