Abstract:
A transaction record is prepared in both human and machine readable form by providing a card having both embossed data and magnetic data thereon and simultaneously imprinting the embossed data on a record card while transferring the magnetic data to a magnetizable portion of the record card. The magnetic data on the card is comprised of a plurality of discrete magnetic bits and is transferred to the magnetizable portion of the record card by subjecting the magnetic data and the magnetizable portion to a saturating prebiased D.C. field followed by a weaker D.C. transfer field.
Abstract:
1281779 Data transfer; cash transactions INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 23 Nov 1970 [29 Dec 1969] 55546/70 Headings G4M and G4T [Also in Division B6] An apparatus for transferring embossed and magnetic information from a card to a record medium, both having magnetizable regions, comprises means for pressing the card and record medium together to imprint the embossed information and a magnetic transfer head movable over the card and record medium while their magnetizable regions are in register. The embodiment described with respect to Fig. 1 is identical to the embodiment of Specification 1,281,780 except for the construction of magnetic transfer head (38), see below. In a modification, Fig. 4, one or more magnetic tapes 102 are passed over cards 100, 112 and bands 114 and beneath record medium 106. Bands 114 are optionally used instead of wheels (42), Fig. 1 (not shown), and to obtain a complete record of business transactions for inventory purposes, bands 116 may be provided for recording item numbers. Both sets of bands may be controlled from the keyboard of a cash register. The information on tape(s) 102 can be read on an offline machine or read directly by a head 118 which sends data to an on-line computer. Recording head (38), Figs. 1 and 2 (not shown), comprises ceramic magnets (60, 62) and high permeability pole pieces (64, 66, 68) which form gaps (70, 72), the latter having a smaller field of opposite polarity to the former. Hysteresis curves are given, Fig. 3 (not shown), relating to the passage of head (38), with gap (70) leading, over the superposed magnetizable areas of card (16), Fig. 1 (not shown), and strip (30) of record medium (28).