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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert Lundahl, Frederick, MD (US);
Mark Klemick, Columbia, MD (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Technology & Research Corp., Burtonsville, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10 ;
Abstract
A conveyor with narrow apertures enables barcode scanning devices to be mounted under the conveying surface so they may scan and read data from tags and labels located on the bottom surface of material being transported by the conveyor. Multiple apertures and scanning devices are oriented at different angles to each other to assure that at least one of the scanning devices has an optimal orientation to reliably read barcodes or labels which may be randomly oriented on the conveying surface.