Automatic ticket vending machine
AssigneeZober Development Corporation
InventorRichard J. Zober
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Abstract
A method of severing a continuous strip having transversely arranged perforations into separate segments including advancing said strip along a predetermined path; deforming a portion of said strip at said transversely arranged perforations; sensing the location of said perforations by causing contact between a sensor and said deformed portion; advancing the sensed perforations a predetermined distance to a location directly in line with a severing knife; and causing the knife to sever said deformed portion at said transversely arranged perforations to form a separate segment.
Claims13
A method of severing a continuous strip having a plurality of transversely arranged perforations defining a plurality of sequentially arranged segments into separate segments comprising the following steps for each of said perforations:
- (a) advancing said strip along a predetermined path;
- (b) deforming a portion of said strip at and proximal to said transversely arranged perforation;
- (c) sensing the location of said perforation by causing contact between a sensor and said deformed portion;
- (d) advancing the sensed perforation a predetermined distance to a location directly in line with a severing knife;
- (e) causing the knife to sever said deformed portion of said strip at said transversely arranged perforation to form a separate segment;
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- (f) continuously repeating steps (a)-(e) for each of said segments.
Apparatus for severing a continuous strip having transversely arranged perforations into separate segments comprising:
- means for advancing said strip along a predetermined path;
- means located adjacent said predetermined path for deforming a portion of said strip at and proximal to each of said transversely arranged perforations;
- means located adjacent said predetermined path for sensing the exact location of each deformed portion;
- means connected to said sensing means for controlling said advancing means such that each sensed deformed portion is advanced a predetermined distance to a location directly in line with a severing knife;
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- means connected to said controlling means for causing said knife to sever each deformed portion at said transversely arranged perforations to form a separate segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.