Card assembly method

• US 4,978,401 A
• Filed: 03/14/1989
• Issued: 12/18/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bostec Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Bostec Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Bonomi, Jaime
• Primary Examiner(s): Lewis, Michael L.
• Application Number:
  US07/323,494
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 156/552, 156/555, 156/522, 156/297-303, 156/362-364, 156/521, 156/277, 156/64
• US Class Current: 156/64
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2425/00 Cards, e.g. identity cards, credit cards
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2429/00 Carriers for sound or information
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 37/226 Laminating sheets, panels or inserts between two continuous plastic layers
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 38/1833 Positioning, e.g. registration or centering
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/45 Associating two or more layers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/109 Embedding of laminae within face of additional laminae

Abstract

A current assembly apparatus and associated method for producing laminated cards such as credit cards including providing means for feeding printed card sheets to a laminating station and at the same time feeding top and bottom overlay webs also to the laminating station. The top overlay web is provided with a series of parallel-disposed magnetic stripes. Means are provided for controlling the feeding of the top overlay web and the card sheets so as to feed them concurrently to form a lamination. Means are also provided for controlling the inter-positional relationship or registration between the card sheet and the overlay web to maintain a predetermined positional arrangement between the magnetic stripe and a predetermined position on the card sheet.

Claims

1. A method of assembling a laminated card, comprising the steps of;

providing a source of printed core material, feeding the core material to a laminating station, providing a source of an overlay web having arranged thereon a series of parallel-disposed magnetic stripes, feeding the overlay web to said laminating station, controlling both said aforementioned core material and web so as to feed them concurrently to form a lamination, and controlling the inter-positional relationship between the core material and overlay web to maintain a predetermined positional arrangement between the magnetic stripe and a predetermined position on the core material.

2. A method as set forth in claim 1 including providing a source of a second overlay web and feeding the second web also to the laminating station.