Card assembly apparatus
First Claim
1. Card assembly apparatus for producing a laminated card comprising;
- a stock of printed card sheets,means for feeding the sheets one at a time to a laminating station, the means for feeding including conveyor table means to transfer the sheets from the stock to the lamination station and to guide and retain the sheets in a direction transverse to a feeding direction as the sheet is transferred,a source of an overlay web having arranged thereon a series of parallel disposed magnetic stripes,means for feeding the overlay web so as to form a lamination with the sheets,and means for altering the position, in a direction transverse to the feeding direction, of the conveyor table means in response to the positioning of one of the magnetic stripes so that each of the stripes is overlaid in alignment with a predetermined transverse position on each of the card sheets as the sheets are fed from the conveyor table means to the laminating station.
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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.
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21 Claims
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1. Card assembly apparatus for producing a laminated card comprising;
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a stock of printed card sheets, means for feeding the sheets one at a time to a laminating station, the means for feeding including conveyor table means to transfer the sheets from the stock to the lamination station and to guide and retain the sheets in a direction transverse to a feeding direction as the sheet is transferred, a source of an overlay web having arranged thereon a series of parallel disposed magnetic stripes, means for feeding the overlay web so as to form a lamination with the sheets, and means for altering the position, in a direction transverse to the feeding direction, of the conveyor table means in response to the positioning of one of the magnetic stripes so that each of the stripes is overlaid in alignment with a predetermined transverse position on each of the card sheets as the sheets are fed from the conveyor table means to the laminating station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system for producing a laminated card sheet having a plurality of card cores thereon, each of the cores including a magnetic stripe, comprising:
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means for storing a plurality of card stock sheets each having a plurality of card cores thereon, the cores being oriented in rows aligned in a feeding direction and transverse columns; conveyor table means to transfer each of the sheets in sequence in the feeding direction from the means for storing to a laminating station while retaining the sheets stationarily in a direction transverse the feeding direction; means for directing, in the feeding direction, a substantially transversely stationary overlay web to the lamination station, the overlay web including a series of parallel disposed magnetic stripes positioned in the feeding direction so as to each correspond to one of the rows of credit card cores upon each of the sheets; and means for transversely repositioning the conveyor table means in response to detection of the transverse position of at least one of the magnetic stripes so that each of the sheets is aligned to converge with the overlay web, each of the magnetic stripes being positioned at a predetermined transverse location upon each of the rows of card cores as each of the sheets is transferred from the conveyor table means to the laminating station. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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