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Patent US6173896 - Numbered data carriers and a method for production thereof - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inAdvanced Patent SearchPatentsA numbered data carrier and method for producing the same, wherein the data carrier includes a document of value and at least one security element having a serial number that individualizes the data carrier out of a series of data carriers. The security element includes first and second parts. The first...http://www.google.com/patents/US6173896?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6173896 - Numbered data carriers and a method for production thereofAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS6173896 B1Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 09/154,984Publication dateJan 16, 2001Filing dateSep 17, 1998Priority dateSep 17, 1997Fee statusLapsedAlso published asCA2247596A1, CA2247596C, DE19740920A1, EP0906834A2, EP0906834A3, EP0906834B1, EP0906834B2Publication number09154984, 154984, US 6173896 B1, US 6173896B1, US-B1-6173896, US6173896 B1, US6173896B1InventorsGerhard M{umlaut over (u)}rlOriginal AssigneeGiesecke & Devrient GmbhExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (19), Referenced by (5), Classifications (11), Legal Events (5) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetNumbered data carriers and a method for production thereofUS 6173896 B1Abstract A numbered data carrier and method for producing the same, wherein the data carrier includes a document of value and at least one security element having a serial number that individualizes the data carrier out of a series of data carriers. The security element includes first and second parts. The first part of the security element partly represents the serial number and the second part of the security element represents the serial number either partly or completely. The security element is applied on the document.
To increase forgyey-proofness and to identify docunents such as bank notes, checks, ID cards, credit cards or the like one applies consecutive numberings to these documents, usually printing this so-called �serial number� on the completed data carrier. This printed serial number individualizes the data carrier, i.e. gives it an individual and unique feature clearly identifying the data carrier out of a series of otherwise identical data carriers.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The invention is thus based on the problem of providing numbered documents with a security element which, firstly, ensures individualization of the single documents out of a series of documents and, secondly, improves the forgery-proofliess of the numbered documents.
The term �figures� in the context of this invention refers to be all characters or symbols, in particular also letters, which are suitable for rendering a serial number.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Further advantages and advantageous embodiments of the invention will result from the figures described in the following, which in the interests of clarity are not true-to-scale:
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 schematically shows eight adjacent figure blocks 18 of first figure sequence 10 from a first numbering machine and eight adjacent figure blocks 20 of second figure sequence 12 of a second numbering machine. On individual figure blocks 18, 20 figure blocks with FIGS. 16 and figure blocks with blind numbering 14 are provided alternatingly in figure sequence 10. In second figure sequence 12 belonging to a second numbering apparatus, figure blocks 20 bear FIGS. 17 at the places where figure sequence 10 has blind FIGS. 14, while blind FIGS. 15 of figure sequence 12 are accordingly provided at the places where FIGS. 16 are provided in sequence 10. The first and second numbering machines are provided in a numbering station for numbering documents in such a way that figure sequence 10 is printed on the document first. Positionally accurate guidance of the document within the numbering station relative to the second numbering machine makes it possible to provide the document with the second figure sequence m exact register, the second figure sequence being applied to the document in the present case in such a way that the complete serial number, consisting of a combination of FIGS. 16 of first figure sequence 10 and FIGS. 17 of second figure sequence 12, is applied to the document. The position of the security element composed of the figures of first figure sequence 10 and second figure sequence 12 is freely selectable on the document.
In a preferred embodiment, which is shown in FIG. 2, FIGS. 16 of first figure sequence 10 and FIGS. 17 of second figure sequence 12 are applied to data carrier 22, for example a bank note, so as to be located on a common straight base line. Serial number 24 is applied with the aid of two numbering machines which each contain a blind numbering. This serial number then constitutes the security element consisting of two parts. The first part represents the serial number incompletely, consisting for example of the figure sequence �A 6 4 1�. The second part likewise represents the applied serial number incompletely, consisting in this example of the figure sequence �7 5 3 2�. The two parts of the security element are applied to the bank note in such a way that the individual figures from the two numbering machines follow each other alternatingly and together to form complete the serial number 24. Since different numbering machines are used for applying the two parts, it is possible to produce serial number 24 on document 22 which, as indicated in the present example, altematingly has different colors for the individual figures of the serial number if the two numbering machines are colored differently. Since each numbering machine is usually inked with only one color, the figures printed by one numbering machine have the same color.
In a further embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the first part of security element 28 representing the serial number incompletely and consisting for example of the figure sequence �7 6 5 4 3 1 2� is combined with the second part of security element 30 in such a way that the positionally accurate arrangement of the two parts of security element 28 and 30 causes the first part of security element 28 to be supplemented by the first figure (�A�) of the second part of security element 30 to form the complete serial number. To attain this, one provides first and second numbering machines in the numbering apparatus, the first numbering machine having the serial number incompletely, i.e. a blind figure being inserted at one place, in the present case at the first place. The second numbering machine is executed in the present case as a vertical numbering machine and comprises the complete serial number without blind numbering. The document is then guided within the numbering station in such a way that after application of the first part of security element 28 the second part of security element 30 is applied to bank note 22 in an accurate position, so that first part 28 is supplemented by a figure of second part 30 to form the complete serial number.
The same applies to the embodiment shown in FIG. 5, which shows that the first part of security feature 28 can be supplemented by placing the second part of security element 30 basically any place on the data carrier 22. In the example according to FIG. 5, the figure sequence �A 7 6 5 4 3 1� is supplemented on document 22 by the last figure �2� of the second part of security feature 30 to form the complete serial number.
In a further embodiment, bank note 22 is shown in FIG. 8 as a data carrier having the inventive security element. As the first part of security element 42 the figure sequence �3 1 2� is shown, being integrated into graphic element 44 in the present case. As the second part of security element 40 the complete serial number is applied to the data carrier. First part 42 and second part 40 together form the security element, first part 42 representing only part of the complete serial number. In the present example, first part 42 represents the last three figures of the serial number, so that these can be provided on the data carrier for example as additional check figures, thereby considerably impeding imitation of the data carrier. This holds true in particular when these check figures are integrated into an element which is difficult to imitate graphically. Although first part 42 of the security element represents the last three figures of the serial number in the present example, it is also possible to provide a single figure of the serial number or any, even noncontiguous, figure sequence of the serial number at any place on document 22 and to use this as a check number. In this case, the first part of the security element forms a check number which is individual only for a certain number of documents and whose correctness can immediately be recognized by comparison with the second part of the security element.
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