NL8300342A - ELECTRONIC PIGEON DETERMINATION SYSTEM. - Google Patents

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Short designation: Electronic pigeon clocking system.

The present invention relates to an electrical equipment. pigeon clocking system, i.e. on the clock and its related equipment. The present application can in many respects be regarded as an addition and improvement to the younger patent application number 8200835 in the following aspects.

A. Constator with matrix

In the younger patent application it was noted that the electronic detector would have a different appearance from the mechanical detector, namely that of a pocket calculator.

The invention therefore also relates to a pigeon timer, designed as an electronic micro-processor with digital time display, memory, display screen, keys for entering data, and for v. 15 recalling (displaying) data stored in the memory and means for calculating the flight results from the data previously stored after the entry of a pigeon.

The clock is equipped with a keyboard for entering the race number that the pigeon fancier reads from the race-20 ring, which is placed around the pigeon's leg after the pigeon has returned from the race. Earlier had already been recorded in the memory of the editor: -the start time of the pigeons, which time, for example, was announced on the radio; -the distance in kilometers? 25th loft coordinates etc.

By operating the buttons marked as such, the arrival time of a particular pigeon, its unloading time and the speed calculated from it can be called up and thus shown on the display. You can take part in several flights at the same time, with the flight data arranged in 30 separate columns and thus visible in the display.

When clocking incoming pigeons, the arrival time and other data of the pigeon are therefore displayed according to horizontal lines, i.e. step by step. If a pigeon from another flight number registers, 35 his data will simply be entered. To this extent the editor works just like a typewriter, line after line.

However, it is now required of such a clock that one can always return from a certain position to an earlier column or an earlier line. So if one gets three incoming pigeons to work 40 consecutively and has no time of those pigeons separately the flight ........ 8 3 0 0 3 4 2 .......... ............. .........................

If we consider the results, one always always goes back to the pigeon, where they left off. It is therefore always possible to return to a previously entered pigeon. In this connection, the clock according to the invention is characterized in that in addition to the keys, by whose operation the information is shown in the display according to successive horizontal lines, there are furthermore keys, whose operation makes information appear in the display of data on placing previous lines, which represents a decrease in the horizontal and / or vertical direction, i.e. in the opposite sense, relative to the currently displayed information location.

This last sentence means on the one hand in a direction to the left and / 9¾ upwards because yoor «jden®s © th (western) countries is the normal direction towards the right / down. However, there are countries where the reading direction is wholly or partly opposite.

A further detail of such a timer is characterized in that keys are present, by operation of which it is possible to move the displayed information a line or a column from any position on a line and column.

Despite these possibilities to step forward or backward In addition, the editor according to the invention has the further possibility, when comparing results of pigeons that have entered earlier, immediately upon crumbling, of a new pigeon having his match time recorded and his clock time registered. To this end, the clock according to the invention is characterized in that means are present whereby, upon the entry of a new competition number of a newly arrived pigeon, this is automatically stored on the next empty line, irrespective of which line is at that moment. was presented on the screen.

• B. Fixed foot ring with built-in IC:

For the future in the not too long term, the aim is for the race 30 vaanringr, .. which so far carries the variable flight data, entirely! superfluous: to make.

To this end, the pigeon's fixed foot ring is fitted with one or more ICs for the storage of fixed and variable data relevant to competitive sport. That is why this fixed foot ring is characterized by a ring with built-in IC for the storage of fixed and variable relevant data for competitive sports.

The fixed foot ring number, the year of birth and the homeland of the pigeon are programmed as fixed data. The variable data is a reprogrammed secret race number with the flight number for each flight. On a given day, one can use different 8T0Ö "3 4l ............

* 4 pigeons participate in two or more races, each with a different starting place, so that a different flight number is assigned to those different flights. The secret race number is used to determine the pigeon; it can only be known to the milker if he gets hold of the pigeon after completing the flight.

At the time of the basketing, the attendant receives the fixed footring numbers of the pigeons basketed for the milker, programmed by the association computer. Only rings with these numbers can be read by this clock. The milker cannot enter these numbers himself, so that the rings cannot be read during transport with any clock. The own editor will then store times before the! release time. Deleting these times would also mean deleting the fixed footring numbers, so that it can no longer be established. It will be technically very difficult to commit fraud, especially if all kinds of auctions are built into the protocols.

When the clock readers the ring, it stores all the data of the ring with the clock time. Using the pre-programmed time and distance associated with the flight number in the clock, the clock immediately calculates the flight speed. In this case, the night neutralization can be taken into account when the data required for this have just been programmed into the footring numbers.

Galvanic contacts are provided on the outside for reading and programming the ring. Contact can be made with a kind of pliers. A further feature of the fixed base ring according to the invention 25 'is therefore that on the outside of the ring galvanic contacts are provided which can be touched by hand or with a hand-operated sensor pliers and which are used for electronic programming, respectively. reading out the relevant data.

Input and output signals are passed through variations in the supply voltage or the current consumption of the IC. If you put 12 volts from the computer on the main contacts, the outputs automatically become inputs, so you can program the foot rings differently in the club building and store new race numbers in the IC.

Two insulated contacts to be mounted on 35 "finger and dune tops could be used to pack these contacts.

One then only has to take the ring to read in or out. With pliers with contacts or by hand (glove with contacts), the information from the IC (race and flight number) can be passed through the pliers or hands and a cord to a clock, which is worn fy around the neck or in the inner pocket.

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Another important feature of the fixed base ring is that only two galvanic contacts are arranged on the circumference of the ring, which number is sufficient to read in or out the variable data.

C; Vane strip, double or single.

5 This concerns a flapper strip, to be used as a competition around the leg of a racing pigeon participating in a racing race, which flapper strip for delivery from a dispensing device with other similar flapper strips by means of an adhesive layer on an opaque surface. are attached as a carrier and means of transport.

10 The vane strip, provided with a bet number, is placed around the pigeon's leg as a competition ring using ring pliers.

The self-adhesive strip made of weather-resistant material is printed on both sides. In the first place, the number of the vane strips on the transport carrier is visibly put on it. This number can be used for checking the correct registration of the pigeon.

It is of great importance that the vane strip bears a competition number and that measures have been taken to ensure that this competition number remains secret and can be verified after the competition. For this purpose, according to the invention, the vane strip is optionally printed on the top with a serial number, which is assigned to each vane strip and is printed on the bottom with a visually readable competition number, which is however inaccessible during registration and basketing of the pigeon.

When the pigeon dam returns from flight later, this number I is the absolute proof that the pigeon has arrived. However, in order to prevent fraud, this must be kept invisible during race basketting and afterwards until arrival at home. Because 'if such a pennant comes loose from the transport carrier during the basketing during the basketing, the competition number placed on the bottom would become visible. Of course this is not necessary and the place where the competition number is indicated at the bottom 30 has been provided with a cover sheet of opaque material, in order to withdraw the competition number from direct observation by unauthorized persons.

Preferably, the material for the front cover is formed by the material of the underlying transport carrier, in which a break line is provided at the location of the center zone of the vane strip in the material of the transport carrier.

A break line is formed in this backing paper by "punching out", such that a piece of backing paper remains adhered to the vane strip when the transport carrier is released. This piece of backing paper is at least as wide as the strip and so long that there is no adhesive in it. comes into contact with the 40 pigeon leg when the strip is folded around the leg. By in the

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vane strip dispenser the transport carrier to remove the sharp edge of a bending plate, the vane strip with the "punched out" piece of backing paper comes loose from the transport carrier. The vane strips are supplied piece by piece to the ring pliers.

5 Making the race number visually illegible and ensuring that the race number is verifiable afterwards ^ or in other words, that before the pigeon is sent to its race start place, something of this race number is left behind in the club room in a verifiable manner. .

10 One method is to place the competition number in barcode on the top of the vane strip. For this reason, a vane strip according to the invention has the feature that an information corresponding to the secret competition number is provided on the top side, that is to say the externally accessible side, of the vane strip and in barcode form.

• 15 So visually unreadable, but not unreadable for a reading pen linked to the association computer, while the competition number is printed on the back of the vane strip in legible writing, but remains unreadable because the aforementioned endpaper makes it out of the material of the carrier is covered. This also prevents the vane strip from adhering to the fifth leg when it is attached to it. Near. the transition of adhesive and covered material is perforated to facilitate the release of the vane strip after flight.

The front cover made of carrier material, for example, can then easily be removed from the stripping material, whereby the secret number is released. It can now be read and entered into the detector.

Another method is, for example, to work with a duplicate. Such a vane strip is characterized in that an information corresponding to the secret competition number is applied to a separate duplicate, which is on the. is carried out in the same manner as the main 30 strip stripper. _ · I

In that case, the dispensing device dispenses two flapper strips, one of which is intended to be applied as a competition vane and the other serves as a control strip and for this purpose it is glued to a basket which is maintained by the race manager. This one ; 35 duplo bears the same serial number on the top as the actual vane strip and has the competition number on the underside, which is covered by a part (protective plate) of the transport carrier that comes loose along the breaking line.

This method does not require entering a competition number in barcode 40 for storage in the computer for verification, but ~ sTo οΎΰ --- - before this can be: "·." the duplicate can be used. On the basket, on which the pigeons are registered during basketing, the duplicate is pasted behind each pigeon registration. If an unauthorized person wants to check which race number a particular pigeon has, he must unseen the duplicate strip of the paper from the basket state and remove the cover plate, which fraudulent action inevitably leaves traces.

In order to make any fraud even more difficult, a strip of cello tape is placed over an entire column of duplicates, so that unnoticed removal of the above becomes even more difficult, even almost impossible. This strip of cellotape has a two-part purpose, namely: a) as a seal to prevent access to the secret number »D: at might, but then the duplicate will be damaged and especially if it is stuck by celotape, because then also the paper of the basket state damaged? 15 b) as a collector for the simultaneous pulling of the duplicates, after which one still has to remove the bracts, so to reveal the secret competition number when the clocks are struck off.

D. Improved ring pliers' The ring pliers are intended to stick vane strips around the legs of the various pigeons. This vane strip is dispensed by a special vane strip dispenser and is placed on two pressure members of the ring pliers. Therefore, the ring pliers according to the invention are characterized by i; means for moving the pigeon leg through the pressing zone of two touching members touching each other, during which the vane strip is folded around the leg 25 '.

According to a further feature of the invention, the pressure members consist entirely of foam rubber or plastic. In this case, the pressure members perform a continuous movement.

However, the press-on members can also be designed in such a way that the press-on members are covered with foam rubber or foam plastic only over part of their circumference.

Another construction around the pigeon's leg through the narrow gap between the. contacting pressing members is to provide the pressing members each with a semicircular recess for the 35. recording the pigeon's leg.

The pressure members of these ring pliers are arranged such that the pressure members can assume one or two stable positions which in the latter case are symmetrical with respect to the common point of contact of the pressure members.

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ting with attached ring pliers, as described above.

E. Round reading device for fixed foot ring.

Just before the vane strip is folded around the pigeon leg, a reading pen has read the competition number in barcode on the still flat vane strip. In addition, the fixed foot ring number (to identify the pigeon) must also be read. This presents problems, especially if the curvature of the surface to be read is large. In order to overcome these problems, the ring and the reading device itself for reading the fixed foot ring is designed such that for reading the bar code, which is applied to the fixed foot ring of a pigeon leg, the reading pen is stationary and the ring can be rotated along before the reading pen,

In a preferred embodiment, the reading device is characterized by three or more rollers arranged along the circumference of an imaginary circle, at substantially mutually equal arc angles, the diameter of the circle being equal to the diameter of the foot ring, while one or two rolls can be swiveled out to allow the leg with foot ring to pass and the reading pen is placed between two rolls, a short distance from the imaginary circle. One or two of these rollers hereby drive the fixed foot ring, which then rotates around the pigeon's leg, so that the number in his cousin turns past the reading pen.

Although the rolls are not bound to a particular location, the advantage is that they are arranged in the vicinity of the ring pliers, for example according to a further feature of the invention such that the device is placed under the circle-shaped pressure members. or ring jaws of the ring pliers. In this way, the ring 25 can be provided with the competition strip and the competition number and the reading of the fixed foot ring number, i.e. take place in one continuous movement, wherein the pigeon leg first passes the ring pliers and is then pressed further down into the space between the three rollers. The pigeon leg then returns in the opposite direction.

The invention therefore also relates to a reading device as described above, which is mounted on a vane dispensing device.

There are reading operations with two reading pens: one reads the race number on the vane strip before it is folded in the ring pliers around the leg of the pigeon, and the other reads the identification number on the fixed foot ring. The information from the two reading pens can alternate m-b..v. an electronic transfer switch to be passed to a deco unit. . Such a reading device according to the invention has the character 8300342

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The invention will be explained in more detail below with reference to some exemplary embodiments shown in Figures 5 of the accompanying drawings. explained. '

Figure 1 shows a matrix of the stored data of the clocked pigeons;

Figures 2 a-f show a carrier for carrying and transporting vane strips thereon in a vane strip dispenser, with only one vane strip drawn and contemplated in various stages of its applications, the competition number remaining secret until the last moment.

Fig. 3 shows a variant of the principle of FIG. 2, namely a transport carrier with only one vane strip shown thereon, which cooperates with a smaller duplicate;

Fig. 4 a-e show the use of the ring pliers according to the invention in ringing a pigeon leg with a vane strip;

Fig. 5 shows the reading device according to the invention for reading the fixed foot ring in an arrangement near the ring pliers, also showing the vane strip dispenser; and

Fig.6 shows on. enlarged scale of the actual rotary reader.

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Figure 1 shows a matrix with lines and columns. The data of one pigeon can be found on one line, it being understood that the pigeon arriving as number X is stored on line X. Furthermore, there are three columns, with resp. the race numbers, the flying 5 speeds and the arrival times of the pigeons. Each box indicates what will appear in the display.

Suppose the flight speed of the 2nd pigeon (V2) is shown in the display. With the up key you stay in this column, but you go back one line; the speed of the first pigeon (VI) appears. If one had gone down 10, one would have got V3. With the keys "to the right" and "to the left" you stay on the same line but change the column, and; the arrival time resp. the race number of the 2nd pigeon has appeared. In this way, all data can be shown on the display.

Figure 2 shows a part of the transport carrier strip 11 on which a large number of printed vane strips 12 are successively adhered via their adhesive layer 22 "on the underside, which strips are spaced a certain distance apart. in the form of a roll in a vane strip dispenser 15, as shown in figure 5. It is seen therein that the transport carrier strip with the vane strips 12 is pulled off a supply roll 16 and is guided over a bending plate 17, which separates the separator *. between the transport carrier 11 and the vane strips 12, he creates the dispensing opening (not shown), wherein the vane-stripless transport carrier 11 * is further guided to a take-up reel 18.

The separation taking place is shown in various stages in Figure 2. In figure 2a the vane strip 12 and the transport carrier 11 are still connected to each other. In figure 2b during transport the vane strip just passes the not shown bending plate 17, whereby the vane strip 12 comes loose from the carrier 11. In figure 2c it can be seen that the vane strip 12 is folded around the leg of the pigeon, the overlapping ends 13,14 stick together, but the middle zone 23 of the strip, * from which the actual competition 25 is formed around the leg, is non-adhesive around the leg 21 'because a bract 26 is adhered to this middle zone . This bract is here derived from the material of the transport carrier 11 itself, for which purpose a breaking line 27 has been punched in the carrier material before the roll 16 was manufactured. Thus, after passing the bending plate 17, the transport carrier 11 continues to the take-up reel 18; without vane strips, but with holes 28 at the places where the bract leaf 26 has come loose from the carrier material 26 from 8300342-10-.

Fig. 2d again clearly shows the vane strip 12 with the bract leaf 26 as this assembly has detached itself on the transport carrier 11. One therefore looks at the underside of the vane strip, which underside forms the inside of the ring 25 formed in fig. 2c.

It is clear that all these mentioned actions are performed in the clubhouse during the ringing and basketing of the pigeons. It is an absolute requirement that the betting number, which is given to the pigeon, remains unknown to everyone who receives the pigeon between the moment of rings of the pigeons and the moment when the pigeons are released, while there is still information 'about this race number somewhere in the association building for possible verification.

These seemingly contradictory requirements are fulfilled in the invention in that the competition number printed in barcode 29 on the vane-15 strip 12, see Fig. 2a, before ringing, is read and stored in the association computer, where no unauthorized persons. The race number is also printed in legible writing on the underside of the vane strip, but is hidden because it is folded at the same time with a bract 26 around the leg 21 of a pigeon and thereby also avoids direct observation. First when. after the pigeon has returned from the competition flight, the owner of J the pigeon may remove the flyleaf ^ 26 and can read the competition number> 12348, and enter it in his clock.

In Fig. 2e the bract 26 is partly removed and the competition number partly visible. In Fig. 2f, the vane strip 12 and the spathe 26 are completely separated from each other. .

It is clear from the above that the 2-part function of the spathe, among others: a. Hiding the race number from the ringing, until the return of the pigeons from the flight.

b. preventing the vane strip from sticking to the pigeon's leg.

Fig. 2c, and f show the tear line 31 along which the ring of the leg 21 of the pigeon can be torn loose.

In fig. 3, a different path has been taken for the aforementioned conflicting requirements, namely working with a duplicate 32. The duplicate carries the same serial number as the main strip, carries the same competition number at the bottom and also releases from the transport carrier. with bract 36. The difference is that the competition number on the top is not in barcode. The duplicate now serves as the pigeon with the main strip 12 3 3 Ö Ö T4 T ...... ..... — ............. ......

% -11- leaves, as remaining information in the clubhouse for verification purposes, because the duplicate 32 is pasted on the basketing list behind the registration data of the pigeon concerned, whereby the bract leaf 36 always keeps the race number secret.

Fig. 4 a-e shows the operation of one of the possible embodiments of a ring container intended for the present electronic pigeon detection system in different phases. The intention of. the ring-pliers adapted to the new observation system is to apply a competition ring not over but to pass the leg of a pigeon through 10 not from a closed ring but to fein a strip, which is folded around the leg of the pigeon into a ring, which are glued together only at the overlapping ends.

In fig. 4, for the purpose of surrounding the pigeon leg, 21 using a vane strip 12 uses a ring pliers 40 of the ring pelvis type, ie. of the type in which semicircular recesses 43,44 are provided in the sector or segment-shaped pressure members 41,42. These recesses enable the pigeon leg 21 to pass through the narrow gap 46 in the contact zone between the pressing members 41, 42. Because the pressing members can rotate about their axes 47, 48, the circumferences of the two pressing members are rolled past one another, whereby the contact zone moves and eventually the pigeon leg, ringed, leaves the ring tongs at the bottom.

The various phases of this ringing operation are shown in Figures a: through e and are self-explanatory, so that no further explanation is required. Therefore, a single comment will suffice. Fig. 4a shows vane strip 12 in elongated form, which has just left the vane-strip dispenser 15. The strip comes out such that the top defined in fig. 2a> b is below and the opaque flyleaf 26 is not below, but above. The leg 21 is lowered and gradually the strip 12 is folded around the leg in a ring (Fig. 4b).

In Fig. 4c, the ring 25 is closed and the self-sticking ends 13 and 14 of the strip are superimposed. In the phase d, when the leg 21 has passed the contact zone via the recesses 43, 44, these ends are firmly pressed together by further rolling the circle contours over each other (fig. 4e).

In another embodiment of the ring pliers 40, the pressing members 41, 42 may be disc-shaped with only recesses 43 and 44.

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It is also possible to rotate the discs continuously, i.e. without stops, if these discs are given a circumferential length such that the strip length required for ringing goes there on a whole number of times and then as many notches or recesses are provided in the circumference.

A modified embodiment of such continuous pressure rollers is a set of discs of resilient, compressible material such as foam rubber, foam plastic and the like.

Figures 5 and 6 show a rotary reading device 50 to be used with the electronic detection system according to the invention, which cooperates with the ring pliers 40 and with the vane strip dispenser 15 and is optionally mounted thereon. Figure 5 shows the rotary reader 50 in its spatial relationship with the other equipment belonging to the recording system; in fig.6 only on an enlarged scale.

The rotary reader is essentially formed by three rollers 51-53 arranged around an imaginary circle 54, in which circular space 56 a pigeon leg 21 with its fixed base ring 57 can be accommodated, for which purpose at least one i. rolls, in the example roll 51, can be swiveled out _zi_jn.r as indicated by the double arrow 58.

One or two rolls are driven, eg the roll 52, so that the fixed foot ring -57 starts to rotate slowly around the leg 21 of the pigeon. Between the rollers: 52 and 53 a reading pen 59 is arranged stationary, so that it state is the fixed footring number, which is present in barcode, can be read. A little beforehand, a different reading pen 61 read the race number present in barcode on vane strip 12. The reading pens 59, .61. transmit their information alternately to a decoding unit 62 via an electronic switch (not shown).

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Claims (22)

1. Pigeon timer, designed as an electronic micro-processor with digital time display, memory, display screen, keys for entering data \ and for calling up (displaying) data stored in the memory and means for recovering from the pre-stored and later after 5 entry of a pigeon entered data, to calculate the results of the flight, characterized in that in addition to the keys, by whose operation the information is shown in the display according to successive horizontal lines, there are also keys, whose operation makes information appear in the display of data in places of previous 10 lines, which represents a decline in the horizontal and / or vertical direction, in the opposite sense, compared to the information currently displayed. Pigeon verifier according to claim 1, characterized in that there are keys, by operation of which it is possible to move the displayed information a line or a column from any place on a line and column. Pigeon editor according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that means are present whereby, when a new racing number of a newly arrived pigeon is entered, this is automatically stored on the next 20 empty line, regardless of which line at that moment was presented on the screen. 4. Electronically programmable fixed foot ring for a competitive :: r, battle ring, characterized by a ring with built-in IC for the storage of fixed and variable relevant data for competitive sports. Fixed foot ring according to claim 4, characterized in that galvanic contacts are arranged on the outside of the ring, which can be touched by hand or with a hand-operated sensor pliers and which are used for electronic programming, respectively. reading out the relevant data. Fixed foot ring according to claim 5, characterized in that only two galvanic contacts are arranged on the circumference of the ring, which number is sufficient to read in or out the variable data. 7. Vane strip to be used as a competition ring around the leg of a racing pigeon participating in a race, which vane strip for attachment from a delivery device with other similar vane strips are adhered by means of an adhesive layer on an opaque surface as carrier and transport means, with -the feature r-that the vane strip on the top side is even, 8 3 0 0 34 2 ft. · '• - -14- ........... ....... is printed with a serial number, which is assigned to each vane strip and printed on the bottom with a visually legible competition utility , which is inaccessible during the registration and basketing of the pigeon. 8. Strip strip according to claim 7, characterized in that the place where the competition number is indicated on the underside is provided with an endpaper of opaque material, in order to extract the competition number from direct observation by unauthorized persons. Vane strip according to claim 8, characterized in that the material for the front cover is formed by the material of the underlying transport carrier, in which a break line is arranged in the material of the transport carrier at the location of the central zone of the vane strip. Vane strip according to any one of claims 7-9, characterized in that an information corresponding to the secret competition number is arranged on the top side, i.e. the side which is accessible from the outside, in barcode form. Vane strip according to any one of claims 7-9, characterized in that an information corresponding to the secret competition number is provided on a separate duplicate, which is designed in the same manner as the main vane strip. 12. Pliers for rings, on a vane strip to fit the leg of a pigeon, characterized by means for moving the pigeon leg through the pressing zone of two touching pressing members, during which movement the vane strip is folded around the leg . Ring pliers according to claim 12, characterized in that the pressing members consist entirely of foam rubber or plastic. Ring pliers according to claim 12, characterized in that the pressure members are covered with foam rubber or foam plastic only over part of their circumference. Ring pliers according to claim 12, characterized in that the pressing members each have a semicircular recess for receiving the pigeon's leg. 16. Ring pliers according to claim 14 or 15, characterized in that the pressing members can assume one or two stable positions which in the latter case are symmetrical with respect to the common point of contact of the pressing members. Vane strip dispenser with attached ring pliers as claimed in any of the claims 12-16. 18. Reading device for reading bar code using 8300342 »* -15 --...... of an associated reading pen, characterized in that for reading the bar code which is arranged on the fixed foot ring of a pigeon leg, the reading pen is stationary and the ring is rotatable in front of the reading pen. Device according to claim 18, characterized by three or more rollers arranged along the circumference of an imaginary circle, at substantially mutually equal arc angles, the diameter of the circle being equal to the diameter of the foot ring, while one or two rolls can be swiveled out to allow the leg with foot ring to pass through and the 10 reading pen is placed between two rolls, a short distance from the imaginary circle. Device as claimed in claim 18 or 19, characterized in that the device is placed under the cyclic pressing members or ring jaws of the ring pliers. A device according to any one of claims 18-20 attached to a vane strip dispenser. 22. Device according to claim 21, characterized in that the stationary disposed reading pen for reading the fixed foot ring cooperates with a stationary disposed reading pen for reading the competition number on the vane strip, which reading pins can be connected alternately via an electronic switch on a decoder. 16a. Ring pliers according to claim 12, characterized in that the pressing members are designed as a continuous disc with recesses, the disc having a circumferential length such that the strip length required for the ring-length required goes there a whole number of times and in that case there are as many notches or circumferential recesses are provided. 30 i #! 35 40 '... =: 33 0 0 3 4 2