Patents by Inventor Peter F. Mathews

Peter F. Mathews has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Record card feeding apparatus
    Patent number: 3999747
    Abstract: Apparatus for feeding data processing record cards seriatim from the bottom of a stack to a data sensing station or the like including a pair of oscillating picker members for displacing a record card from the bottom of the stack, and a pair of sector rollers for intermittently gripping the displaced card and moving it at right angles to the direction of displacement to the nip of a set of feed rollers. Both the picker members and sector rollers are driven from a common source, the picker members being harmonically driven through a unique coupling device including a pair of flexural elements mounted at right angles to each other to give a universal action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1974
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1976
    Assignee: Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation
    Inventors: Frank A. Digilio, Peter F. Mathews, James H. Roberts, Donald R. Morreall, Douglas J. Reittinger