Verifying insertion system and apparatus
AssigneeDynetics Engineering Corporation
InventorsJames E. Hill, Baesley I. Dahlstrom, Robert D. Fisher
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Abstract
Apparatus and method of verification of credit cards, including sensing information thereon and comparing said information with information on a specially designed pre-printed carrier, followed by insertion of one or more cards in the matching carrier as required, folding and stacking card-inserted carriers in a manner ready for subsequent insertion into mailing envelopes. Sensing, input, comparison logic, and timed command circuitry for coordination of operation includes a pause mode of card advance and may optionally include a multiple card search mode to find matching cards when card sequence is improper.
Claims26
Apparatus for automatic verification and retentive engagement of a substantially ordered sequence of credit cards bearing cardholder or account information into association with a substantially ordered sequence of carriers bearing corresponding cardholder or account information, comprising:
- (a) means for reading said information on said carriers,
- (b) means for reading at least some of said information on the credit cards,
- (c) means for comparing the information read from each of said carriers with that read from each of said cards to determine if there is a matching relationship, and
- (d) means responsive to said comparing means for retainingly engaging each card after it is read into association with the carrier having a matching relationship.
Apparatus for automatic retentive engagement of credit cards bearing machine readable information into association with carriers therefor bearing machine readable information corresponding to the machine readable information on said credit cards:
- (a) a carrier station;
- (b) means for providing the carriers at said carrier station;
- (c) means at said carrier station for automatically reading at least a portion of the information on said carrier;
- (d) a credit card station;
- (e) means for providing the credit cards at said credit card station;
- (f) means at said credit card station for automatically reading at least a portion of the information on said credit cards;
- (g) means for comparing the information read at the carrier station with the information read at the credit card station to determine whether a matched condition exists;
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- (h) means responsive to existence of a matched condition between the read information on a credit card and the read information on a carrier for retainingly engaging the credit card in association with its matched carrier.
Apparatus for automatic verification and retentive engagement of credit cards in association with carriers therefor comprising:
- (a) means for providing carriers adapted to retain credit cards in association therewith;
- (b) means for providing credit cards having thereon machine readable information uniquely identifying a cardholder or account;
- (c) means for retainingly engaging the correct number of credit cards into association with each said carrier in accordance with information on the number of cards authorized for said cardholder or accounts;
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- (d) means for identifying said carrier with information uniquely identifying the cardholder or account.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.