Card reader apparatus with replacable card guide

Details Card reader apparatus with replacable card guide Card reader apparatus with replacable card guide

1990-11-23

1992-11-17

Pitts, Harold

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235449, 235482, G06K 1306, G06K 1324

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051645769

ABSTRACT:
A point of sale terminal having a reader assembly for reading a data card having data stored on at least one data track thereon. The terminal includes a housing defining a guide slot location for the data carrier and a transducer for detecting data stored on the data track. A removable guide element is mounted to the housing at the data carrier slot location. This guide element has at least a bottom wall portion defining a bottom guide surface of a guide for the data card and one major side wall portion defining one side guide surface of a guide slot. An access window is formed in the major side wall portion. A mounting arrangement mounts the transducer at a prearranged location within the access window for accurate detection of data stored on the data track as the data card is manually swiped through the guide slot.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4585929 (1986-04-01), Brown et al.
patent: 4788420 (1988-11-01), Chang et al.
patent: 4795891 (1989-01-01), Morigaki

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