MACHINE PROCESSED DATA CARD

• US 3,755,655 A
• Filed: 10/26/1971
• Issued: 08/28/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eugene G. Senecal
• Original Assignee: Eugene G. Senecal
• Inventors: Senecal, Eugene G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cook, Daryl W.
• Application Number:
  US05/192,372
• Time in Patent Office: 672 Days
• Field of Search: 235/61.12R,61.12N,61.12C,61.12M
• US Class Current: 235/487
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/063 the carrier being marginally punched or notched, e.g. having elongated slots

Abstract

A machine processed data card is provided with a manually removable section which when removed creates an aperture that can be read by a processing machine. The removable section may be connected to a peripheral pull tab and both the section and the tab are joined to the rest of the card along lines of weakening so that a person not having the normal facilities for imposing information on the data card can remove the tab and section manually to either create new data or to indicate that the data should be changed.

Claims

1. A machine processed data card having a data region in which information is recorded at specific stations in a coding matrix by the presence or absence of a machine readable character of predetermined size comprising:

a removable card section having substantially the same size as a machine readable character and in the data region of the card at one of the specified stations in the coding matrix, the removable section having one side part defined by lines of weakening and another side part without lines of weakening; and

a manual pull tab extending from the removable section in the coding matrix to the periphery of the data card, the tab being joined to the removable section along the side part without lines of weakening and having lines of weakening extending from the periphery of the data card to the side part defined by lines of weakening.

2. A macHine processed data card as defined in claim 1 wherein the removable section has a rectangular shape defined by lines of weakening along three sides, the fourth side being without a line of weakening;

and the pull tab is joined to the removable section along substantially the entire length of the fourth side.

3. A machine processed data card as defined in claim 2 wherein the dimension of the pull tab at the peripheral edge of the data card is larger than the fourth side of the rectangularly shape removable section.