Credit card/smart card test device

An automated card retrieval and reinsertion device for card reading device testing, comprising:

• a housing assembly comprising a front face proximate to the card reading device;
• a shaft coupled to a back face of the housing assembly;
• an upper gripper roller assembly, wherein an axis of the upper gripper roller assembly resides within a plurality of slots in side faces of the housing assembly;
• a lower gripper roller assembly, wherein an axis of the lower gripper roller assembly is fixedly coupled to the side faces of the housing assembly, wherein the upper and lower gripper roller assemblies grip a test card;
• a plurality of springs coupled to the axes of the upper and lower gripper roller assemblies;
• a microswitch coupled to the housing assembly, wherein the shaft moves the housing assembly away from the card reading device when the microswitch is in a first state, wherein the shaft moves the housing assembly toward the card reading device when the microswitch is in a second state, wherein the microswitch is placed into the first state by the test card when the test card is retrieved from the card reading device;
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• a stationary card bumper proximate to the back face of the housing assembly, wherein a position of the test card is shifted toward the card reading device when the test card abuts the stationary card bumper, wherein the shifting of the test card places the microswitch in the second state.

An automated card retrieval and reinsertion device for card reading device testing, comprising:

• a housing assembly comprising a front face proximate to the card reading device;
• an air cylinder, comprising:
• a shaft coupled to a back face of the housing assembly, wherein the shaft retracts when an air supply is provided to the air cylinder, and
• an internal return spring, wherein the internal return spring extends the shaft when the air supply is not provided to the air cylinder;
• an upper gripper roller assembly, wherein an axis of the upper gripper roller assembly resides within a plurality of slots in side faces of the housing assembly;
• a lower gripper roller assembly, wherein an axis of the lower gripper roller assembly is fixedly coupled to the side faces of the housing assembly, wherein the upper and lower gripper roller assemblies grip a test card;
• a plurality of springs coupled to the axes of the upper and lower gripper roller assemblies;
• a microswitch coupled to the housing assembly, wherein the air supply is provided to the air cylinder when the microswitch is in a first state, wherein the air supply is not provided to the air cylinder when the microswitch is in a second state, wherein the microswitch is placed into the first state by the test card when the test card is retrieved from the card reading device;
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• a stationary card bumper proximate to the back face of the housing assembly, wherein a position of the test card is shifted toward the card reading device when the test card abuts the stationary card bumper, wherein the shifting of the test card places the microswitch in the second state.