Improvements are provided in an apparatus for transporting a vertically oriented record card carrying a magnetic stripe across a transducer head for recording and playback functions. The improvement is in the form of a chassis system for mounting mechanical and electrical components of the card transport apparatus which can be readily molded in a single operation. The chassis is a unitary structure which includes a deck joined to a battery compartment. An integral upstanding flange on the deck faces a wall of the battery compartment to define a card receiving groove therebetween with the floor of the groove formed by the upper surface of the deck. Openings are provided in the battery compartment side wall at the groove for receiving a capstan to drive the record cards through the groove and for receiving a switch member which controls the capstan motor responsive to the presence of a card in proper position in the groove. The upper surface of the deck has an aligned pair of bearing blocks for receiving a shaft at axially spaced positions. Each bearing block is provided with an associated pair of opposing ears defining a snap receiver for receiving and retaining the shaft within the bearing block. The lower surface of the deck has a plurality of ribs which are adapted to radially engage the base of a post to secure the post in an upright position relative to the lower surface. Arm members also extend from the lower surface of the deck and have opposing projecting fingers for engaging and holding a circuit board. Further, a pair of spaced slide brackets are provided for receiving a slide member for longitudinally sliding movement parallel to the deck.
When constructing an electrical or electronic device or mechanical device such as a tape recorder, the framework therefore must be provided with various projections for installing various components to be contained therein, or means such as spring means for actuating the mechanism incorporated thereon must be previously provided on the framework. The present disclosure relates to those projections made of synthetic resin which can be integrally formed on a metallic plate in the step of molding and also to those molded projections which may not deform their configuration by the shrinking force of the synthetic resin when molded integrally with the plate to form the framework.
A document reader for reading manually fed edge coded documents, comprising a first component including a side wall, a second component orthogonally positioned with respect to the first component and having a second sidewall, the first and second sidewalls positioned adjacent one another so as to form a document receiving slot therebetween, the first sidewall containing an opening, a drive means, the drive means positioned within the first component and adapted to project through the first sidewall opening and substantially across the slot, the second sidewall including an opening, reading means contained within the second component, the reading means including a light source, means for directing light from the source through the second wall opening to the document, means responsive to light reflected from the document for converting the reflected light to digital data, control means coupled to the drive means, sensing means positioned proximate to the slot for sensing the precise location of the document, the sensing means coupled to the control means and responsive to the sensed document for controlling the drive of the document past the first and second openings.
A system for accurately controlling the position of documents as they are throughputted along a straight line path for purposes of MICR writing and reading thereon. Accurate control of document position along a linear path is obtained by minimizing speed variations of a throughputted document, by maintaining a throughputted document in good registration, and by holding closely proximate the throughputted document to the read or write head.
A card reader is provided which includes backup means for urging a coded region of a magnetic card against a transducer in a proper orientation and with a proper pressure. The backup means is disposed opposite to the transducer on the other side of a card guide slot, and includes a ball head having a spherical surface which is normally biased by a spring to its operative position extending into the guide slot in which the gap defined between the transducer and the ball head is less than the thickness of a card. As the card is moved through the guide slot, the ball head is moved by the card away from the transducer against the resilience of the spring, but provides a single point backup of the card against the transducer before such movement in the opposite direction occurs.
