DOCUMENT CARRIER

• US 3,576,972 A
• Filed: 09/12/1969
• Issued: 05/04/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The National Bank of Georgia
• Original Assignee: Daniel J. Woods, Harold E. Wood
• Inventors: Wood, Daniel J., Wood, Harold E.
• Application Number:
  US04/857,410
• Time in Patent Office: 599 Days
• US Class Current: 235/487
• CPC Class Codes: B07C 3/18 Devices or arrangements for indicating destination, e.g. by code marks applying data to information carriers G06K1/12
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/02 characterised by the selection of materials, e.g. to avoid wear during transport through the machine

Abstract

A document carrier envelope for processing checks through automatic magnetic character recognition sorting equipment. The document carrier includes generally rectangular back and front sheets of approximately the same size. The front sheet is formed of relatively translucent material so that a check carried by the document carrier can be read, photographed or microfilmed and the front sheet is adhesively secured to the back sheet along one of the shorter side edges and along a line spaced from one of the longer side edges of the sheets. An elongated magnetic indiciareceiving strip is secured to the front sheet adjacent the adhesively secured longer side edges.

Claims

1. A document carrier envelope for processing checks through automatic magnetic charaCter recognition equipment comprising three separate sheets including a generally rectangular planar back sheet having top, bottom and opposite side edges, the top and bottom edges being longer than the side edges, a generally rectangular planar front sheet formed of substantially transparent material for permitting microfilming of a check carried by the envelope, the material of the front sheet being such that it is not readily imprintable with magnetic indicia, said front sheet being generally coextensive with said back sheet and having top, bottom and opposite side edges, the front and back sheets being adhesively joined directly to each other along the bottom edges thereof and along a line spaced from said bottom edges, said line being spaced from the bottom edges at least three-eighths inch whereby the bottom edge of a check carried by the envelope will be supported at least three-eighths inch from the bottom edge of the carrier, the front and back sheets also being adhesively joined along at least one of the side edges thereof, and an elongated indicia-receiving imperforate paper strip formed separately from the front sheet and adhesively secured directly thereto adjacent the bottom edge thereof to provide the envelope with a three-ply bottom portion, said paper strip being at least three-eighths inch wide and having a thickness approximately the same as the check to be processed whereby a plurality of check-carrying envelopes may be stacked substantially evenly one on another and having an outer surface which is readily imprintable with magnetic indicia and which extends outwardly beyond the plane of the front sheet whereby magnetic indicia carried by said strip surface may be positioned closer to the magnetic character recognition equipment than the portion of the front sheet adhesively joined to the back sheet, said paper strip rendering said three-ply bottom portion substantially opaque whereby photosensing means of the character recognition equipment will be actuated when the carrier passes thereby.

2. The document carrier of claim 1 in which the back sheet is formed of transparent material for permitting microfilming of the back of a check carried by the envelope.