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US 5,486,897 AGranted
Decorative cards
OwnerShakar Z. Mohmandinventor
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Abstract
A decorative card is produced by duplicating a microfiche on which is provided a suitable pattern, the light sensitive side of the fiche being subsequently provided with a protective layer. In producing frames of aligned characters to form the card, a master guide strip may be provided to be used in conjunction with a strip secured to a character for use in individual frames as required.
Claims11
A method of manufacturing a card bearing an image comprising the steps of:
- a) providing an image;
- b) transferring the image to an original microfiche having a plurality of discrete frames using a microfiche duplicating apparatus including a microfilm camera, wherein the image extends over a plurality of the discrete frames, by the steps of:
- i) providing a master alignment strip on a copy board such that the master alignment strip extends across a field of the microfilm camera, the master alignment strip having opposite parallel sides bounding the width of the master alignment strip;
- ii) providing each portion of the image to appear in a single frame of the original microfiche with an image alignment strip having a width equal to the width of the master alignment strip;
- iii) aligning a portion of the image to appear in a single frame such that the image alignment strip is coincident with the master alignment strip;
- iv) photographing the aligned portion of the image onto the original microfiche;
- and,
- v) repeating steps iii) and iv) until the entire image has been transferred to the original microfiche whereby the discrete frames cooperate to form the complete image;
- c) transferring the image on the original microfiche to one side of a second microfiche which is to be viewed from an opposite side;
- and,
- d) affixing a protective layer on the one side so as to protect the transferred image.
8 more elements
A method of manufacturing a card bearing a decorative image, comprising the steps of:
- transferring the decorative image to one side of a microfiche, which is to be viewed from the other side, wherein the decorative image is transferred to the microfiche by a microfiche duplicating apparatus from an original microfiche, and wherein the original microfiche has thereon a plurality of discrete frames, each frame containing a portion of the complete decorative image, and the frames, cooperate to form the complete image;
- and affixing a protective layer to said one side so as to protect the transferred image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.