Universal credit card
OwnerGeorge E. Opelinventor
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Abstract
A universal credit card is disclosed that allows a purchaser to make a credit purchase and select any one of a number of pre-established credit lines to charge the purchase to. After an imprint is made from the universal card, a number corresponding to the proper credit line is manually entered onto the charge slip in an array of dots imprinted from the credit card.
Claims6
A credit card comprising:
- a rectangular card of predetermined dimensions having a front side and a back side;
- a photographic image adheringly attached to said front side;
- identification indicia embossed on said front side so as to be reproduced on an imprinted charge slip consisting of:
- a. a pre-selected number;
- and
- b. a plurality of spaced apart dot arrays adjacent said pre-selected number, wherein the spacing of said dots is predetermined so as to define, when a charge slip is imprinted, a plurality of spaced apart dot array patterns on the slip, each such pattern being suitable for entry of a character.
An improved credit card, made of plastic or similar material with transparent overlays protecting an insert and having a front side with a photo and raised numerals thereon and a back side having a strip of magnetically encoded information thereon, the improvement comprising:
- additional identification indicia embossed on said front side so as to be reproduced on an imprinted charge slip consisting of:
- a. a plurality of preselected numbers;
- and
- b. a plurality of spaced apart dot arrays adjacent said preselected numbers, wherein the spacing of said dots is predetermined so as to define, when a charge slip is imprinted, a plurality of spaced apart dot array patterns on the slip, each such pattern being suitable for entry of a character.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.