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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1999
Keith R. Ashley, Clark, NJ (US);
David K. Giegerich, Westwood, NJ (US);
Igor Pankiw, Hillside, NJ (US);
Philip M. Roth, Budd Lake, NJ (US);
Card Technology Corporation, Paramus, NJ (US);
Abstract
The invention is an embossing system, embosser and indent imprinter and method of operation thereof. The invention includes a plurality of stations ( and ) including an embossing station ( ); a carriage ( ) for holding an item ( ) to be processed by the system at the plurality of stations including the embossing station; a carriage transport ( ) which moves the carriage while holding the item to be processed along a plurality of spaced apart transport paths; and wherein at least one station is disposed on each of the plurality of transport paths and the carriage transport moves the carriage holding the item along the plurality of transport paths to each of the plurality of processing stations at which processing is performed on the item.