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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 1990
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1988
Raymond J Melling, Overton, GB;
Malcolm R Knight, Basingstoke, GB;
Portals Limited, Basingstoke, GB;
Abstract
Security papers according to the invention comprise opposed surfaces for the provision of printing to identify a document formed from the paper, and positioned at least partially between the two surfaces of the paper as a public security feature a security device of not more than 5 mm width, which device comprises a flexible, water-impermeable substrate with a layer of metal on one or both sides of the substrate, there being present on one side of the device a continuous metal path along its length, wherein said device has metal-free portions of between 10% and 50% of the area of the device, said metal-free portions along the length of the device providing a repeating pattern, design, indicia or the like with at least some of the metal-free portions across the tranverse direction of the device being wholly surrounded by metal. The metal-free portions may provide characters of a language, such as letters of the English alphabet. The security device may be a strip or thread and this may be positioned in a window, or in an aperture where two windows are impartial or complete register.