Name badge with digitally produced image thereon
AssigneeContemporary, Inc.
InventorJames P. Peterson
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Abstract
A uniquely shaped plate may be transmitted through a card printer designed to print on only a card having a standard size and shape. The plate includes a laminate including a card having a sheet of backing material affixed thereto, preferably by an easy release adhesive. For example, the card may have a backing, such as release paper. If the plate is a flexible material, the backing material is a rigid sheet. The standard card is kiss cut through its thickness to form segments having contours for making said unique shape. However, the kiss cut does not cut the sheet of backing material, which continues to hold the segments in place. Therefore, the card retains its standard size and shape so that it may be sent through the card printer with the segments in place. Then, the segments are separated.
Claims13
A process for making plastic badges comprising the steps of:
- (a) removably applying a sheet of backing material to a plastic plate of a fixed size and shape and made of a card material, and adding a rigid base adhered to said backing material;
- (b) providing means for forming contours of a unique size and shape which is not said fixed size and shape for at least one segment of said plastic plate;
- (c) kiss cutting through the thickness of said plastic plate without cutting said sheet of backing material applied in step (a) whereby said sheet of backing material holds said segment in place in said plastic plate;
- (d) running said plate which is cut in step (c) through a card printer;
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- (e) peeling said sheet of backing material and rigid base away from said plastic plate, thereby freeing said badge segment.
A process of making plastic badges comprising the steps of:
- (a) removably applying a sheet of release backing material to the back of a plastic plate made of a card material;
- (b) providing cutting means for forming contours of a desired shape for at least one segment of said plastic plate;
- (c) using said cutting means of step (b) for kiss cutting through the thickness of said plastic plate without cutting said sheet of backing material applied in step (a) whereby said sheet of backing material holds said segment in place in said plastic plate;
- (d) forming an image on said plastic plate of card material for providing a partially customized badge for further manufacture in step (e), said step of forming of said image being carried out between steps (a) and (c);
- (e) running said plate which is cut in step (c) through a card printer;
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- (f) peeling said sheet of backing material away from said plastic plate, thereby freeing said badge segment.
A process for using card printers adapted to receive cards of a fixed size and shape for printing graphic material on a card having a unique size and shape which is not said fixed size and shape, said process comprising the steps of:
- (a) forming a laminate of card materials in said fixed size and shape with at least one layer temporarily coupled to another layer by a release means;
- (b) cutting said one layer into segments having said unique size and shape without cutting said other layer, said other layer temporarily holding said segments of said one layer in place, whereby said one layer retains said fixed size and shape;
- (c) running said card of step (b) through a card printer, said laminate comprising at least one layer of a rigid base material attached to the bottom of said laminate during step (c);
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- (d) peeling away and separating said segments from said card after it has passed through said card printer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.