Recorders – Combined with autographic apparatus
Patent
1986-08-27
1989-02-28
Shaw, Clifford C.
Recorders
Combined with autographic apparatus
358 84, G01D 900
Patent
active
048090131
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a television contest-entering device for the tamperproof recording and storing of entries in television contests. Such a handy device can be mailed, for example, to all interested televiewers before the progam is broadcast, thus permitting these viewers to participate outside the television studio in a contest where the answers to questions asked in a quiz game, for example, are to be recorded with exact indication of the time at which they are recorded, and preserved in a tamperproof manner, the device then being returned by the contestant to the television station for judgment of the entries. The device in accordance with the invention, called Memorator, is characterized by a recording medium in the form of a paper tape which can be secured by a lock and which is combined with a synchronized time printer consisting of a computer, a quartz clock, a printing mechanism and a battery, the paper tape being accessible for the recording of the entries through a window over the paper tape; by a keybutton which can be depressed after the entries have been recorded on the paper tape to cause the clock time to be imprinted thereon and the paper tape to be advanced by means of a feed mechansim by a length corresponding to the area written on and into a section where the paper tape is secured by a lock; by a ratchet wheel with a check pawl which prevents backward motion of the feed mechansim after its forward motion; and by a safety lock which locks the cover, adapted to be flipped up, of the case of the recording medium.
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Shaw Clifford C.
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