Tabulating form and method

Claim 1

A MACHINE READABLE TABULATING FORM COMPRISING A PAPER STRIP OF SUBSTANTIALLY GREATER LENGTH THAN WIDTH HAVING A MULTIPLICITY OF INDIVIDUAL QUALITY TABULATION SECTIONS EXTENDING ACROSS THE WIDTH OF SAID STRIP AND LONGITUDINALLY SPACED FROM ONE ANOTHER FOR SEQUENTIAL READING OF SAID SECTIONS UPON LONGITUDINAL ADVANCE OF SAID STRIP THROUGH A READING AND TABULATING MACHINE THEREFOR, SAID QUALITY TABULATION SECTIONS EACH INCLUDING IN A SINGLE LINE, TRANSVERSELY ARRANGED AND ALIGNED, PRINTED INDICIA SYMBOLICALLY IDENTIFYING EACH OF SAID QUALITY TABULATION SECTIONS FOR HUMAN RECOGNITION, MACHINE INITIATING INDICIA FOR MACHINE RECOGNITION OF EACH INDIVIDUAL QUALITY TABULATION SECTION AND MACHINE TABULATING INDICIA DEFINING A CODE FOR TABULATING A QUALITY ENTERED IN EACH QUALITY TABULATION SECTION, AND A SERIES OF UNIFORMLY SPACED APERTURES ALONG AT LEAST ONE LONG SIDE OF SAID STRIP FOR CONTROLLING THE LONGITUDINAL ADVANCE OF SAID STRIP THROUGH A READING AND TABULATING MACHINE THEREFOR, EACH OF SAID APERTURES BEING IN TRANSVERSE REGISTRY WITH A SAID INDIVIDUAL QUALITY TABULATION SECTION.