Patents Assigned to Escorp, Inc.
  • Apparatus for processing a card having displaceable bubbles thereon
    Patent number: 5144116
    Abstract: Apparatus for processing a menu device comprising a card; bubbles on the card having positions corresponding to selectable data; each bubble having a first position projecting upwardly from the plane of the card, and a second position into which it is displaced relative to the plane of the card, by finger pressure, to indicate selection of data corresponding to bubble position on the card, the apparatus comprising first structure for detecting which of the bubbles are so displaced, and; second structure to engage displaced bubbles and to urge them back toward the first positions after the first structure detects which of the bubbles are displaced to second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1992
    Assignee: Escorp, Inc.
    Inventor: Henry C. Harbers, Jr.
  • Manually actuable, machine readable menu card with rib controlled bubbles
    Patent number: 4889981
    Abstract: A menu device comprises(a) a card,(b) indicia on the card listing items to be selected,(c) bubbles on the card in alignment with the indicia, the bubbles having positions on the card representative of items to be selected,(d) the bubbles having first positions projecting in one direction outwardly from the plane of the card, and second positions into which they are displaced relative to the plane of the card, by finger pressure, to indicate selection of items corresponding to bubble positions on the card,(e) the bubbles have integral local ribbing for bubble displacement control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1989
    Assignee: Escorp, Inc.
    Inventor: H. C. Harbers, Jr.
  • Manually actuable, machine, readable menu card
    Patent number: 4812630
    Abstract: A menu device comprises(a) a card having a transparent section,(b) indicia on the card listing items to be selected,(c) bubbles on the card transparent section in alignment with the indicia, the bubbles having positions on the card representative of items to be selected,(d) each bubble having a first position projecting in one direction outwardly from the plane of the card, and a second position into which it is displaced relative to the plane of the card, by finger pressure, to indicate selection of items corresponding to bubble position on the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Escorp, Inc.
    Inventor: Harbers, Jr., H. C.
  • Menu device
    Patent number: 4808805
    Abstract: A menu device comprises(a) a card,(b) successive rows of indicia on the card listing items to be selected,(c) rows of bubbles on the card in alignment with said rows of indicia, the bubbles having positions on the card representative of numbers of items to be selected,(d) each bubble having a first position projecting upwardly from the plane of the card, and a second position into which it is displaced relative to the plane of the card, by finger pressure, to indicate selection of a number of said items corresponding to bubble position on the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: Escorp, Inc.
    Inventor: H. C. Harbers