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Card transport mechanism and method of operation

  • US 5,920,055 A
  • Filed: 06/18/1998
  • Issued: 07/06/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/08/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A process for sequentially embossing a card with individual characters contained in a character set by rotating an embosser to a series of selected rotary positions at which individual characters of the character set are aligned with selected card positions at which the individual characters of the character set are embossed comprising:

  • sorting the set of characters to form a first ordered set containing the characters in an order of increasing distance between a reference rotary position of the embosser and a rotary position of each individual character of the first ordered set on the embosser relative to the reference rotary position;

    sorting the first ordered set to form a second ordered set having the characters in a new order in which the individual characters of the second ordered set increase in distance measured relative to the reference rotary position from a distance of the first character in the second ordered set to a distance of the last character in the second ordered set with at least some of the individual successive characters from the first character to the last character in the second ordered set not being located farther from the reference rotary position than an immediately preceding character of the second ordered set; and

    embossing the characters of the second ordered set with the embosser in an order beginning from the first character of the second ordered set successively to the last character of the second ordered set by coordinated rotary motion of the embosser and rectilinear motion of a carriage holding the card to sequentially position the embosser and card at selected rotary and rectilinear positions respectively to emboss the individual characters of the character set.

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