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Credit card embossing and recording system

  • US 4,755,069 A
  • Filed: 06/23/1986
  • Issued: 07/05/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/23/1986
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A recording system for embossing blank cards with a plurality of vertically separated horizontally disposed lines on which characters are to be embossed with at least one line being embossed with characters of a first pitch and at least one line being embossed with characters of a second pitch and for magnetically recording digitally encoded information on one or more tracks of a recording medium disposed on the card comprising:

  • card supply means for feeding blank cards to be embossed from a pickup station to a recording station where the one or more tracks are recorded, the recording station having means for receiving individual blank cards which are fed by the card supply means and holding the individual cards in a fixed recording position while the one or more tracks are recorded;

    card transporting means for receiving blank cards to be embossed from the recording station and for transporting cards received from the recording station along a card transport path to a plurality of separate embossing positions and to a position where embossing is completed;

    recording means mounted in proximity to the recording station, the recording means having a head assembly including head means for recording and playback which is movable by a head transporting means along the magnetic recording medium of a card to cause digitally encoded information to be recorded on the one or more tracks of the magnetic recording medium when moved in a forward direction and to be played back from the magnetic recording medium when moved in a reverse direction;

    a plurality of card embossing means each disposed at a separate one of the embossing positions disposed along the transport path, each card embossing means being vertically positioned with respect to the transport path to emboss a different one of the horizontally disposed lines of characters on each card with either the first or the second pitch, at least one of the horizontally disposed lines being embossed with the first pitch and at least one of the horizontally disposed lines being embossed with the second pitch; and

    control means coupled to the card supply means, the recording means, the card transporting means and the plurality of card embossing means for controlling the card supply means to feed blank cards from the pickup station to the recording station, the recording of the one or more tracks of the recording medium by activating the head transporting means to the head assembly in the forward direction while the head means records the tracks, the playback of the recorded information by the head means by activating the head transporting means to move the head assembly in the reverse direction and verification that the information which was recorded is that which was desired to be recorded by comparing the played back information with stored information which was desired to be recorded, the transporting of the cards received by the card transporting means from the recording station to the separate embossing positions along the transporting path and to the position where embossing is completed and the plurality of card embossing means to emboss the plurality of lines on each blank card.

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