Record card feeding apparatus
CA 1081139 A · Owner: Oce-Industries · Inventors: Carpentier, John H.; Kufrin, Fred W.
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An apparatus for feeding record cards to and from a utilization station in a record card utilization machine comprises a support housing for a card origination hopper and a card collection hopper which is mounted, below the origination hopper. A transfer carriage is mounted for reciprocal pivoted movement from a first position where it receives a card from the origination hopper, to a second position at the utilization station where the card is utilized, and back to the same first position where it returns the card to the collection hopper. A card feeding and returning mechanism is associated with the hoppers to feed cards to and remove cards from the carriage at different times in the …
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- Granted July 8, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 8, 1997.
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