As explained above, this mass is less than that of the gear wheels 246 for the embossing unit 38. 8b illustrates a front elevational view of the pickup and recording stations of the present invention. 13 is an expanded view of an eccentric mount of a horizontal card locating mechanism mounted on the drive belt of the transport unit. A belt 250 couples the motor output to a drive 259 which drives belt 248. The inclination of the receiving surface 400 from the apex 402 downward from the horizontal in the direction that the cards move through the topping station 44, prevents binding of adjacent cards during discharge because the tipping over center of apex 402 provides sufficient inertia to prevent hangups of the card being discharged with the stacked cards which could occur if the receiving surface of the tray was horizontal and in the same plane as the path of the cards through the topper 44. The tray 62 is of the same general construction as the tray of the Assignee's Model 1803 embosser. Fig. The individual data records which are processed by the present invention are read off a magnetic tape sequentially and are transmitted to the embossing and recording unit controllers. In one embodiment of the invention, the desired center to center spacing of embossing units 38 and indent printing unit 40 and the card locating pins 50 is 4 inches with the spacing between pins having a tolerance of .0127 cm ( .005 inches). The retractor 328 has a curved end which positively engages a projection 332 located on top of each punch element to insure proper withdrawal. The Data Card Model 15000 uses this type of design. The projections extend orthogonally from the direction of motion of the belt along the card transport path and engage an edge of a card at the ready station when the belt is moved after the card is positioned at the ready station to establish a horizontal reference position of the card with respect to the belt throughout embossing by the plurality of embossing units. 10 and 16, the channel 54 has a fixed lower vertical reference surface 192 of approximately one-sixteenth of an inch in width which is defined by a guideway 194 preferably milled with a slot of approximately 0.159 cm (one sixteenth of an inch) in depth, which is mounted in line on the infeed side 196 and outfeed side 198 of each embossing unit 38 and indent printer 40 and a pair of vertically pivotable guideways 210 associated with each embossing unit 36 and indent printer 40 which apply a downward force to the top edge of a card moving through the channel to force the bottom edge of the card into the slot. Credit cards have up to four lines of embossed alphanumeric characters comprised of an OCR 7 pitch account number and two or three lines of 10 pitch alphanumeric characters identifying the customer name, expiration date and optionally the customer's group affiliation and one line of 10 pitch indent printing which typically is located on the back surface. 22 and 23. As was discussed above with regard to the recording station 34, the activation of the card elevating mechanism 160 is not initiated until the programmed counter of the recording station controller has counted a number of pulses produced by the DC motor and shaft encoder 126 signifying that the head assembly 122 has moved back to its rest position after the completion of the playing back of the recorded information on the tracks 1, 2 and 3. A system in accordance with claim 18 characterized by when the comparison between the recorded characters and the characters which were desired to be recorded is not a match, the control means activates the recording means to again record the card on which all the desired characters were not recorded and again compare the recorded characters and the characters that were desired to be recorded. The axis of second section 240 is required to be only a few thousands of a centimeter (an inch) eccentric to the axis of first section 238 to provide the proper tolerance of 10.16 .0127 cm (4 .005 inches) center to center spacing between the card locating pins 50. Each pair of rollers 354, 356 and 358 has a power driven capstan 354', 356' and 358' and an idler pinch roller 354", 356" and 358". A system in accordance with claim 10 characterized by the spacing between the card engaging means being adjustable (230) to permit the spacing between successive card engaging means to be adjusted to the uniform distance. 1a and 1b respectively illustrate the front face and rear face of a conventional credit card. Fig. The encoded, embossed and topped cards are finally conveyed to the stacking station 46. As the rotation of the motor 166 continues, the notch 181 rotates back to a point of intercepting the light beam between the transmitter and receiver which causes a change in signal state of the photodetector 184 which is sensed by the master controller. One of the omitted third and fourth cam drives has a disc attached thereto utilized in the Assignee's Model 1803 embosser for generating RSHUT and ESHUT signals which are the timing signals used by the master controller for synchronously controlling the embossing units 38, indent printing unit 40 and card transport unit 42. The plurality of buffers are implemented in main memory of the master controller by pointers which point to successive blocks of memory to produce the shifting operation of data which is indicated by the arrows pointing to the right from each of the buffers 410, 416-424. 22. Wire 139 also has another bent end section which has a bevelled end, not illustrated, which contacts the top edge of the card to force it inward and downward when the head assembly 122 is positioned to the left to the point where the cam follower 142 is not engaging the top section 148 of the cam 140. 12 is a front elevational view of the top portion of the card transport unit. 21, it should be understood that each physical position that a card occupies, with the exception of the input hopper, has an assigned buffer. The card transport unit 42 has a belt 48 having a plurality of evenly spaced card locating pins 50, which project orthogonal to the direction of motion of the cards past the embossing units 38, and indent printing unit 40 having a center to center spacing equal to the center to center spacing of the embossing units and indent printing unit and which function to establish the horizontal reference position of each card in the card transport unit during embossing. A card stripper 110 is pivotably mounted in detail below. metal plates, plastic cards, Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms, e.g. Our Goods & Services Tax The drive unit 352 for the topping station 44 is described with reference to Figs. A system in accordance with claim 11 characterized by each projection being rotatably received within a recess (232) extending within the belt orthogonal to the direction of travel; and. 6 illustrates a schematic view of the processing stations of the present invention. Fig. The preferred embodiment of the embossing and recording system 30 has provision for embossing all forms of conventional credit cards having up to 4 lines of alphanumeric characters with at least two different pitches, with one pitch being 10 selectable OCR readable numeric characters, 39 selectable alphanumeric characters which are not machine readable of the other pitch, one line of printing of numeric characters of the other pitch, and magnetically recording three tracks of digitally encoded characters. When the tracks are played back by movement of the magnetic head assembly 122 in a direction opposite to the direction of recording, as described above with reference to Figs. ink-jet printers, thermal printers characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for embossing, e.g. The first system requires additional space for the separated heads which adds to the expense of the system and affects throughput. The prior art two frequency coherent phase recording process permits the played back data to generate the requisite clock signal illustrated as an input to registers 432-436 for controlling the conversion of the serial input into parallel output having a number of bits equal to the bits required to encode a character for that track. ORIGINAL CODE: 0009261, Free format text: Each register 432, 434 and 436 has a bit capacity equal to the number of bits used to encode a character on the associated track. The topping station 44 is similar to that described in Serial No.
2 are typically used with the track length of encoded characters being proportional to the number of characters. 1B illustrates the back surface 20 of the credit card of the above-referenced type which is printed with indent characters of the account number and magnetically recorded with three tracks of digitally encoded characters. AT, Date of ref document: 7 and 8, is attached to the block 68, which causes the card at the magnetic recording station 34 to be separated from the block and moved into a recess, located in a second vertical plane, where the card is held to be recorded with the one or more tracks of digitally encoded characters. Fig. A system in accordance with claim 1 characterized by: A system in accordance with claim 15 further characterized by: A system in accordance with claim 17 characterized by when the comparison between the recorded characters and the characters which were desired to be recorded is not a match, the control means causes the embossing means to be disabled from embossing characters when the card transporting means transports the card by the plurality of card embossing means. The elevation of the card from the recording station 34 to the ready station 161 is caused by a reciprocating mechanism 164 which is powered by an electric motor 166 which is controlled by the master controller. APPENDIX FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND RECORDING OF CREDIT CARDS. Preferably, the pickup station lies in a first vertical plane and the recording station lies in a second vertical plane and a mechanism is provided for forcing the card from the first plane into the second plane when the card supply mechanism feeds the card to the recording station. The card positioning mechanism 138 causes the card to be biased downward and toward the front into contact with the top edge 179 of the card elevating mechanism 160. The advantage of the gravity feed is that the embossing of the card being discharged does not initially frictionally engage the embossing of the card which has immediately been previously discharged. The gear wheels 246 and 252 are provided with sufficient mass so that their rotational inertia powers their associated units without requiring the motor 258 to have a power output necessary to supply the high power necessary only during embossing. 6 and 20. The main buffer stores a block of data records which are fed from a tape unit. Further you can also file TDS returns, generate The LRC is calculated in a manner analogous to the LRC of Fig. The width of the gear wheels 246 and 252 is chosen to be substantially greater than the width of the belt 248 which permits the vertical position of the individual embossing units 38 and indent printing unit 40 to be adjusted without requiring vertical adjustment of the common drive. THE CORRECT EFFECTIVE DATE MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE RECORDED.SCRIBED TIME-LIMIT, Free format text: 24(a)-(f). 8d, the vertical lifting member has a pair of horizontally disposed surfaces 181 which are located about 0.015 inches below the bottom surface 183 of the recess 104. The LRC is calculated in a manner analogous to the LRC of track 1 described above. 24. The punch wheel assembly 282 has a wheel 318 which is journaled in the yoke 288. The magnetic recording station 34 is illustrated in Figs. During each rotation of the drive cam 266, the lobe 268 contacts the cam follower 270 to cause it to be advanced to engage a punch indent printing element 324 to cause an indent character to be printed or to leave a blank space depending on the rotational position of the punch wheel assembly 282 as described below which is commanded by the indent printer unit controller. Figs. After verification is complete, the card is elevated from the recording station 34 by a card elevating mechanism 160 to the ready station 161 of the transport unit 42 located in a third vertical plane.
A pair of stretched springs 314 are attached at one end to the extension 304 of the yoke 288 and at the other end to a rod 316 extending through the punch member 306 orthogonal to the direction of motion during indent printing. 21 and 22 as element 410) which stores blocks of data records. The aforementioned technique of verification of the accuracy of the recording of data using two heads would have disadvantages in an embossing and encoding system for credit cards wherein individual cards are sequentially processed. The indent printer of the present invention has a simplified structure as compared to the prior art indent printers which move both the male punch elements and the anvils to print indent type characters. 1A. When the master controller is ready to accept a data record for embossing a card, it will transfer the contents of the main buffer 410 sequentially into the buffers 416-424 by the time an end of line code has been detected in all of the buffers. A system in accordance with claim 20 characterized by. 12 illustrating the details of the eccentric mount 230 of the card location pins 50 within belt 48. Save taxes with ClearTax by investing in tax saving mutual funds (ELSS) online. An appendix referred to below contains a source code listing of the preferred form of program for processing the verification function of the recorded data including the storage in parallel form and outputting for recording to the record head. Fig. As described above, the detection of the reference position (leading edge) of the card at the recording station 34 initiates the counting by the hardware counter of the recording station controller of a predetermined number of pulses produced by either pulse generator 132 or 134 to mark the recording position of the first bit of the first character of each of the tracks.
The master controller 440 of the present invention is described with reference to Fig.
The block 68 is pivotably secured to a reciprocating mechanism 70 which is described in detail below. 21. The indent printer 40 is controlled by an embosser controller. Embossing on cards is a historically evolved functionality requiring a physical impression of the details of the card to make transactions. 16a and b are a side elevational view of an indent printing unit in accordance with the present invention.
The head assembly 122 is guided by guide bar 71 which is common to the pickup mechanism 60 described above. The mechanism for engaging opposed edges of individual cards comprises a fixed card edge guiding unit extending from the ready station along the card transport path past each of the plurality of card embossing units, the fixed card edge guiding unit establishing a vertical reference position of the cards along the card transport path with respect to each of the plurality of card embossing units and engaging one of the opposed edges of the card; and a plurality of vertically movable card edge guiding units for biasing the other edge of the card downward to face the one edge against the vertical reference position, a vertically movable card edge guiding unit being associated with each of the card embossing units to bias the other of the opposed edges of the card toward the vertical reference position. Fig. The structure of the anvil in the present invention is fixed. Fig. The LRC character is an industry specification for verification of the accuracy of the recording process. The structure of card transport unit 42 has been simplified from that utilized in the Assignee's Model 1803. The relationship of the center to center spacing of the card locating pins which were carried by card gripping units attached to a belt and embossing units was an objective of the Model 1803 described above which in practice was not achievable. The information from tracks 1, 2 and 3 of the main buffer 410 is transmitted from the master controller to the recording station controller 464 described below in conjunction with Figs. The master controller 440 also controls the embosser drive motor 258 which, through belt 248, provides power for each of the inline embossing units 38 and indent printer 40. 8c. Prior to description of the present invention, it is important to understand the layout of the front and back sides of a conventional credit card such as, but not limited to, AMERICAN EXPRESS. Because the rotational velocity of cam 266 is twice that of cams 260, the single lobe 268 drives cam follower 270 synchronously and in phase with the other 10 pitch embossing units such as the second embossing unit illustrated in Fig. The belt 48 may be made from rubber, plastic or other materials. 21 illustrates the processing of the portion of a data record which is to be embossed and printed as characters. The encoded and embossed cards are moved to the topping station 44 where topping is applied in the manner utilized in the Assignee's Model 1803 embosser. A compact magnetic stripe recording station and close spacing between multiple embossing units which each emboss a different line of characters minimizes transport time of cards through the system. The counting of a predetermined total number of pulses from the shaft encoder 126 is used by the recording station controller to control the starting and stopping of the head assembly 122 for the forward and reverse strokes. LAPSE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRE;WARNING: LAPSES OF ITALIAN PATENTS WITH EFFECTIVE DATE BEFORE 2007 MAY HAVE OCCURRED AT ANY TIME BEFORE 2007. 29p and 29m of the patents act, Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo], Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent, Gb: european patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee. The requisite inertia of the gear wheel 252 is much smaller than that for gear wheels 246 for the reason that the forces during indent printing are much smaller. A system in accordance with claim 2 characterized by the card supply means feeding individual cards from a hopper (62) for holding one or more cards to be embossed at the pickup station to the recording station, the recording station being spaced from the pickup station. An electric motor drives a transmission 362 which applies power to the capstans 354', 356' and 358'. Each of the bifurcations has an extension 185 projecting upward through an aperture 187 in the bottom surface 183. Each of the registers 432, 434 and 436 performs two separate functions. With that setting, a spring is chosen with a preload which may range, for example, from 22.7 to 40.9 kg (50 to 90 lbs). Recording and playback with a single magnetic head assembly provides the most compact spacing in the magnetic recording station. Each of the characters stored in the track data buffers 426-430 is read out under control of one of the clock pulse generators 132 or 134 which are synchronized with movement of the magnetic head assembly 122. The processing of data records by the embossing units 38 and indent printer 40 is described with reference to Fig. The indent printing unit 40 is activated by a cam having one lobe driven synchronously at twice the rotational velocity of the embossing units 38 which are driven by a two lobed cam. 11 and 12 illustrate belt 48, card location pins 50 and the drive mechanism including the electric motor and shaft encoder 52 for the card transport unit 42. 23 illustrates a schematic diagram of the electrical control system of the present invention. Figs. The three track data buffers 426-430 are set up in the RAM section of the magnetic recording controller 464. The initial gap setting is changed for cards of different thickness. The belt 248 drives gear wheel 252. The drive cams 260 for the embossing units 36 have a pair of diametrically spaced lobes 262 which simultaneously engage followers 264. 3-5. Figs. Each track data buffer 426-430 has a pointer which identifies the current character being processed.The pointer for each track is augmented by one when the number of bits comprising a character has been recorded and decremented by one when the number of bits comprising a character has been played back. The stacker for the Model 1803, which collects the completed embossed cards, has a surface for receiving the embossed cards in the same horizontal plane as the transport path of the embossed cards through a topping station. phone. First, second and third track data buffers 426-430, within the recording station controller 464, respectively store the entirety of the encoded characters of each of the associated tracks which are to be recorded for each card being processed. The controller for the indent printer activates the ribbon mechanism 327 to advance fresh ribbon 325 for each new character to be indent printed. Reconcile filed returns with sales and purchase, Single click upload data through Tally connector. Fig. Fig. The master controller 440 is implemented in a programmed microprocessor. 10 and 14-17 illustrate the preferred embodiment of the indent printing unit 40 of the present invention. until all of the characters have been processed by the EXCLUSIVE OR logic function. Fig. Verification systems for recorded data are also known outside the credit card industry which use two physically separated magnetic heads which are moved in unison to perform the recording and verification process of encoded digital data. With reference to Fig. Two additional lines 16 are embossed with alphanumeric lines of characters of 10 pitch with a center to center spacing of .254 cm (1/10 of an inch). When the indent element 324 impacts the rear face of the card, the male face penetrates the surface driving the ribbon 325 into the indentation until the force exceeds the preload at which point the face 300 is deflected to limit the depth of penetration. A recording system (30) for embossing blank cards (64) with a plurality of vertically separated horizontally disposed lines (14-18) on which characters are to be embossed with at least one line being embossed with characters of a first pitch and at least one line being embossed with characters of a second pitch and for magnetically recording digitally encoded information on one or more tracks of a recording medium (22) disposed on the card having. Playback is for the purpose of verification of the accuracy of recording process by comparison of the characters actually recorded in the tracks with those which were desired to be recorded. CAs, experts and businesses can get GST ready with ClearTax GST software & certification course. That embossing system is characterized by a high throughput of embossed cards, is smaller in size than its predecessors used for embossing cards such as credit and promotional cards, has low energy consumption, low cost and high embossing accuracy. Fig. A disk 98, in conjunction with photodetector 100, provides a signal to the master controller to indicate when a complete cycle of the pickup mechanism 60 has been completed which consists of the reciprocation of the reciprocating mechanism 70 as illustrated in Fig. 7 illustrates a top view of the pickup, recording and ready stations of the present invention. A second type of system is exemplified by that disclosed in United States Patent 4,518,853 which has been utilized in the Data Card Corporation Model 300 embossing system.
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