Method for imprinting multiple permutations and combinations of cards and the like on drinking cups and products manufactured thereby
US4368665A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 29, 1980 |
| Grant date | Jan 18, 1983 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 29, 2000 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB41F17/00
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A method is provided for printing games such as poker hands on two-piece frustoconical containers with four cards up and one down on the container sidewall and a hole card or draw card on the bottom of the container. The sidewalls are formed from blanks printed in a sequence by four, five, six and seven-around printing cylinders, all of which impress one card identity indicia on each printed cup blank on a strip of stock passed through the array of cylinders. A strip of bottom blanks each bearing a single card identity are printed in sequence by an eleven-around printing cylinder and the sidewall blanks and bottom blanks are assembled in the printed sequence to provide at least 4,620 cups all bearing poker hands with no two cups bearing identical hands. None of the card identity indicia on the several rolls is repeated. A total of thrity-three different indicia is used in the present method.
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