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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:
Oct. 08, 1991
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas G Cannon, Loveland, CO (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364468 ; 364400 ; 364419 ; 364479 ; 364518 ;
Abstract
Apparatus for point of sale card manufacturing and vending includes an information storage and retrieval system for storing, referencing, and retrieving various social expression card designs from a database. A querying device queries the customer to input a series of special occasion parameters to define the field of social expression card desired, while a display device displays the various social expression card designs. A social expression card reproducing device manufactures the selected social expression card design, and a valuable medial acceptor accepts payments for the manufactured card. The functions and operations of the above components are controlled by a computer.