Blanks for microfilm insertions

• US 5,928,758 A
• Filed: 05/15/1998
• Issued: 07/27/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Micro Film Cards, LLC
• Original Assignee: Micro Film Cards, LLC
• Inventors: Huguet, Rafael R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Watkins, III, William P.
• Application Number:
  US09/079,294
• Time in Patent Office: 438 Days
• Field of Search: 428/137, 428/138, 428/131, 428/136, 40/703, 40/709, 353/120, 283/76
• US Class Current: 428/138
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/00 Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof printing processes to produce identification or security features B41M3/14
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/23 Identity cards
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/309 Photographs
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/351 Translucent or partly translucent parts, e.g. windows
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/45 Associating two or more layers
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/47 using adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/64 Means for mounting individual pictures to be projected, e.g. frame for transparency
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24273 including aperture
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24314 Slit or elongated
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24322 Composite web or sheet
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24331 including nonapertured component

Abstract

A card blank for identification cards and the like that include a microfilm with predetermined information to be read by a common utensil such as a magnifying glass or a microscope. The card includes two sheets that joined together at predetermined areas and include each a window with similar dimensions and in alignment. The microfilm is positioned between the two sheets exposing most of its area with information. The edges of the microfilm are sandwiched by the two sheets defining a peripheral wall around the windows. One of the embodiments contemplates the use of a slot in one of the sheets with a peripheral pocket surrounding the windows. This allows the ready insertion of the microfilm. Another embodiment includes a flexible second sheet that folds back permitting a user to bring one straight edge of the microfilm in abutting contact with an interface line thereby readily positioning the microfilm so that a substantial portion of its information is exposed. A lamination film is subsequently placed over the sheets to protect the microfilm.

Claims

1. A blank card, comprising:

A) a first sheet member having a first inner surface and a first outer surface and a first pre-cut window;

B) a second sheet member having a second inner surface and a second outer surface, and a second pre-cut window, and further including adhesive means for joining said first and second inner surfaces to each other at predetermined areas except first and second portions on said first and second inner surfaces, respectively, defining interface lines adjacent to said first and second pre-cut windows, said first and second pre-cut windows being in cooperative alignment with each other and being located within said first and second portions, respectively, and said second sheet member further including a slot positioned relatively close to said second window wherein said first and second portions lack said adhesive means and are coplanarly disposed with respect to said first and second inner surface respectively so that a peripheral pocket is defined around said first and second pre-cut windows; and

C) a microfilm sheet, having a peripheral edge, insertable within said slot and having cooperative dimensions that are larger than said first and second windows so that when positioned within said first and second sheet members a substantial portion of said microfilm is exposed through said windows and the rest of said microfilm is sandwiched between said first and second sheet members inside said peripheral pocket.

2. The blank card set forth in claim 1 wherein said first and second windows have a substantially rectangular shape with first, second, third and fourth sides, and said slot being positioned at a spaced apart and parallel relationship with respect to said first side.

3. The blank card set forth in claim 2 wherein said peripheral pocket has a substantially similar and larger dimensions than said windows defining an interface line and said microfilm having similar and larger rectangular dimensions than said windows and smaller than said peripheral pocket, and said microfilm and peripheral pocket also being defined, respectively, by first, second, third and fourth sides, so that when inserted through said slot, said first side of said microfilm is abutting the side of said peripheral pocket that is the farthest away from said slot.

4. The blank card set forth in claim 3 wherein the dimensions of said peripheral pocket, said microfilm and said first and second windows is preselected to permit a predetermined portion of said microfilm to be exposed when said first side of the microfilm comes in abutment contact with said side of the peripheral pocket that is the farthest away from said slot.

5. The blank card set forth in claim 4 further including:

D) a lamination film covering at least said microfilm exposed through said first and second windows.

6. The blank card set forth in claim 1 wherein said first and second sheet members are symmetrical and include each first and second ends, said first ends being integrally joined together.

7. A blank card, comprising:

A) a first sheet member having a first inner surface and a first outer surface and a first pre-cut window;

B) a second sheet member having flexibility characteristics, a second inner surface and a second outer surface, and a second pre-cut window, and further including adhesive means for joining said first and second inner surfaces to each other at predetermined areas except first and second portions on said first and second inner surfaces, respectively, defining interface lines adjacent to said second pre-cut window, said first and second pre-cut windows being in cooperative alignment with each other and located in said first and second portions, respectively, wherein said first and second portions lack said adhesive means and are coplanarly disposed with respect to said first and second inner surface, respectively so that a peripheral pocket is defined around said first and second pre-cut windows; and

C) a microfilm sheet, having a peripheral edge with at least one straight edge and having cooperative dimensions that are larger than said first and second windows so that when positioned within said first and second sheet members with said straight edge abutting against said interface line a substantial portion of said microfilm is exposed through said windows and the rest of said microfilm is sandwiched between said first and second sheet members inside said peripheral pocket.

8. The blank card set forth in claim 7 wherein said first and second windows have a substantially rectangular shape with first, second, third and fourth sides.

9. The blank card set forth in claim 8 wherein the dimensions of said microfilm and said first and second windows is preselected to permit a predetermined portion of said microfilm to be exposed when said first side of the microfilm comes in abutment contact with said interface line.

10. The blank card set forth in claim 9 further including:

E) a lamination film covering at least said microfilm exposed through said first and second windows.

11. The blank card set forth in claim 10 wherein said first and second sheet members have a substantially rectangular shape with four sides each and one of the sides of said first and second sheet being commonly shared making said first and second sheet an integral unit.

12. The blank card set forth in claim 11 wherein said first and second windows have a substantially rectangular shape with first, second, third and fourth sides.

13. The blank card set forth in claim 12 wherein said peripheral pocket has a substantially similar and larger dimensions than said windows defining an interface line and said microfilm having similar and larger rectangular dimensions than said windows and smaller than said peripheral pocket, and said microfilm and peripheral pocket also being defined, respectively, by first, second, third and fourth sides.

14. The blank card set forth in claim 13 wherein the dimensions of said peripheral pocket, said microfilm and said first and second windows is preselected to permit a predetermined portion of said microfilm to be exposed when said first side of the microfilm comes in abutment contact with said first side of the peripheral pocket.