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US 5,676,307 AGranted
Card having magnetic sheet secured to one surface and having a ramp to facilitate mailing
AssigneeCrane Productions, Inc.
InventorJohn J. Martin
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a card having magnetic sheet secured to one surface and having a ramp to facilitate mailing. The ramp helps mail properly pass through high speed postal sorting equipment, for example, so as to prevent the edge of a magnetic strip on one card from interfering with other mail to prematurely stop that other mail and cause the machine to jam, particularly when the mail is being restacked after sorting.
Claims20
A card, comprising:
- (a.) a planar blank, said planar blank having a first side and a second side, said first side being opposed to said second side;
- said planar blank further having a first section and a second section, said first section being adjacent said second section;
- (b.) a magnetic strip, said magnetic strip having an outer magnetic side and an opposed adhesive side, said adhesive side of said magnetic strip being adhesively adhered to said first side in said second section;
- and,
- (c.) means for ramping from said planar blank to said outer magnetic side of said magnetic strip, where when a mail item is passing across said first side of said card from said first section toward said second section, said ramping means facilitates said passing across.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.