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Schmeiser, Morelle & Watts

Secure Images Inc.

Ralph C Wicker

John W O'Leary

Fredric T Morelle

John Lewis Williams

Several techniques to acquire a counterfeit proof security document. The invention includes improvements for use with non-replicable image line frequency techniques, as well as stand-along printing techniques, that exhibit electro-optical copy and photographic copy frustration characteristics such as experiences with use of color-graduated (tonally graded) substrates, blooming or flaring print patterns, pixel differentiation of discrete indicia and combinations of these with certain printing ink (or) varnish under/overcoat.

Anti-photographic/photocopy imaging process and product made by same

A method and product resulting from application of the method for making the images in nonreplicable documents. Documents that cannot be replicated by known copying machines or other replicating devices are produced according to the invention method, as well as alternative methods. All of the methods disclosed herein are instructive for making the images and art work on such documents by forming lines into various patterns in a manner imitative of intaglio or gravure printing. The pitch of the lineations is deliberately selected so as to vary minutely from the pitch of the scanning trace of various copying machines such as photocopiers, video opticons, and the like. The variation in pitch may be obtained by deliberately manufacturing the document with the desired pitch or, subsequent to the image placement therein, altering the dimensions or geometry of the document so as to effectively skew the pitch parameter.

Nonreplicable document and method for making same

A method and product, resulting from application of the method, for making images on a document that will not be replicated properly by electro-optical scanning and copying devices. Documents that cannot be replicated by known copying machines or other replicating devices are produced according to the invention method, as well as alternative methods. All of the methods disclosed herein are instructive for making the images and art work on such documents by forming lines into various patterns in a manner imitative of intaglio or gravure printing. The pitch of the lineations is deliberately selected so as to vary minutely from the pitch of the scanning trace of various copying machines such as photocopiers, video opticons, and the like. The variation in pitch may be obtained by deliberately manufacturing the document with the desired pitch or, subsequent to the image placement therein, altering the dimensions or geometry of the document so as to effectively skew the pitch parameter.

Counterfeit protected document

A secure and self-verifiable image is formed by an array of image dots 30 on one side of a pellucid stratum or film 10 and a corresponding array of light-transmitting apertures 21 in a dark screen 20 on the other side of film 10, with image dots 30 being offset from the axes of apertures 21 so that the image is viewable only by light passing obliquely through film 10 at an angle that intersects arrayed apertures 21 and dots 30. Both apertures 21 and dots 30 occupy up to about 15% of the total area and the array spacing is at least 40 dots per centimeter. The reflective density of the interaperture regions of dark screen 20 is at least 1.6, and pellucid film 10 is at least 0.05 mm thick.

Secure and self-verifiable image

A method of producing a latent photograph by using a reproduction of the photograph in both negative and positive form, photographing both negative and positive in sequence and in register through a dark screen, having extremely small apertures and angled 30.degree. and 60.degree. in respect to the upper margin, the resulting latent photograph having a visual effect of being smooth and continuous is a reflection of the size and shape of the dots, lines, or tones, of both positive and negative reproductions, but reduced in size and changed in shape by the small apertures of the dark screen when photographed at two angles 30.degree. apart through the negative and positive reproductions; the latent photographs reflect only the positive end of the photographic scale and then only in percentages of from 1/10 of a percent to 5 percent representing the dots, lines, or tones of the positive and negative reproductions which varied in percentages of from 1% to 59% being positive in nature and from 60% to 99% being negative in nature; the visible tonal range of the latent photographs are rendered invisible or latent in form by the cancellation effect of the negative and positive dots, tones, or lines photographed next to or 30.degree. from each other; to view or see the latent photographs negative or positive, the dark screen is placed over the latent picture and turned to the appropriate angle, producing a visible photo of the negative in one case and a visible photo of the positive in the other; the visible photographs are a reflective match of the original reproductions, when in reality the dots, lines, or tones on the original reproductions, had both negative and positive aspects, with percentages of from 1% to 99% whereas the combination of the latent photograph and the dark screen reflects only negative aspects with percentages of from 95% to 99 9/10%.

Latent photo system

A continuous form mailer comprised of two overlying sheets of material secured together along peripheral side edges and having a transfer material interface enabling printing through the external ply onto the internal ply and being provided with an integral return envelope portion and detachably removable invoice-receipt portion and an insertable return stub material portion. The latter portions being integral with the second of the two overlying plies. The assembly being capable of being snapped apart to separate the envelope from the invoice-receipt and return stub portions.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Ralph C Wicker