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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4917198 | Simultaneous multiple weighing inventory system Objects to be inventoried are positioned on a series of platforms for weighing. Each platform, which may be a storage shelf, is supported on a piston operating in a fluid pressure cylinder, either hydraulic or pneumatic. On signal from a computer-controll... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4901237 | Electronic scale system An electronic scale system having a plurality of electronic scales each having a device for entering and storing merchandise data with respect to many articles of merchandise. The stored merchandise data are automatically transmitted successively to the e... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4891755 | System for detecting removal of items from a hotel minibar and for the automatic charging of the bill of the gas for item removed from the minibar The invention relates to minibars located in hotel rooms, and more specifically to such minibars provided with means for ascertaining whether any item has been removed, its nature and its price, thus facilitating the recharging of the minibar and the char... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4887218 | Automated production release system A conceptual decision analysis tool for production release planning displays management parameters and objectives and prompts the user to define priorities. This encourages the user to plan based on management criteria. The user keys in the priorities and... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4887208 | Sales and inventory control system A comprehensive inventory and sales control system is particularly adapted for the segment of the furniture industry that involves special order items, such as sofas, love seats, upholstered chairs and the like. The system is adapted to provide instant co... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4887207 | Automated system for evaluating the sensitivity of inventory costs due to fluctuations in customer demand An automated inventory management system is provided which is easy to use and user friendly to evaluate the impact of customer demand changes on inventory. For a given item, the system automatically defines an inventory model by accessing an engineering p... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4878771 | Label printer A label printer is disclosed adapted to establish and store therein a set of retrieval codes in which at least one condition of the various conditions of the place where each commodity is kept in stock is encoded and to issue labels in succession for each... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4866255 | Apparatus for article storage, retrieval and inventory A plurality of flexible expandable containers for storing articles of any shape is provided, each having an attachment portion for suspending the containers from two parallelly spaced horizontal members of a supporting frame. Suspended adjacent containers... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4839875 | Technique for automatic tracking of cassette rentals and managing of information related thereto A rental control system for controlling the rent and return of cassettes is disclosed. Each cassette internally contains an article such as a recorded information medium, with an IC circuit for storing commodity information concerning the article, and a s... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4829428 | Beverage container sorting, accounting, and disposal method with compartmentalized hamper and can crusher Returnable beverage containers, on which a deposit has been paid at purchase, are returned to a return center for the containers, for example, in a retail outlet. At the return center, the returned containers are sorted and counted, and data about them ar... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4812985 | Article storage and retrieval system A system for the storage and retrieval of motor vehicle keys wherein the keys are mounted in a container to which is affixed a printed bar code label identifying the vehicle stock number, its color and model. The system includes a bar code reader and a pl... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4807177 | Multiple format hand held label printer A multiple format hand held label printer includes a processor, a memory, a keyboard, a thermal printer and an advance mechanism for a tape of successive labels carried on a substrate. The processor reads operator keyboard inputs and formats both machine ... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4800492 | Data logger for a post-mix beverage dispensing system A data logger for a post-mix beverage dispensing system in a fast food restaurant includes a data logger control box and drink counting software for operating a microprocessor coupled to the logger control box. The microprocessor can determine the number ... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4799156 | Interactive market management system A system for interactive on-line electronic communications and processing of business transactions between a plurality of different types of independent users including at least a plurality of sellers, and a plurality of buyers, as well as financial insti... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4797819 | System for determining replenishment needs on a product display by measuring vacant space The replenishment quantity for each article on a sales display is determined from the measurement of the length left on the peg, this measurement being performed by means of either: (a) a gun which comprises an ultrasonic emitting device and an ultrasonic... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4796209 | Random inventory system A method for locating and retrieving a randomly placed object, such as a steel coil, in a warehouse, such as a crane bay of a steel mill storage warehouse. The method comprises the steps of attaching an indicia identification to the object, recording the ... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4783740 | Inventory management system The inventory management system comprises a central control unit, a number of parts terminal units deposed at each parts container, and some guide terminal units arranged at each parts container shelf. A worker goes to a parts container in accordance with... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4782448 | Contract estimating system utilizing a digitizing ruler A contract estimating system includes a digitizer ruler divided into a plurality of equally spaced increments. The ruler generates an output signal representing the distance along the ruler at a point touched by a hand held probe. A digitizer board carrie... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4771383 | Sales data processing apparatus A sales data processing apparatus has a stock data memory for storing stock data indicating the stock of each item. When sales of a certain item are registered, a value corresponding to a registered number is subtracted from the stock data corresponding t... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4745555 | Method and apparatus for inventory control to optimize usage of colored fabric In a data base of inventoried fabric pieces (e.g. rolls) having associated predetermined color parameter value data, a target fabric piece is initially selected having color parameter values which substantially deviate from a nominal center point within t... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4744034 | Contract estimating system utilizing a bar code ruler A bar code ruler is divided into a plurality of equally spaced increments each of which is marked by a machine readable bar code number. The ruler includes a plurality of recesses along the length thereof which cooperate with a spring biased ball carried ... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4737910 | Apparatus for tracking inventory An apparatus is provided for monitoring inventory in a business or hospital to provide an immediate indication of the number of items in such inventory, the number of items needed to be reordered at any time to replenish the inventory to its maximum level... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4688178 | Method and apparatus for inventory control to optimize usage of colored fabric In a data base of inventoried fabric pieces (e.g. rolls) having associated predetermined color parameter value data, a target fabric piece is initially selected having color parameter values which substantially deviate from a nominal center point within t... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4683540 | Method and apparatus for ordering a working operation in an assembly line A method and an apparatus for ordering a working operation in an assembly line having sublines in which parts for different models are assembled. All of the parts in the assembly line have serial numbers. The parts are allocated with a working code which ... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4667291 | Container redemption method A method of redeeming returnable beverage containers that utilizes a return center for the containers located in the retail outlet. The return center includes an elongated counter for sorting and counting the returned containers and a computerized cash re... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4656591 | Order processing method and apparatus (II) An item characterizing code on each of a succession of items of different varieties loaded onto a conveyor is compared to item characterizations in the requirements of a succession of stored orders to select an order requiring each item and, in dependence... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4654800 | Control and monitoring apparatus for vending machines Sales management data such as sold product number data, sales data, unsold product number data, unit price data and sales condition data of a vending machine and individual columns are stored. When a given column and given sales management data are select... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4646238 | Material requirements planning system and procedures for use in process industries A system for controlling the flow of semiconductor products and their components through a production facility including assembly and final testing of a large number of different products with multiple product grades. The system stores information on the ... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4639875 | Quantity checking system and method A checking system is provided to check the condition of a plurality of storage racks, e.g., the quantity and types of articles in racks in a machine, with the articles being stored along the length of the racks. Rack indicating means is provided in the fo... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4636950 | Inventory management system using transponders associated with specific products An inventory management system establishes remote, non-contact counting techniques whereby large numbers of units in inventory can be tracked and tabulated quickly. The system includes microelectronic transponders associated with inventory units. The tran... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4633395 | Method for checking sheets of bills during their production Before travelling through the first printing unit (14), the sheets are provided on one edge with an individual, consecutively numbered code, which is stored in a computer. This edge is cut off at a time of subsequent trimming. Before and after each operat... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4597457 | Electronic scale with CRT display An electronic scale with a CRT display has an input means composed of a manual data input device, weighing means for measuring the weight of an article, a CRT display unit, and a control unit for effecting an arithmetic operation based on signals from the... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4591705 | Data processing device for inventory control Method and apparatus for determining the nature and amount of goods being moved into or out of a particular location, such as a stock yard or the like. The disclosed embodiment deals with trucks transporting material into or out of a stock yard. Each truc... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4563739 | Inventory and business management system which accounts for the contents of full and partially filled product containers A computer based system is used for taking inventory and obtaining inventory reports on numerous products which are dispensed in full containers or in quantities from partially filled containers. Each container includes a unique code identifying the produ... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4509123 | Automated tracking process for manufacturing and inventory An automated tracking process for items of manufacture and inventory, in which each item and each grouping or location of items is labeled with a unique nonvolatile machine-readable code identifying a corresponding data record maintained in a programmable... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4455483 | System for recording data relating to specific lots of materials, particularly to milk lots A system is presented for recording data relating to specific lots of materials, particularly milk lots, wherein the data are collected at delivery locations by a collecting vehicle and are brought by the vehicle to a collecting station, the system compri... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4419734 | Inventory control system An inventory control system for a plurality of storage areas is provided wherein each storage area comprises at least one platform adapted to support a plurality of identical articles, and platform-supporting means including transducer means for providing... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4414629 | Method and apparatus for making correlations and predictions using a finite field of data of unorganized and/or partially structured elements Kinds of data items to be examined are determined in terms of possible applicability to objects of examination and applied to objects of examination (which may be physical structures, chemical compounds, etc.) to produce a data package representative of e... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4383298 | Plant maintenance control system A plant maintenance control system designed to be effectuated through use of a computer; the basic aspect of the system relates to the unique results obtainable through particular operations performed by the computer based upon the unique organization and... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4346453 | Item display order picking system A semi-automatic picking system having pick modules associated with individual compartments of storage bays includes a switch, for manually decrementing or incrementing the module to indicate the number picked. One or more orders may be picked at the same... | 08/24/1982 |
