Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Article handling
Patent
1997-07-18
2000-11-14
Ellis, Christopher P.
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Article handling
700224, 700223, 700226, G06F 1520
Patent
active
061482498
ABSTRACT:
Machine readable marks are applied to articles, particularly primal cuts of meat, preferably before removal from a carcass. They can thus be monitored during progress and data can be fed back to a central computer which may compute a value for the carcass. A preferred mark is a 3.times.3 matrix having two columns of colored dots selected from colors representing 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8; and a modifying column providing binary information indicating that 0 or 1 should be added to the values of adjacent colored dots.
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Butler Michael E.
Ellis Christopher P.
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