Method and device for putting together and assembling card plates and card racks

US6629006B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Bowe Systec GmbH · DE

Inventor

• Karlheinz Weinmann · Deggendorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 1999
• Grant date: Sep 30, 2003
• Expiry date: Dec 17, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06K17/00
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

In a method and an apparatus for bringing together and joining plastic cards, which are provided with an identification mark, and printed card carriers associated with the respective plastic cards, data sets with identification marks, which are associated with the plastic cards, are first provided and each data set has associated therewith a print job number. The plastic cards and the printed card carriers, which have a print job number printed thereon, are provided in a presorted sequence and the identification mark of a plastic card and the print job number of a card carrier are detected. On the basis of the data set provided, the plastic card, whose identification mark has been read, has associated therewith a print job number, whereupon it is determined on the basis of this print job number whether the plastic card which is about to be joined and the card carrier match one another. If this is the case, the plastic card and the card carrier are brought together and joined.