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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 1982
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Donald A Sloan, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Carroll G Perkins, Pilot Mountain, NC (US);
Assignee:
Consolidated Foods Corporation, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235458 ; 235474 ; 235475 ;
Abstract
A lightweight, portable apparatus for rapidly reading continuously and sequentially a plurality of ticket records having specific data encoded thereon as the tickets are removed individually from a supply magazine and conveyed along a prescribed path by a ticket feed assembly, an escapement assembly and a transport drive wheel to a ticket data sensing station. Data encoded on each advancing ticket is read in timed relation with displacement of a ticket advancing through the apparatus by control means and transmitted to equipment for storing and/or reproducing of the data in another form.