Abstract:
DISCLOSED ARE METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE COMPOSITION OF A FLUID SUCH AS THE SOLVENT MIXTURE UTILIZED IN SOLVENT DEWAXING PROCESSES. A PREFERRED METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAID SOLVENT COMPOSITION INCLUDES THE STEPS OF GENERATING A FIRST SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF A TARGET VALUE OF THE CONCENTRATION OF THE WAX ANTI-SOLVENT COMPONENT OF THE SOLVENT MIXTURE, SEPARATING THE SOLVENT MIXTURE INTO TWO FRACTIONS, ONE OF WHICH IS RICHER AND THE OTHER POORER OF THE WAX ANTI-SOLVENT COMPONENT, COMBINING THE FRACTIONS TO RE-ESTABLISH THE SOLVENT MIXTURE, SENSING THE CONCENTRATION OF THE ANTI-SOLVENT COMPONENT IN THE RE-ESTABLISHED SOLVENT MIXTURE AND PROVIDING A SECOND SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE THEREOF, AND CONTROLLING THE AFOREMENTIONED COMBINING STEP IN RESPONSE TO THE FIRST AND SECOND SIGNALS IN A MANNER TENDING TO REDUCE THE DISPARITY BETWEEN THE CONCENTRATION SECOND SIGNAL AND THE TARGET VALUE FIRST SIGNAL, THEREBY TENDING TO ACHIEVE THE TARGET VALUE COMPOSITION OF THE RE-ESTABLISHES SOLVENT MIXTURE. A PREFERRED APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE COMPOSITION OF THE AFOREMENTIONED SOLVENT MIXTURE INCLUDES SIGNAL GENERATING MEANS FOR PROVIDING A FIRST SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED TARGET VALUE, MEANS INCLUDING A FRACTIONATOR FOR SEPARATING THE SOLVENTMIXTURE INTO THE AFOREMENTIONED FRACTIONS, MEANS INCLUDING A MIXING TANK WITH AUTOMATIC INLET FLOW CONTROL VALVES FOR COMBINING THE FRACTIONS TO RE-ESTABLISH THE SOLVENT MIXTURE, MEANS INCLUDING A PHOTOMETRIC ANALYZER FOR SENSING THE CONCENTRATION OF THE WAX ANTI-SOLVENT COMPONENT IN THE REESTABLISHED SOLVENT MIXTURE, AND MEANS INCLUDING A DUPLEX CONTROLLER RESPONSIVE TO THE FIRST AND SECOND SIGNALS FOR CONTROLLING THE MIXING TANK INLET VALVES IN A MANNER TENDING TO ACSHIEVE THE TARGET VALUE COMPOSITION OF THE REESTABLISHED SOLVENT MIXTURE.
Abstract:
A credit card bearing a plurality of embossed decimal digits identifying an account number is inserted in a novel card holder which ensures accurate optical alignment or registration for character recognition purposes. The holder and the credit card contained therein are illuminated and as the holder is moved past a lens each digit is optically read one at a time; i.e. light reflected from the face of the card is directed through the lens and to a mask having a unique pattern of holes therethrough. Photodetectors associated with the mask translate reflected light passing through the holes into electrical signals representative of the card''s account number. These signals are ultimately encoded in binary form and delivered to a comparator to determine whether the binary-coded account number corresponds to a like binary-coded number stored in a suitable storage means.
Abstract:
Methodology and apparatus for optically reading, or recognizing, numbers in coded form, on such articles as credit cards and the like. The article is made of an opaque substance with prepositioned, coded, translucent areas forming a pattern corresponding to a coded form of the card number.
Abstract:
Methodology and apparatus for representing many numbers in an ordered sequence of numbers by substitute numbers where each such substitute number consists of fewer digits than the number for which it has been substituted and storing and processing signals representative of all the numbers in the ordered sequence, including the substitute numbers.
Abstract:
Hereinafter disclosed is methodology and apparatus for optically reading, or recognizing, numbers on such articles such as credit cards and the like. According to one illustrative embodiment of the invention a credit card having an identifying number, or account number, consisting of a plurality of decimal digits is illuminated by a source of light. Reflected light from the face of the card is directed through a lens and projected on a mask which has a plurality of unique hole patterns therein. The light reflected from the digits on the card is considerably darker than the light reflected from other portions of the card. There is provided in the mask an individual pattern, or array, of holes for each digit''s reflected light. Each hole in each pattern of holes has associated therewith a photodetector. Hence, each pattern of holes has a corresponding pattern of photodetectors. For each of the decimal digits 0 through 9 on the card a unique pattern of illuminated and nonilluminated (or light and dark) photodetectors results. This unique pattern, or array, of light and dark photodetectors provides a unique set of signals which are representative of the particular decimal digit whose light has been reflected on the hole pattern in the mask. Ultimately, sets of such signals representing all the decimal digits are delivered to a comparator for the purpose of determining whether or not the number on the credit card corresponds to a like number stored in suitable storage means; said stored number also being delivered to the comparator.