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Card package production system with burster and carrier verification apparatus

US5433364A · kind A · utility

17Cited by
17References
18Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateNov 10, 1994
Grant dateJul 18, 1995
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Expiry dateNov 10, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T225/321
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An embossed card package production system (10) with a printer (48) supplied with a plurality of interconnected card carrier forms (26) for receipt of corresponding cards (30) inserted into the carriers at a card inserting apparatus (24) to form card packages, a form bursting apparatus (36) having a cutting member (240) with a cutting portion tautly extending between and partially wrapped about a pair of rotary members (242) and (244), a drive motor (248) interconnected with a chain linkage (250) for moving the cutting member (240) across preweakened lines (252) through and across end ones (26A) of the interconnected card carrier forms (26) to separate individual card carrier forms (26A) from the interconnected card carrier forms, a code sensor (38) mounted to an elongate sliding bar (290) for reading machine readable indicia (231) printed on the body of the carrier form (26) in back and forth directions opposite directions across the end ones (26A) of the interconnected carrier forms (26) as the forms are separated by the movement of the cutting member (240).

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