Rotary data card scanning apparatus

Details Rotary data card scanning apparatus Rotary data card scanning apparatus

1991-05-09

1992-12-29

Pitts, Harold

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Coded record sensors

Feed mechanisms

235384, 235475, 235476, G06K 1300

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051754231

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for reading a data card which comprises a thin, flexible medium having leading and trailing edges and a data stripe formed thereon at a prearranged location and extending transverse to said leading and trailing edges. The apparatus comprises a card guide arrangement defining a cylindrical card guide path and an entrance slit for accepting said card into said guide path. A drive arrangement cooperatively associated with said card guide arrangement for driving said data card through said entrance slit and around said cylindrical card guide path. A transducer arrangement positioned at a prearranged location on said cylindrical card guide path for detecting data on said data stripe of a data card being driven around said cylindrical card guide path by said drive arrangement.

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