Card reader with means for unloading output hopper on the fly

Details Card reader with means for unloading output hopper on the fly Card reader with means for unloading output hopper on the fly

1976-06-08

1978-09-26

Kilgore, Robert M.

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Coded record sensors

Feed mechanisms

271218, G06K 1314, B65H 3112

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active

041173147

ABSTRACT:
A card reader having means for receiving cards and transporting them past a read station and into an output hopper, the output hopper being modified to embrace means whereby cards can be unloaded from the output hopper while the machine remains in operation and is feeding cards through the reader and into the output hopper. The primary feature of the embodiment for unloading on the fly is a solenoid-actuated lever mounted on top of the output hopper, having a lever head at one end which when actuated presses against the side of cards in the hopper and clamps at least some of the cards in the hopper between the lever head and a cooperating indentation formed in the opposite side of the hopper, whereby the clamped cards are held in place. A manually operable elevator contains a pressure switch located so that as the operator draws the elevator downward the solenoid is actuated and the cards between the elevator and the lever-clamped cards are freed for easy removal while the cards which are being read during the removal operation are accumulated above the clamped cards.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2588190 (1952-03-01), Wockenfuss
patent: 2824738 (1958-02-01), Buttner
patent: 2973142 (1961-02-01), Jenner
patent: 3362707 (1968-01-01), Lauren
patent: 3972524 (1976-08-01), Despot

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