US 5,080,748 · Granted 1992-01-14
Card assembly apparatus
A current assembly apparatus and associated method for producing laminated cards such as credit cards including providing means for feeding printed card sheets to a laminating station and at the same time feeding top and bottom overlay webs also to the laminating station. The top overlay web is provided with a series of parallel-disposed magnetic stripes. Means are provided for controlling the feeding of the top overlay web and the card sheets so as to feed them concurrently to form a lamination. Means are also provided for controlling the inter-positional relationship or registration between the card sheet and the overlay web to maintain a predetermined positional arrangement between the magnetic stripe and a predetermined position on the card sheet.
Patent details
- Publication number
- US 5,080,748
- Filing date
- 1990-08-21
- Grant date
- 1992-01-14
- Assignee
- Bostec Systems, Inc.
- Inventor(s)
- BONOMI; JAIME
- CPC class
- B32B37/226
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