Personalized card pack producing method

• US 4,244,582 A
• Filed: 03/06/1979
• Issued: 01/13/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mohammad Raees, Yasushi Hayashibara
• Original Assignee: Mohammad Raees, Yasushi Hayashibara
• Inventors: Hayashibara, Yasushi, Raees, Mohammad
• Primary Examiner(s): Oechsle, Anton O.
• Application Number:
  US06/018,021
• Time in Patent Office: 679 Days
• Field of Search: 273/293, 273/294, 273/295, 40/2.2, 40/360, 156/384, 156/387
• US Class Current: 273/293
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/02 Cards; Special shapes of cards card-printing methods B41K, B41M
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2250/285 Photographs

Abstract

Cards such as playing cards have numerals or patterns corresponding to the play, printed on their one sides, while, on the other sides of these cards, printed is a common pattern. According to the invention, attractive and amusing cards of the user'"'"'s own can be obtained, because the cards are so produced as to allow the user to print his favorite pattern, such as portrait of his family, actor or actress, automobile, airplane and the like, as the common pattern on the other sides of the cards.

Claims

1. A method for producing a pack of cards for game or playing purposes, comprising the steps of:

forming for each card a reverse body by printing on one side thereof a pattern, symbol, character, numeral or the like necessary to the game or play, and by applying to the other side thereof an adhesion surface;

providing for each card an obverse body separate from said reverse body with said obverse body having one side substantially blank and suitable for subsequent applying of a personalized design by the user and the other side suitable for securement to said adhesive surface;

when the cards are to be used, printing said one sides of said obverse bodies of said pack of cards with a pattern, symbol, character, numeral or other personalized design which is a favorite of the user, and covering said adhesion surfaces of said reverse bodies with said other sides of said obverse bodies, and therewith producing a pack of laminated cards.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of forming said reverse body includes adhering a base body and a further body to each other, the step of adhering said obverse body including adhering said obverse body to the side of said base body opposite said further body such that said base body is disposed therebetween to constitute an intermediate layer.

3. The method of claim 1 including the step of temporarily covering said adhesion surface of said reverse body with a peelable layer after applying said adhesive layer;

and

after said printing of said obverse body with a said favorite design of the user, peeling said peelable layers from said adhesion surfaces of said reverse bodies to permit said covering of said adhesion layers with said obverse bodies.

4. A method for producing a pack of cards for game or playing purposes, comprising the steps of:

forming of sheet material a reverse body by printing on one side thereof, for each card to be produced, a pattern, symbol, character, numeral or the like necessary to the game or play and by applying to the other side thereof an adhesion surface;

forming of sheet material an obverse body having one side substantially blank and suitable for subsequent applying of a personalized design, for each card to be produced, by the user and the other side suitable for securement to said adhesion surface;

when the cards are to be used, printing said one side of said sheet material containing said obverse bodies with a common pattern, symbol, character, numeral or other personalized design which is a favorite of the user for each card to be produced, and applying said other side of said sheet material containing said obverse bodies to said other side of said sheet material containing said reverse bodies with said obverse bodies covering said adhesion surfaces and with the personalized design on the obverse bodies of each card to be produced superposed in alignment with the pattern or the like printed on said one side of the reverse body of each such card; and

thereafter cutting the laminated structure comprised of the adhered together reverse body sheet material and obverse body sheet material into the required number of laminated cards.