Combined medical and/or informational identification credit card
AssigneeMicroseal Corporation
InventorsThomas P. Anderson, Richard G. Bramley
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Abstract
A medical and/or informational identification credit card has multiple laminar parts partially heat-sealed in a localized area to permit high speed embossment in automatic equipment, whereupon a customized informational part, such as a microfilm chip or photograph, matched to the embossed identification on the partially laminated card may be inserted and locked in place by a full lamination of the card.
Claims11
A combined information and credit card unit comprising:
- a plurality of laminar parts made of heat-fusible plastic, said parts being selectively partially heat-fused along an area of discrete size to form a pre-laminated half and said parts being unattached along the remaining area to form an unbonded half,
- machine-imprinted indicia formed in the pre-laminated half of the card unit from a computer memory that originated such indicia, and
- a window formed along the remaining area in a laminar core to receive an information member inserted in said window, so that said unbonded half parts can be fused a substantial time after said pre-laminated half is formed to make the card unit into an integral unitary laminar whole.
For use in a medical institution, a three-part card made of heat-sealable plastic and having a pre-laminated half adapted to receive directly imprinted thereon computer-generated and correctable numbers,
- said three-part card including a core member having a window formed therein adapted to receive an informational part, said window being formed in that area of said card not part of said prelaminated half,
- whereby the card unit can thereafter be completed by heat sealing into an integral unitary laminar whole.
A combined information and credit card comprising:
- at least two laminar parts made of heat-fusible plastic and a laminar core element,
- a portion of said plastic parts being heat-fused onto said core element over a localized area of discrete size to form a pre-laminated half of a card unit for receiving indicia machine imprinted directly thereon and said core element having a window for receiving an information member inserted therein, said window being formed in that area of said core element not part of said pre-laminated half of said card unit.
For use in a medical institution, a three-part card made of heat sealable plastic and prescribing a generally rectangular body of wallet-sized configuration with the length of the card disposed symmetrically relative to a center axis,
- said three-part card including a central core laminate, a top laminate and a bottom laminate sandwiching said central core laminate therebetween, each of said three parts being sheet form members and having a discrete portion of the card on one side of the center axis partially integrally prelaminated,
- said central core laminate having a window cut-out formed in a portion thereof spaced on the opposite side of the center axis and the adjoining top and bottom laminate portions constituting initially discrete separate parts,
- a customized informational part inserted and received in said window,
- and heat bonds adapted to join said initially discrete separate parts into an integrated unitary card.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.