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Card assembly method

Details

Inventors: Bonomi, Jaime;
Assignee: Bostec Systems, Inc. (Canton, MA)
Primary Examiner: Lewis; Michael L.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks

A current assembly apparatus and associated method for producing laminated cards such as credit cards including providing means for feeding printed card sheets to a laminating station and at the same time feeding top and bottom overlay webs also to the laminating station. The top overlay web is provided with a series of parallel-disposed magnetic stripes. Means are provided for controlling the feeding of the top overlay web and the card sheets so as to feed them concurrently to form a lamination. Means are also provided for controlling the inter-positional relationship or registration between the card sheet and the overlay web to maintain a predetermined positional arrangement between the magnetic stripe and a predetermined position on the card sheet.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION To accomplish the foregoing and other objects, features and advantages of the invention, there is provided a card assembly apparatus.
This card assembly apparatus may be in the form of a machine that is adapted to construct a laminated card assembly.
This laminated card assembly may then be sectioned so as to provide individual laminated cards such as credit cards.
In accordance with the invention there is provided a stock of printed card sheets.
These are typically provided in flat sheet form and are adapted to be printed in separate individual card formats.
Means are provided for feeding the sheets one at a time to a laminating station of the machine.
There is also a source of an overlay web having arranged thereon a series of parallel-disposed magnetic stripes and means are provided for feeding this overlay web to the laminating station also.
The feeding of both the card sheets and the overlay web is carried out concurrently so as both are coupled at the same time at the laminating station so as to form a laminate structure.
There is also preferably provided a second overlay web and means for also feeding this second web to the laminating station.
One overlay web is for covering one side of the card sheet and the second overlay web is for covering the opposite side of the card sheet.
In the making of credit cards, it is desired to maintain the printing on both sides of the card covered.
The second overlay web is preferably a plain transparent web whereas, as mentioned previously, the first overlay web has the magnetic stripes disposed thereon in a parallel array.
Means are provided for controlling the inter positional relationship between the card sheet and the overlay web so as to maintain a predetermined positional arrangement between the magnetic stripe and a predetermined position on the card sheet.
In this regard, the card sheet preferably has multiple lengthwise card segments with each card segment being a series of individual cards.
The overlay web is preferably provided in a continuous roll

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