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Claim 1

A MACHINE FOR COMPARING THE PRESENCE, OR ABSENCE, OF A HOLE IN A PREDETERMINED AREA IN A MASTER CARD PREPARED BY ONE PERSON, WITH THE PRESENCE, OR ABSENCE, OF A HOLE ON A CORRESPONDING PREDETERMINED AREA IN A SUBJECT CARD PREPARED BY ANOTHER PERSON, SAID MACHINE INCLUDING: AN ELONGATED GATE HAVING A LONGITUDINAL OPENING AND LATERAL OPENINGS ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID LONGITUDINAL OPENING AND COMMUNICATING THEREWITH INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS THEREOF, MEANS MOUNTING SAID GATE FOR LONGITUDINAL RECIPROCAL MOVEMENT, A PAIR OF PROBES, MEANS MOUNTING SAID PROBES FOR MOVEMENT IN ANGULARLY RELATED PLANES, A PIN CONNECTING CORRESPONDING ENDS OF SAID PROBES AND SELECTIVELY ENGAGEABLE WITH SAID LONGITUDINAL OPENING AND WITH EITHER OF SAID LATERAL OPENINGS, SAID LONGITUDINAL OPENING RECEIVING SAID PIN AND PERMITTING APPRECIABLE LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT OF SAID GATE RELATIVE TO SAID PIN, SAID LATERAL OPENINGS RECEIVING SAID PIN TO PERMIT MOVEMENT OF SAID PIN OUT OF ALIGNMENT WITH SAID LONGITUDINAL OPENING AND PREVENTING APPRECIABLE LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT OF SAID GATE WHEN SAID PIN IS OUT OF ALIGNMENT WITH SAID LONGITUDINAL OPENING, MEANS FOR PRESENTING SAID MASTER CARD TO ONE OF SAID PROBES, AND MEANS FOR PRESENTING SAID SUBJECT CARD TO THE OTHER OF SAID PROBES, WHEREBY THE IDENTICAL PRESENCE, OR ABSENCE, OF A HOLE IN BOTH OF SAID PREDETERMINED AREAS LOCATES SAID PIN IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID LONGITUDINAL OPENING AND PERMITS LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT OF SAID GATE, AND WHEREBY THE PRESENCE OF A HOLE IN THE PREDETERMINED AREA IN ONLY ONE OF SAID CARDS MOVES SAID PIN OUT OF ALIGNMENT WITH SAID LONGITUDINAL OPENING AND INTO EITHER OF SAID LATERAL OPENINGS TO PREVENT LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT OF SAID GATE.