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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:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
David A. Michael, Sunbury, PA (US);
Larry W. Ditty, Sunbury, PA (US);
Assignee:
elk Technologies, Sunbury, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B 1/00 ; A47L 2/500 ; B32B 3/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B 1/00 ; A47L 2/500 ; B32B 3/10 ;
Abstract
A cleaning card for cleaning the magnetic heads of magnetic card readers is disclosed. As the card is pushed through the reader, the magnetic head protrudes through the card and then as the card continues to move the sides of the hole in the card scrub both sides of the head effectively removing dirt.