Method for stamping information carriers
OwnerAnders Berndtsson, Franz Pitzinventors
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for stamping information carriers, in particular, card-shaped carriers, such as credit cards, identification cards, customer cards, bank cards and the like by means of two type carriers. One type carrier holds raised type and the other type carrier holds recessed type in the form of numbers and letters. The type carriers stamp the desired characters into the material of the information carrier held between the two type carriers. In the inventive method, multiple characters of at least one line are simultaneously stamped in a single stamping process. All characters in a line thereby can be stamped in a single stamping process or successively in successive stamping processes.
Claims32
Method for stamping information carriers (11 through 15), in particular card-shaped information carriers such as credit cards, identification cards, customer cards, bank cards or the like, comprising the following steps:
- providing two type carriers (23, 24), wherein a first type carrier (23) has raised type (40) and a second type carrier has corresponding recessed type (43) in the form of numbers, letters and the like;
- stamping selected characters corresponding to selected type in the form of numbers, letter and the like into a material comprising the information carrier, wherein said information carrier is held between the two type carriers (23, 24), wherein multiple characters of at least one line are simultaneously stamped in a single stamping process.
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