Apparatus for preparing and processing receipts for customers of parking lots or the like
US4257551A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 20, 1979 |
| Grant date | Mar 24, 1981 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 20, 1999 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07C11/00
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A card which a customer receives at the time of driving the vehicle into a parking lot and which bears encoded information denoting the date and time of entry is processed when the customer desires to remove the vehicle. At such time, the card is inserted into a housing to be automatically advanced in a first direction past a reader which decodes the information and supplies signals to a computer which actuates a perforating device serving to apply legible information to at least one portion of the card. The card is thereupon moved in the opposite direction into the range of a severing device which separates the one portion from the remaining portion of the card. The one portion is removed by the customer to serve as a customer receipt, and the remaining portion is transported away from the severing device and into a safe to serve as an operator's receipt. The legible information normally includes the cost of parking.
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