Programmable machine system
CA 1332630 C · Owner: Unilever Plc · Inventors: Moore, James Michael; Giles, Alan Frederick
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A programmable machine is provided with a programmed computer and a number of actuators, the operation of the latter being controlled by the computer in conformity with this computer program. The computer also includes an operating program which co-operates with a display device and a data input device for the input of instructions to the computer. The operating program responds to a sequence of the entered instructions displayed on the display device having a separate display field for each actuator or a group of actuators and enabling an operator to enter instructions with the data input device into each field to define the movement of the respective actuator and the relationship between …
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- Granted October 18, 1994. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 18, 2011.
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