Airline ticket printer with ticket pre-staging and recirculation

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5684285
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08468432

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An airline ticket printer includes a magnetic reading and writing station that has a read/write head for recording information on, or reproducing information from, a magnetic stripe carried on the ticket. The ticket is driven past the read/write head by a drive mechanism. The ticket printer also has a second reading/writing station in series with the first station along a ticket feed path, so that errors in reading or writing by the first station may be detected and/or corrected at the second station. Tickets are pre-staged from a ticket storage bin to a staging point to reduce print-cycle time. Ticket errors can be corrected and changes can be made by re-inserting the old ticket into the machine, reading the information that had been magnetically recorded on the old ticket and either printing a new ticket or over-printing the old ticket. If a new ticket is printed, the old ticket is deposited in a safe receptacle inside the machine.

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SCI SYSTEMS INCHUNTSVILLE AL

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Campbell, Laird Laceys Spring, AL 7 82
Faes, Steven M New Market, AL 13 167
Fulton, Alfred L Huntsville, AL 17 502
Hnetynka, Martin J Huntsville, AL 7 82
Preston, David Huntsville, AL 11 92
Sampson, Scott D Huntsville, AL 13 131

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