Document processing transport
AssigneeRecognition Equipment Incorporated
InventorsCharles T. Kao, James O. Lafevers, John F. Blanton, James R. Ingram, Jr.
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Abstract
A document transport for data entry and document processing for such documents as checks or credit card slips with transport means for entering the documents into a feed station, moving the documents past two read stations, wait in a hold station then return through a print station and a validator station with provision for entering data into the system and printing upon the document. The transport moves document in one direction and is reversed and moves documents in a second direction in the processing steps prior to depositing the document into a stack station.
Claims13
A document processing transport for performing a series of operations on each document as it is passed through the transport comprising:
- means for moving the document in one direction through the transport;
- means for indexing the document through a series of processing stations, first and second processing stations for reading information from the document, means for reversing the direction of travel of the document, means for printing information on the document while traveling in the reversed direction, means in common with said second processing station to read and varify the information printed on the document and means for diverting the document out of the reversed travel path of the document into a document pocket.
A document processing transport comprising;
- a document feed station, means for moving the document in first and second directions along a document path, first and second reading means positioned along said document path for reading information while said document is moving in said first direction, printing means for printing information on said document when it is moving in said second direction, and reading means for reading the information printed on said document.
A document processing system including a document processing transport, a keyboard and a display, said transport comprising:
- a document feed station, a reversable document transport path, a plurality of processing stations and a stacker pocket, and transport path moving the documents in a first direction and then a reversed direction to each of said plurality of processing stations after which the document is diverted into the stacker pocket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.