Dispensing apparatus for dispensing card-shaped data carriers
AssigneeScheidt & Bachmann USA, Inc.
InventorNorbert Miller
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Abstract
A dispensing apparatus for dispensing card-shaped data carriers, includes at least one coding unit configured to encode a data carrier with at least one data set, and at least one detection unit configured to detect the functionality of the encoded data carrier. The dispensing apparatus further includes at least one sorting unit having at least one drive means configured to forward the data carrier, wherein the drive means is configured such that the data carrier is forwarded with a first speed upon detection of an error-free data carrier, and the data carrier is forwarded with a second speed upon detection of a defective data carrier, the first speed being different from the second speed.
Claims11
A dispensing apparatus for dispensing card-shaped data carriers, comprising:
- at least one coding unit configured to encode a data carrier with at least one data set;
- at least one detection unit configured to detect the functionality of the encoded data carrier;
- and
- at least one sorting unit, including at least one drive means configured to forward the data carrier along a transport path to an output,
- wherein the drive means is configured such that the data carrier is forwarded along the transport path with a first speed to the output upon detection of an error-free data carrier, and
- wherein the drive means is configured such that the data carrier is forwarded along the transport path with a second speed to the output upon detection of a defective data carrier, and
- wherein the first speed is different from the second speed.
A method for operating a dispensing apparatus, comprising:
- providing a plurality of card-shaped data carriers;
- encoding each of the provided data carriers with at least one data set;
- detecting the functionality of each of the encoded data carriers;
- upon detection of an error-free data carrier, forwarding the error-free data carrier along a transport path at a first speed to an output;
- and
- upon detection of a defective data carrier, forwarding the defective data carrier along the transport path at a second speed to the output, wherein the first speed is different from the second speed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.