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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:
Sep. 13, 1977
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1976
Ray L Lawter, Zanesville, OH (US);
Kenneth L Shooter, Senecaville, OH (US);
David C Wills, Cambridge, OH (US);
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed a low cost manually-operated compact card reader for reading magnetically or similarly encoded record cards or the like, the reader including a guide support assembly for guiding and supporting a manually inserted card, a carriage slidably mounted on the support assembly and engaged by the inserted card for movement thereby to an actuated position, an energy storing drive member secured to the carriage and operated by the movement of the carriage to said actuated position to return the carriage and the card past a reading member, and a velocity limiting device including a rotating member secured to the carriage for limiting the return movement of the carriage and the card to a constant velocity past the reading member.