Patent ID: 6156407
Filing Date: 2000-12-05
Classification: G06K,G11B,Y10T

Abstract:
A cleaning card for a magnetic track and chip card writing/reading device, said card comprising a card-shaped carrier (2;38), which carrier is partially coated with a soft cleaning material (6) arranged on at least two flat pre-given surface areas (40,42,44) of the carrier (2;38), the cleaning material (6) consisting of a fiber flock with individual fibers (6') tightly packed and extending generally perpendicularly from the carrier (2;38), the fibers being adhesively bonded to the carrier and being of pre-given length and pre-given diameter, and the length of the individual fibers of the fiber flock cleaning material (6) on at least one of the pre-given surface areas (40,42,44) on one or the other of the sides of the card being different from the length of the individual fibers on the other surface areas, with the individual fibers on the different surface areas being of the same or different diameters.