A point of sale system designed to read information from a consumer's check, credit card, or manual input with a subsequent debiting of a consumer's account and crediting merchant's account for the goods or services provided. Point of sale terminals are designed to accept a form of credit card with a consumer's bank account information encoded thereon or in the alternative to read the MICR number from a consumer's check in order to verify that a consumer has an appropriate balance to conduct the...

A transaction printer includes the MICR encoding of indicia at a precise location called the amount field. In order to accomplish this, an optical sensor is provided in a check processing machine at a point-of-sale to detect the edge of the check and stage it at a known location from the thermal, MICR print head. A clutch mechanism is used to engage the print head with a platen and to engage a read head with the check, so that indicia can be sequentially imprinted and read within the check proce...

The object of this invention is to produce, by means of a blower device, consisting of a common blower motor installed into a housing base and a hollow tube mast with a special positioned air slot and flag stick also in a related special position to the air slot, that will effectively and consistently provide a means of delivering an air flow across the face of a cloth flag so it will fly in a full extended flutter motion within a still indoor environment so that a advertising message on the fla...

The invention features a point of sale display for holding a brandsign. A first member (12) thereof has first and second planar portions (12a, 12c), a non-planar portion (12b) arranged between the first and second planar portions (12a, 12c), a terminating edge (12d) on one end of the second planar portion (12c), and an inner contacting surface (12e) extending along the first and second planar portion (12a, 12c) and the non-planar portion (12b). A second member (14) thereof has a first and second...

In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a dancing figure that includes a body defined by a torso, a head, and a pair of arms, and a pair of legs pivotally attached to the torso at a hip region. Each leg includes at least an upper leg section pivotally attached to a lower leg section at a knee region. Also included therewith is a pair of oversized feet adapted to provide support such that the figure is free-standing. The pair of oversized feet is separately and pivotally attac...

The present invention provides a system for facilitating the sale and shipment of cores. The system includes a host processor that stores and processes data supplied by a plurality of vendors. The data includes the type quantity and asking price of cores the vendors have available for sale. The data is transferred from the host processor over a data link to a remote terminal for display to a purchaser of cores. An order is communicated from the purchaser to the host computer. The order includes ...

A point of sale system designed to read information from a consumer's check, credit card, or manual input with a subsequent debiting of a consumer's account and crediting merchant's account for the goods or services provided. Point of sale terminals are designed to accept a form of credit card with a consumer's bank account information encoded thereon or in the alternative to read the MICR number from a consumer's check in order to verify that a consumer has an appropriate balance to conduct the...

To provide for reliable seating of articles or packages (P) such as lipsticks, small bottles, and the like, and feed of the articles along an inclined chute (15), the chute is positioned at an angle of about 35.degree. and has a forward horizontal or flat portion (19) of such dimension that the bottom wall of the package or article of the foremost package (P1) fits on the flat portion. The articles or packages are maintained in feeding sliding engagement by a roller (18) rolling on the chute, ri...

Sale computing and display apparatus for gasoline-dispensing equipment utilizing a rotatable shaft for metering the amount of gasoline dispensed and a unit price adjusting mechanism cooperating with the rotatable shaft for providing the sale price of gasoline being dispensed as a function of the rotation of the shaft; a pulser responsive to the unit price adjusting mechanism and the rotations of the shaft for providing pulses representative at least of the sale price of the gasoline being dispen...

A multi-track tape player having at least one program or commercial message recorded on each of a plurality of the tracks thereof is connected to a source of background music by a control system which, periodically, in response to a control signal from a timing mechanism, activates successive ones of the tracks of the tape player. As the commercial message or program commences, the background material is caused to fade out until the completion of the program, whereupon the background returns. A ...