Body-carried medical history card

• US 3,921,318 A
• Filed: 01/22/1973
• Issued: 11/25/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Anthony Calavetta
• Original Assignee: Anthony Calavetta
• Inventors: Calavetta, Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Rein, Melvin D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Contreras, Wenceslao J.
• Application Number:
  US05/325,943
• Time in Patent Office: 1,037 Days
• Field of Search: 40/2.2,158,158B,135 283/7
• US Class Current: 40/626
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/00 Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof printing processes to produce identification or security features B41M3/14
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/28 for use in medical treatment or therapy
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/309 Photographs
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/318 Signatures
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/351 Translucent or partly translucent parts, e.g. windows
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/42 by photographic processes
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/45 Associating two or more layers
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/47 using adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/485 by electronic processing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06046 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/90 Medical record

Abstract

A body-carried medical history card has a visible indicia bearing portion with identification data and critical medical data and has a medical record microfilm bearing portion with one or more strips of laterally connected microfilm frames of a selfproofed medical history. Visible indicia and microfilm frames are integrally formed as images in a thick piece of film which is carried on the person of the subject of the medical data. The card is made by reducing identified and certified medical history pages and producing a strip of microfilm frames of those pages. A jacket having an opaque area is printed with visible indicia such as the identification of the person and critical medical data taken from the medical history pages. The microfilm is fitted in a sleeve within the jacket and a heavy diazo film is exposed through the jacket using ultraviolet light. The heavy film is then developed with visible indicia and microfilm images produced within the film spaced from edges and surfaces. A backing is added, and the visible indicia are read against the backing. A magnetic tape is added for storing machine readable information. In a dog tag size card, the microfilm frames are arranged in a substantially square area in the tag-card, and a hole for receiving a body member encircling chain penetrates the visible indicia bearing portion.

Claims

1. A medical history identification card comprising a bodycarried generally rectangular unitary integrally formed card having a human visually readable visible indicia bearing first portion, visible indicia photographically disposed in the first portion, and having a medical record microfilm bearing integrally formed second integral portion and medical microfilm records photographically disposed in the second portion, wherein the medical record microfilm bearing portion is recessed from outer surfaces of the visible indicia bearing portion, whereby visible indicia on the card are immediately accessible for information to its bearer, medical personnel and others, and wherein medical records are immediately available to medical personnel having microfilm readers and printers, and whereby bearer indicia and microfilm records are concurrently affixed for avoiding erroneously entered data.

2. The medical history card of claim 1 wherein the visible indicia bearing portion occupies a relatively large section of the unitary integrally formed film card and wherein the medical microfilm record bearing portion occupies a relatively small section of the card.

3. The medical history card of claim 1 wherein the visible indicia bearing portion occupies an upper two-thirds of a wallet-size unitary integrally formed film card and wherein the medical history microfilm portion occupies a lower third of the wallet-size card.

4. The medical history card of claim 1 wherein the card is a photographic flat film with visibly legible indicia disposed as photographic images within the film and wherein medical microfilm records are integrally formed as photographic images within the film.

5. The medical history card of claim 4 wherein the photographic images are spaced inward from outer walls of the film.

6. The medical history card of claim 4 further comprising a backing coating overlying a back side of the visible indicia bearing portion, whereby photographic image indicia may be read against the background of the coating.

7. The medical history card of claim 1 further comprising a magnetic tape strip on a rear surface thereof parallel to one elongated edge of the card in an area on a back of the first portion.

8. The medical history card of claim 1 wherein the medical microfilm bearing portion comprises a plurality of microfilm frames integrally formed and photo graphically imposed in the card in side-by-side arrangement positioned in a strip parallel to a longitudinal edge of the unitary card.

9. The medical history card of claim 1 further comprising a hole in the visible indicia bearing portion for affixing a neck-encircling chain and a clamping slot in an edge near the hole, and wherein the medical record microfilm bearing portion comprises a generally square portion, whereby the device is configured and is carried as a dog tag.