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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 1977
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1975
William B Templeton, Howell, MI (US);
Burroughs Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A document encoding system transmits an incoming document at a high transport speed. When the document is received at an encoding station it is first stopped and registered and then retransmitted for encoding at a relatively low speed, the exact value being dependent on whether MICR or OCR encoding is used. After characters are encoded on the document the trailing edge is detected and the document is caused to accelerate to the high transport speed where it is transmitted for further processing. In a second alternative embodiment, information relating to character field positions is used to transmit the document at the relatively low speed when encoding and at a heightened speed when otherwise in the encoding station but not encoding. In a third alternative embodiment, the document is received by the encoding station on the fly at the high transport speed. It is advanced at that speed until decelerated to the relatively low speed at the first encoding position. When an end-of-encode signal is given the document is accelerated to the high transport speed and exits the station.