Embossed card package production system with verification system and method

• US 6,467,687 B1
• Filed: 11/15/1994
• Issued: 10/22/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dymetics Engineering Corporation Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Dymetics Engineering Corporation Incorporated
• Inventors: Hill, Jeffrey L., Hill, Gregory S., Bretl, Robert J., Kassabian, Fred J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Michael G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): FRANKLIN, JAMARA ALZAIDA
• Application Number:
  US08/340,268
• Time in Patent Office: 2,898 Days
• Field of Search: 235/380, 235/435, 235/448, 235/449
• US Class Current: 235/448
• 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 25/369 Magnetised or magnetisable materials
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/425 by deformation, e.g. embossing
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/48 Controlling the manufacturing process
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/485 by electronic processing means
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 5/027 Sheets or cards attached to a carrier strip or web shipping forms B42D15/006
• CPC Class Codes: B43M 3/045 for envelopes with only one flap
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/1914 Cards, e.g. telephone, credit and identity cards
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 39/14 Associating sheets with webs
• CPC Class Codes: C07D 498/10 Spiro-condensed systems
• CPC Class Codes: C07F 7/21 Cyclic compounds having at least one ring containing silicon, but no carbon in the ring
• CPC Class Codes: C08G 77/388 containing nitrogen
• CPC Class Codes: C09D 183/08 containing silicon bound to organic groups containing atoms other than carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/23 Photochromic filters
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 5/00 Methods or arrangements for verifying the correctness of markings on a record carrier; Column detection devices

Abstract

An embossed card package production system with a computer controller (12) for accessing embossed card information in a card data memory (40) and embosser (20) for embossing a card (30) with the stored embossed information and an embossed card verification system with an embossed card character reader (70) for reading embossed information (32) on the card with the computer controller comparing the read embossed information on the card (30) with the stored embossed information for the card in the card data memory (40) to determine if there is a match and automatically identifies each card which has embossed information on the card which does not match the stored information on the card to reject each card identified as being incorrectly produced.

Claims

1. In an embossed card production system having means for storing embossed card information apart from a card to be used to emboss the card, means for accessing stored embossed card information used to produce the card and means for embossing the card with the stored embossed card information, the improvement being an embossed card verification system comprising:

means for automatically reading the embossed information on the card;

means for comparing the automatically read embossed information on the card with the stored embossed information which is stored apart from the card and is used to produce the card to determine if there is a match; and

means responsive to the comparing means for automatically identifying each card for which the information embossed on the card does not match the stored embossed information for the card.

2. The embossed card production system of claim 1 in which said identifying means includes means for rejecting each identified card from a line of correctly embossed cards.

3. The embossed card production apparatus of claim 1 in which

a magnetic stripe reader reads embossed card identification encoded on a magnetic stripe on the card, and

said embossed card verification system includes means for comparing information read from the magnetic stripe with the read embossed card information to determine if there is a match.