Facsimile security system
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1. A security system for a facsimile document, comprising:
- a base sheet capable of having confidential information printed thereon for sending by a facsimile process; and
a cover sheet laminated to said base sheet, said cover sheet having a plurality of sections with imprinted lines spaced from one another and forming an obscuring pattern in a repeated arrangement over the confidential information printed thereon and said imprinted lines being separated by portions of said cover sheet without imprinted lines also formed in a repeated arrangement.
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Abstract
A facsimile security system includes a base sheet capable of having confidential information thereon and a cover sheet with imprinting thereon for obscuring the confidential information on the base sheet. The imprinting comprises lines in a repeated pattern over the cover sheet and the lines are separated by spaces without imprinting which spaces extend across the cover sheet or in an elongated direction of the cover sheet. The spaces may extend in a diagonal direction on the cover sheet or the spaces may extend only partially across the cover sheet in a repeated pattern. The cover sheet is preprinted in a preferred form of the invention.
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1. A security system for a facsimile document, comprising:
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a base sheet capable of having confidential information printed thereon for sending by a facsimile process; and a cover sheet laminated to said base sheet, said cover sheet having a plurality of sections with imprinted lines spaced from one another and forming an obscuring pattern in a repeated arrangement over the confidential information printed thereon and said imprinted lines being separated by portions of said cover sheet without imprinted lines also formed in a repeated arrangement. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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5. A method of obscuring confidential information printed on a document transmitted by a facsimile process, comprising the steps of:
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providing a base sheet having such confidential information printed thereon; and covering said base sheet by laminating said base sheet with a cover sheet having a plurality of sections with imprinted lines thereon spaced from one another to form a pattern in a repeated arrangement for obscuring said confidential information, said sections being separated by portions of said cover sheet without imprinted lines also formed in a repeated arrangement. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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