Apparatus for producing magnetically encoded articles
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1. A system for producing articles bearing magnetic data, said system comprising:
- an elongated web comprising a carrier element with magnetic material thereon,means for advancing said web from a supply station, along a path past a recording station and a transfer station, to a take-up station, said recording station being located between said supply station and said transfer station.means for recording magnetic data on selected segments of said web at said recording station,means for transporting each of said articles past said transfer station,means for transferring said magnetic material with data recorded thereon from a said segment of said web to a corresponding article at said transfer station, andcontrol means including means for timing operation of said web advance means with operation of said transport means whereby each said segment is brought into general alignment with a corresponding one of said articles at said transfer station to allow transfer of said magnetic material thereto.
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Abstract
An apparatus is provided for producing magnetically encoded articles such as credit cards. Data from a master or other source is recorded on an elongated web carrying magnetically encodable material which is secured to a card blank or other article. Data from the master tape is stored in a memory and held for comparison with recorded data to verify correct recording. In the absence of a proper comparison the data is inserted from memory and recorded on the next card blank, which is then placed in the proper sequential position in the output stack.
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1. A system for producing articles bearing magnetic data, said system comprising:
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an elongated web comprising a carrier element with magnetic material thereon, means for advancing said web from a supply station, along a path past a recording station and a transfer station, to a take-up station, said recording station being located between said supply station and said transfer station. means for recording magnetic data on selected segments of said web at said recording station, means for transporting each of said articles past said transfer station, means for transferring said magnetic material with data recorded thereon from a said segment of said web to a corresponding article at said transfer station, and control means including means for timing operation of said web advance means with operation of said transport means whereby each said segment is brought into general alignment with a corresponding one of said articles at said transfer station to allow transfer of said magnetic material thereto. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system for producing a series of documents each with a magnetic data set, said system comprising:
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data source means for providing a sequence of data sets each to be recorded on a document in a series of documents, each data set being substantially unique from the others means for sequentially outputting said data sets from said data source means, memory means for sequentially storing said outputted data sets for said series of documents, means for recording each said outputted data set on a document in said series, means for effectively comparing the data set recorded on each document with the corresponding data set stored in said memory means, and control means including means responsive to the absence of a proper comparison within predetermined limits for causing said recording means to record on a subsequent document in the series said data set which was previously recorded defectively in lieu of the next data set in said sequence. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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