A commemorative card is formed from water impervious or water resistant material and is provided with means for mounting at least one fresh or artificial flower thereon. Where the card is to carry a fresh flower or flowers, means for supplying moisture to the flower or flowers, such as a water-retentive hard foamed plastics material, may be provided to keep the flower or flowers fresh. The water retentive material may be mounted in a pocket or recess formed at the rear of the card, the flower st...

Edge notches of various depths in circuit boards correspond with slots of various depths in a card guide so that the boards are not interchangeable.

A card includes a magnetic track portion, a first bar code area, and a second bar code area. Value information representing a prepaid amount and management information for card management are magnetically recorded in the magnetic track portion. The first bar code area is formed parallel to the magnetic track portion at a position not overlapping the magnetic track portion. The first bar code area is recorded with a first bar code representing the value information. The second bar code area is fo...

A card includes a magnetic track portion on which value information representing a prepaid amount and one of serial number data consecutively assigned in an issuance order are magnetically recorded, and a serial number printing portion in which a number representing the serial number data is marked with a laser beam. A card issuing apparatus includes a recording/reproducing unit and a laser marking unit. The recording/reproducing unit magnetically records value information representing a prepaid...

A codeable card includes a coding area formed on one side of a card body and having a number of opaque elements to be removed for coding number. A cover layer has portion secured to the card body and has the other portion secured to the coding area before the opaque elements are removed. The other portion of the cover layer is protected with a removable layer which is removed before the other portion of the cover layer is secured to the card body. The users may easily code the required number be...

An apparatus for holding and securing a plurality of playing cards includes a base, first and second side members coupled to opposite ends of the base and extending upwardly therefrom, and card retention means supported above the base by the first and second side members for engaging and securing the playing cards continuously along the front and back surfaces thereof. The card retention means includes a longitudinal groove in the upper surface of the base between the first and second side membe...

A logic card comprises a printed circuitboard equipped with integrated modules, a plug connector and a contact pressure component, for example, a cooling device, which exerts a pressure against a surface of the printed circuitboard. In order to prevent sag of the printed circuitboard which could result by the contact pressure component, or to prevent line ruptures and the like caused by plug-in and pulling events, a counterpressure is generated against the printed circuitboard and an elastic con...

Identification card, including a card body, an integrated semiconductor circuit being mechanically inserted and protected in the card body for storing data to be read-out and read-in in changed form, a receiving antenna device, a rectifier circuit connected to the receiving antenna device, a filter circuit connected between the rectifier circuit and the integrated semiconductor circuit. The rectifier and filter circuits generate a supply voltage for the integrated semiconductor circuit from an e...

A card frame for housing electrical circuitry mounted on cards comprises end plates (10) separated by front and rear cross rails (12, 14) that mount card-guides (16) in which the cards can slide. Each card guide (16) comprises end elements (28a, 28b) engageable with the front and rear cross rails (12, 14) in first and second positions (FIG. 1 and FIG. 2) spaced in both the top-to-bottom and front-to-rear directions of the card frame. Each card guide (16) additionally comprises a shank (30) forme...

There is disclosed a low cost manually-operated compact card reader for reading magnetically or similarly encoded record cards or the like, the reader including a guide support assembly for guiding and supporting a manually inserted card, a carriage slidably mounted on the support assembly and engaged by the inserted card for movement thereby to an actuated position, an energy storing drive member secured to the carriage and operated by the movement of the carriage to said actuated position to r...