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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 1977
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1975
John M Alden, Needham, MA (US);
George C Williams, South Easton, MA (US);
Alden Research Foundation, Westboro, MA (US);
Abstract
A graphic record such as a bank signature card with a signature portion of limited area is registered by a framing clip on a carriage moveable under a photoelectric facsimile line scanner. The carriage is manually moved to an inner, start-of-scan position where it is arrested by a stop and a motor drives it back to its initial outer position past the scanner. The stop is spaced with respect to the carriage the same dimension as the selected signature portion of the card so that only the signature is scanned in a minimum of time. The stop is adjustable out of the carriage path so that the card or other graphic record can be scanned beyond the selected signature portion.