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Identification card inverter that maintains the card support plane

  • US 6,279,901 B1
  • Filed: 10/29/1999
  • Issued: 08/28/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/29/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A card handling mechanism for inverting a card about a central axis of the a plane of the card comprising a card support, a pair of mounting shafts, one on each side of said card support, said shafts having coincidental axes and lying along a central plane of a card support, first and second rollers rotatably mounted on the card support on opposite sides of the plane of the card support, the rollers clamping a card therebetween and driving a card when one roller is rotated about an axis, a first gear mounted on a first shaft of said pair of shafts, a second gear mounted on an end of one roller and engaging the first gear, a drive effective to drive the card support from a second of the pair of shafts to selectively rotate the card support about the axes of the shafts, the first and second gears being the same size so that the card support can rotate about the shaft axes without driving the one roller.

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