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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1976
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1975
Richard C Loshbough, Temperance, MI (US);
Reliance Electric Company, Pepper Pike, OH (US);
Abstract
Improved electronic scale system for weighing, computing a value and printing a label showing the weight, price per unit weight and the computed value for each of a plurality of successive articles. An integrated circuit microcomputer is periodically supplied with the article weight from a load cell scale and is supplied with the price per unit weight either from a manual keyboard or automatically from a commodity plate in a label printer. After the system corrects for scale error, checks for scale no motion, compensates for any tare weight and checks various interlocks, the microcomputer computes an article value. A no motion signal is generated by the microcomputer when a predetermined number of successive weight measurements deviate from one another by no more than a predetermined small fractional weight less than the least significant weight digit used by the microcomputer in computing an article value. After the above operations are performed, the microcomputer causes a printer to print an article label bearing the corrected weight, the price per unit weight and the computed value.