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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. 13, 1979
Filed:
Dec. 06, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
David M Otten, Newton, MA (US);
Assignee:
International Totalizing System, Newton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
194 / ; 194D / ;
Abstract
A totalizer for recording the income of a multiprice vending machine, the totalizer including a device to determine the value of the item selected, the fact that a sale was made, and a counter to total the value of all items selected. The totalizer preferably verifies the correctness of the value of the item selected to prevent erroneous counts and also preferably generates a coded output signal representing the price line of the vending machine providing information.