摘要:
A card reader utilizing an array of magnetically-operable solid state switches for reading magnetically coded cards. Magnets are employed to provide magnetic fields of sufficient strengths from poles of specific polarity to trigger or actuate some or all of the solid state switches. An array or matrix of the magnetically-operable solid state switches are provided in combination with a magnet-carrying block having magnets disposed therein. In several embodiments the magnets are slidably mounted in the block and are adapted to be attracted or repelled by a properly coded card having magnetized spots arranged in a predetermined pattern therein. In two preferred embodiments the card reader is combined with a card-operable magnetic lock. In that embodiment some of the magnets in the magnet-carrying block function as locking elements or tumblers.
摘要:
A card having spots of paramagnetic material is inserted in a pocket in a card reader. At one side of the pocket opposite each of the spots is a magnet and at the other side is a reed switch. The magnetic material in the card acts as a shunt for the magnetic field of the magnet. In one embodiment it prevents that magnetic field from reaching the switch in sufficient strength to operate the switch. In another embodiment it increases the magnetic field to the switch by providing a paramagnetic path to the switch, with the switch being open in the absence of that path. In another embodiment it interferes with a repulsion between two magnets on opposite sides of the card so that the magnet on the side adjacent the switch moves toward the card and away from the switch to thereby open the switch contact.
摘要:
A reader particularly for cards that are embossed with bar coded information reads the information from the cards by scanning the underside of the card with feeler fingers which engage in the depressions of the underside of the code bars to advance switches to positions which decode the encoded information. A coding method in which the information is carried in the distance that a code bar is spaced along a scanning path is provided.
摘要:
Sequential operation of an automatic machine is controlled by an assembly of binary switches which are selectively operated by a selector member. Plunger operated microswitches may be used in conjunction with a selector member comprising a stiff apertured plate so that when the plate is pressed against an assembly of switches, it depresses the plungers except the ones located against the apertures and thus makes the selection. Leveroperated microswitches may alternatively be used in conjunction with a selector member having a profiled edge which is shaped to engage some levers and not others when it is brought into operational relationship with the switch array.
摘要:
Information, in the form of perforations carried by a record card, is gathered by a system which includes an information storage unit housed in proximity to, and for coaction with, a record reader, and a keyboard entry device. The information storage unit magnetically records on tape the information transmitted to it from either the reader or the keyboard. The reader, though the use of star wheels, reads the perforated data one column at a time and transmits same through appropriate logic to the stored unit. The star wheels are mounted in cantilever fashion on first conductive spring like elements which urge the wheels into coaction with the record and the perforations carried thereby. When a star wheel encounters a perforation its spring like element moves into contact with a second conductive element to close a circuit. Said second conductive element is formed to yield when contacted by said first element to insure proper seating of the star wheel in the perforation and subsequent coaction thereof with other perforations. The star wheels are mounted in a stationary manner; while the record, after being laid upon a receiving bed, is moved in an arcuate path and in such a manner that it is locked in position, sensed by the star wheels, returned to its initial position, and subsequently ejected from the reader. If the data sensed is unacceptable to the logic the record remains on the reading bed as an indication thereof. The operator, thereafter can enter the data through the intermediary of the keyboard entry device.
摘要:
A card initiated actuator comprising a combination of switches preset at either closed or open position for causing operation of a selected actuator when switch positions are reversed by projections on a card acting on respective moving pin tumblers. A switch arm at the exit end of a card slot is tripped by pushing a card against it thereby to start an electric motor which rotates a pair of rollers between which the card is thereby drawn. A second pair of rollers receive the card from the first pair of rollers and mutilate it so that it cannot again be used, before passing it to a collecting box.