Apparatus for automatic processing of data

Claim 2

Apparatus for producing an automatically processable data carrier marked with different groups of items of information relating to specific business transactions including merchandise purchasing, merchandise delivery with simultaneous marking of the price thereof, and merchandise selling, comprising a business machine having selectively operable bookeeping means for recording merchandise purchases, tag-marking means for marking merchandise tags, and cash register means for recording merchandise sales, and a data-marking device operatively connected thereto, said business machine having a control and adjustment mechanism for initially marking a data carrier, pursuant to one of said business transactions, with control data characters comprising heading data relating to the respective business transaction information group to be marked thereon, voucher constants relating to individual subgroups of the information group, and supplemental constants for differentiating the subgroups, and for thereafter marking the data carrier with numerical information relating to the respective business transaction, said control and adjustment mechanism comprising manually actuable adjusting members for introducing the numerical information correlated to the control data, comprising heading data, voucher constants and supplemental constants, into the business machine, and a plurality of control keys for releasing and controlling selective runs of the business machine for introducing said control data therein, the tag-marking means in the bookkeeping machine having mechanism actuable for selectively marking a single tag and a plurality of tags with information corresponding to the data marked on the data carrier, said business machine having switch means and said data-marking device having control means, said control means of said data-marking device being operatively connected with said switch means of said business machine and being actuable thereby to additionally mark on the data carrier alphabetic characters identifying respective groups of items of the numerical information, including optionally introducing a mark corresponding to an individual item of numerical information and a mark corresponding to a plurality thereof selectively.

Claim 3

Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said control and adjustment mechanism of the business machine comprises control means for marking control information on the data carrier, control means for controlling different machine runs for marking single, double and quadruple checks, control means for controlling machine runs for introducing amounts, control means for totalizing, and control means for selectively switching the data-marking device to individual marking of business transactions and to the marking of sums determined for more than one of the same business transactions.

Claim 4

Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said business machine has a keyboard including said control keys, amount keys and value keys, means for effecting various machine runs, and means operatively associated with several of said control keys for clearing said amount keys and value keys, others of said control keys being actuable at the termination of the respective completed machine runs for maintaining said amount keys and value keys in depressed position.

Claim 5

Apparatus for producing an automatically processable data carrier marked with different groups of items of information relating to specific business transactions including merchandise purchasing, merchandise delivery with simultaneous marking of the price thereof, and merchandise selling, comprising a business machine and a data-marking device operatively connected thereto, said business machine having a control and adjustment mechanism for initiaLly marking a data carrier, pursuant to one of said business transactions, with control data characters comprising heading data relating to the respective business transaction information group to be marked thereon, voucher constants relating to individual subgroups of the information group, and supplemental constants for differentiating the subgroups, and for thereafter marking the data carrier with numerical information relating to the respective business transaction, said control and adjustment mechanism comprising manually actuable adjusting members for introducing the numerical information correlated to the control data, comprising heading data, voucher constant and supplemental constants, into the business machine, and a plurality of control keys for releasing and controlling selective runs of the business machine for introducing said control data therein, said business machine having switch means and said data-marking device having control means, said control means of said data-marking device being operatively connected with said switch means of said business machine so as to additionally identify alphabetically respective groups of items of information on the data carrier, said business machine having a bank of control keys, a multiple selector operatively connected with said bank of control keys, switch relay means, rotary selector means and magnet means, and said data-marking means having a current divider, said multiple selector means having contacts connected with said switch relay means, said switch relay means having contacts connected with said current divider, and said current divider having a contact connected with a setting of said rotary selector means, said contact connections determining the different switching times for said magnet means for the purpose of varying the marking of said control data.

Claim 6

Apparatus for producing an automatically processable data carrier marked with different groups of items of information relating to specific business transactions including merchandise purchasing, merchandise delivery with simultaneous marking of the price thereof, and merchandise selling, comprising a business machine and a data-marking device operatively connected thereto, said business machine having a control and adjustment mechanism for initiaLly marking a data carrier, pursuant to one of said business transactions, with control data characters comprising heading data relating to the respective business transaction information group to be marked thereon, voucher constants relating to individual subgroups of the information group, and supplemental constants for differentiating the subgroups, and for thereafter marking the data carrier with numerical information relating to the respective business transaction, said control and adjustment mechanism comprising manually actuable adjusting members for introducing the numerical information correlated to the control data, comprising heading data, voucher constant and supplemental constants, into the business machine, and a plurality of control keys for releasing and controlling selective runs of the business machine for introducing said control data therein, said business machine having switch means and said data-marking device having control means, said control means of said data-marking device being operatively connected with said switch means of said business machine so as to additionally identify alphabetically respective groups of items of information on the data carrier, said business machine having a bank of control keys, a multiple selector operatively connected with said bank of control keys, switch relay means, rotary selector means and magnet means, and said data-marking means having a current divider, said multiple selector means having contacts connected with said switch relay means, said switch relay means having contacts connected with said current divider, and said current divider having a contact connected with a setting of said rotary selector means, said contact connections determining the different switching times for said magnet means for the purpose of varying the marking of said control data.