A card game in which a plurality of cards are employed each having thereon a plurality of indicia locations arranged to form rows and columns. In each set of cards, two or more sets making up a deck, one card of the set has an opaque indicia at a location different from every other card in that set. The remaining indicia locations on each card are transparent. In playing the game cards are drawn and placed in overlying relationship the object being to get a predetermined pattern of opaque indici...

A novelty greeting card having front and rear panels hingedly connected by a spine section of finite width. A block having a thickness equal to the width of the spine and the same area as the back panel is secured to the front face of the back panel. A well formed in the central portion of the block and contains a dog biscuit.

A data card wherein various data are recorded with a fluorescent material which emits infrared rays when excited by infrared rays is disclosed. The data card according to this invention has such merit that it is very effective for the preservation of secrecy and the prevention of forgery, that it is not affected by stains, that different information can be recorded thereon one over the other, and that it can be read by an extraordinarily compact reader.

A greeting card having a front leaf, a center leaf and a rear leaf is formed of a single piece of paper folded into quarters and cut at the upper edge of the center leaf, enabling the center leaf to move from a position where it overlies the rear leaf to a position where it overlies the front leaf. Pictorial material on the center leaf has the same shape and location as pictorial material on the underlying leaves; and, the center leaf has transparent cutouts which expose textual or pictorial mat...

A card box for storing cards or the like includes a tray-like rectangular box member for storing cards and movable, tiltable supports which can be inserted into a series of holes or recesses provided lengthwise and widthwise along the edges of the bottom of the box. Pins at the opposite ends of the lower edges of the supports fit into the holes so that the supports can be located in differing positions lengthwise and widthwise of the box member permitting the cards to be stored lengthwise or wid...

A head assembly moving along a long side of a magnetic card, more than one magnetic head rotating in the head assembly for reading/writing data, a rotary transformer and a carriage with a card holding mechanism for keeping a card at a predefined position are provided in a card reader of the present invention. A rotating part of the rotary transformer in the head assembly receives and sends a signal to the magnetic head and a fixing part of the rotary transformer is connected to a reading/writing...

Each semiconductor chip included in an information card according to this invention is enclosed in a metallic casing and roofed by a cover film. A conductor strip, extending from each of contacts of the semiconductor chip, is attached to the metallic casing through an insulative material. An electrically conductive elastic member having a magnet at its free end is provided in the metallic casing at a location corresponding to the conductor strip. When the conductor strip is not in contact with i...

The authorization card has one or more storing zones for storing a predetermined information defining the type and/or extent of authorization, for example credit information in case of a credit card, and at least one storing zone for storing variable information associated with the owner of the card. These storing zones are adapted for automatic reading of the fixed and variable information in an automatic reading device. The authorization card has means for generating a coded information to be ...

A card holder for housing, for example, plastic patient identification cards which have on them vital patient information and tabbys, i.e., tabs which have on them room or bed numbers and which normally are adhesively affixed to the card holder is fabricated of metal, preferably stainless steel, and is of a size substantially corresponding to the size of the identification card to be removably supported by it. Being of metal, the useful life of the card holder is far greater than those of plasti...

A carding machine has a carding cylinder, a lickerin cooperating with the carding cylinder and defining a corner zone therewith and a card screen extending underneath the carding cylinder including the corner zone. The card screen has a screen face which is oriented towards the carding cylinder and which has a throughgoing slot in the vicinity of the corner zone. The slot extends over the screen width and constitutes the sole discontinuity in the screen face.