Identification structure, means for, and method of production
AssigneeMarlin & Company Systems Engineers Inc.
InventorThomas J. McVittie
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Abstract
A self-destructing identification card including electrostatically deposited identification data sandwiched between two halves of a fold-over plastic card, the two halves of which are cohered to each other by a cold solvent cement, and the method of and apparatus for manufacturing the card including a television camera for taking a picture to be imprinted on the card and a cathode ray tube for providing a negative image on a freeze frame basis for imprinting on a sensitized portion of the identification card during manufacture thereof.
Claims3
Structure for producing identification cards or the like having electrostatically deposited images thereon including means for receiving an identification card and for rotating the card in a vertically oriented circle, means operably associated with the means for receiving and rotating the card for electrostatically charging the card adjacent the top of the vertically oriented circle, means for producing an electrostatic image on the charged card, means carrying an image-setting solution including particles therein having an affinity for the charged card positioned to receive the charged card having the electrostatic image thereon at the bottom of the vertically oriented circle through which the card is moved, means for passing image-setting solution over the card at the lowermost portion of the circle and means for subsequently drying the card on movement of the card toward the position in which it was received.
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