(19)
(11) EP 0 033 234 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
12.08.1981 Bulletin 1981/32

(43) Date of publication A2:
05.08.1981 Bulletin 1981/31

(21) Application number: 81300307

(22) Date of filing: 23.01.1981
(84) Designated Contracting States:
CH DE FR GB LI NL SE

(30) Priority: 25.01.1980 GB 8002633

(71) Applicant: EMI Limited
 ()

(72) Inventor:
  • Sedgwick, Anthony
     ()

   


(54) Improvements in or relating to time related fee determination systems


(57) In automatic car parking systems it has been known to provide at entry a ticket which is encoded with the time of entry. This requires encoding at the entrance gates. This invention proposes providing tickets carrying a serial number and not the time. The time is instead held in a store 2 in association with the coded number. At exit the serial number read by a ticket reader 4 and is used to call up the entrance time. The two times are compared by circuits (7-10) to calcu- latethefee due and this is collected at an appropriate cash unit (5). It is applicable to other time-related services in addition to or instead of car parking. Where several services are combined payment may be effected individually or by a single payment. The same ticket may be used to gain entry to non-time-related services and the fee therefor collected with the time-related fee.






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