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AssigneeCompagnie Generale d'Automatisme
InventorsMichel Jacoub, Gerard Nourigat
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The invention relates to magnetic recording. A method of superposing a modifiable magnetic code on a fixed bar code magnetizes the bars in two different directions by means of a write head. There is the provision for synchronising the application of write signals to the write head with the passage of the bars of the bar code and the system may include a bar code reading head which reads a code moved by a conveyor belt and which causes an image of the bar code to be stored in a shift register with each bar and each space of the bar code being represented by several successive 1's or 0's. The write head then includes a read winding which triggers (via) reading of the image, and the image is gated into a code generator that writes when an image bar is present thereby writing magnetically onto the real bars of the bar code.
A method of coding comprising the step of superposing a modifiable magnetic code on a fixed code consituted by a succession of magnetized bars separated from one another by spaces, wherein said step of superposing a modifiable magnetic code on a fixed code comprises the step of magnetizing the bars in two different directions by a write head.
Apparatus for superposing a modifiable magnetic code on a fixed bar code constituted by a succession of magnetized bars separated from one another by spaces, comprising the step of magnetizing the bars in two different directions by a write head, said apparatus comprising first and second magnetic heads, means for causing relative movement of the bar code supporting medium and the heads in such a manner that the bar code moves firstly past the first head and secondly past the second head, said first head including means responsive to the bar code to store an image thereof said second head including first means responsive to the bar code to cause the stored image thereof to be read in synchronism with the passage of the bar code past the second head and second means responsive to the synchronously read image to write a modifiable magnetic code message on the bars of the bar code.
Apparatus for superposing a modifiable magnetic code on a fixed bar code according to a method comprising the step of magnetizing the bars in two different directions and wherein one of two binary values of the modifiable magnetic code is represented by a bar magnetized in a single direction, while the other binary value is represented by a bar divided into two zones magnetized in opposite directions from each other, said apparatus comprising a magnetic head containing an electromagnet, said magnetic head being fitted with a read winding and a write winding, means for causing relative movement of the bar code supporting medium and said head in such a manner that the electromagnet passes relatively across said bars, and wherein said apparatus further comprises a timer unit and means connected to said read winding for sensing the appearance of the beginning of a bar in front of said electromagnet to release said timer unit to allow writing by said write winding only when the electromagnet passes in front of the second half of the bar.
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