INFORMATION PRINTING AND STORAGE SYSTEM

• US 3,739,719 A
• Filed: 03/08/1971
• Issued: 06/19/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John T. Potter
• Original Assignee: John T. Potter
• Inventors: Potter, John T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Penn, William B.
• Application Number:
  US05/122,212
• Time in Patent Office: 834 Days
• Field of Search: 101/93C,111,90,399 197/1R,172
• US Class Current: 101/93.14
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/50 Mechanisms producing characters by printing and also producing a record by other means , e.g. printer combined with RFID writer
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/51 the printed and recorded information being identical; using type elements with code-generating means
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 5/02 the verifying forming a part of the marking action

Abstract

An information printing and storage system in which a printer prints alphanumeric characters and a self-clocking code pattern on paper or card stock. A transducer scanning the printed lines senses the code pattern and provides an electrical output signal representative of the information imprinted.

Claims

1. A printer comprising means to print alphanumeric characters in selected combinations and sequences, and means to print adjacent to each printed character a code pattern representing such character, the code patterns each comprising a plurality of bit positions and representing the adjacent character by the combination of presences and absences of bits in said bit positions, said bit positions occupying the space above and below the character represented thereby, each of said patterns comprising a plurality of pairs of bit positions, each pair of bit positions comprising a bit position above said character and a bit position below said character, said patterns being selected so that each of said pairs of bit positions contains at least one bit.

2. A printer as recited in claim 1 wherein said means to print a code pattern prints said code patterns in magnetic material.

3. A printer, as recited in claim 1, wherein said printer prints alphanumeric characters in selected combinations and sequences with spaces between said combinations, and said code pattern printing means includes means to print adjacent to spaces between combinations of said characters a code pattern representing the presence of spaces.

4. A printer as recited in claim 3 wherein said means to print said code pattern comprises means to print said bits in magnetic material.