COMBINATION CREDIT CARD

• US 3,713,235 A
• Filed: 11/09/1970
• Issued: 01/30/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Heinz Theodore Felix Roberts
• Original Assignee: Heinz Theodore Felix Roberts
• Inventors: Roberts, Heinz Theodore Felix
• Primary Examiner(s): Michell, Robert W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Contreras, Wenceslao J.
• Application Number:
  US05/087,884
• Time in Patent Office: 813 Days
• Field of Search: 40/2.2 283/7
• US Class Current: 283/99
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/347 Passive cards
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/10 together with a coded signal , e.g. in the form of personal identification information, like personal identification number [PIN] or biometric data
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1058 PIN is checked locally
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/904 Credit card

Abstract

A credit card, security pass or like identification device in the form of a panel having a window therein, a display slide located beneath the panel for movements between an effective position (wherein a predetermined portion of the slide is in register with and exposed at the window) and an ineffective position (wherein the predetermined portion is out of register with the window and not visible therethrough) and a plurality of displaceable coded elements cooperating with the slide to prevent its movement to the effective position except in predetermined relative positions thereof.

Claims

1. An identification device suitable for use exclusively by the proper holder thereof comprising:

a panel having a window therein, a display slide located beneath the panel for shifting movement between an effective position wherein a predetermined portion of the slide is in register with and visible through the window and an ineffective position wherein the predetermined portion is out of register with the window and invisible therethrough, a plurality of displaceable coded elements cooperating with the slide for preventing movement of the slide to its effective position except in predetermined relative positions thereof, the coded elements being in the form of coded slides extending across and displaceable transversely relative to a portion of the slide and providing abutments for engaging respective protrusions on the slide, the abutments having gaps therein which register with the protrusions in the predetermined relative positions to permit movement of the slide.