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G06K 7/08 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1161292
-1- ABSTRACT DATA CARD AND MAILER DATA MATCH/INSERTER SYSTEM Thw present invention relates generally to systems for attaching data cards to pre- addressed mailing forms. Despite the massive volume of mailing of credit, identification and like cards in today's economy there has yet to have been provided an effective and efficient means for attaching such cards to mailing forms. The present invention provides an automated system for inserting data cards, e.g., charge, credit, identification and similar type cards, into preprinted and addressed mail- ing forms. A computer, with suitable operator intervention controls the automatic asynchronous operation of the overall system. Each mailing form bears the account number and mailing address of the intended card recipient, and a designation of the number of cards to be inserted. The cards are pre-embossed and encoded, and supplied in number and sequence corresponding to the requirements of the succession of forms. The forms advance in succession from a fan-fold continuous strip through a read station and into an insert station. cards are picked from the supply in individual succession and transported past a read station at which account number data is read from the card for comparison with the data of the form currently positioned in the insert station. The insert station includes a number of bins corresponding to the card insert positions on the form and is controlled to receive the proper number of -1a- correctly matched cards in the appropriate bins for the form. Should a no-match condition occur or if the corresponding number of proper cards is not satisfied, the card transport terminates to permit a visual operator check. Operator controls permit selectively rejecting cards and form where matching requirements are not met and manual overrides for correction of same and for re- initiating automated operation. Forms with the proper inserted cards are automatically burst from the strip and proceed through a folder to an output transport for stacking in sequence into an output hopper. Sensors monitor various critical functions to assure accuracy in the automated operations.
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Hewitt Donald W.
Seibel David D.
Data Card Corporation
Sim & Mcburney
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