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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:
Mar. 08, 1977
Filed:
Aug. 06, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
William Edward Wolf, Newark, DE (US);
Assignee:
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
250563 ; 2502 / ; 356200 ;
Abstract
An electro-optical scanner for detecting variations in a web and generating output signals representative of the variations is provided with discriminator logic and alarm circuitry that indicates when the output signals shift from a value exceeding a predetermined positive (negative) threshold value to a value beyond a predetermined negative (positive) threshold value within a prescribed minimum period of time as an occurrence of an abrupt change in web density and processing circuitry for determining and indicating when the number of such occurrences per unit time exceeds a threshold or predetermined number.