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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1996
Ronald R Garrison, Batavia, IL (US);
Janusz Szczepaniec, Willow Spring, IL (US);
Wallace Computer Services, Inc., Lisle, IL (US);
Abstract
An assembly and method for making a card intermediate in which a series of spaced apart two layer laminates are arranged with the layers in face-to-face relation with a rupturable adhesive therebetween and a first of the layers being a transparent film, advancing the laminates toward a uniting station, providing a length of imprintable material having first and second surfaces with spaced areas of release material on the first surface and advancing the length toward the uniting station, adhesively uniting in the station the first layer of the series of laminates to the length in said spaced areas with each laminate extending beyond its united areas, and diecutting the length and the first layer to provide a generally rectangular closed perimeter diecut, the diecut also having a segment terminating short of the first layer and dividing the perimeter into two equal portions with one of the portions being within the area.