The Kimball tag is a cardboard tag containing human data and machine-readable to support hollow card processing. A Kimball tag is the initial form of a stock control label that, like its successor which then becomes a bar code, supports the back office data processing function. They are mostly used by the retail clothing industry ("fashion").
Marking a weapon that uses plastic toggles to paste a price tag into clothing is still known as the "Kimball weapon" (or corruption, "kimble weapon"), even though the tag now uses a barcode.
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History
Sears, Roebuck & amp; The company sponsors the development of a special perforated card system to track garment inventory, create timely management reports, and reduce administrative errors. The pilot system operated in 1952.
The A. Kimball Company, an established price-fixing company in New York City, and Engineering Company Karl J. Braun in Stamford, Connecticut developed a clothing and machine label that marked and pressed them.
The Potter Instrument Company of Great Neck, New York developed a photoelectric photo reader. Readers scan 100 tags per minute. The lens system magnifies the tag hole image projected by a gas-type photoflash tube into the phototubes array. Phototubes fired thyratrons that enabled relay logic to translate code digits encoded into Hollerith's code and punch a standard size punch card.
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