Card Clothing wire is coated in strand form with a permanent baked on layer of polytetrafluoroethylene.

A stacker for thin and relatively stiff cards, such as IBM cards, guides successive cards travelling on an edge and is so arranged with respect to a tray that the cards fall by gravity sideways to be stacked on top of each other in an orderly stack on the bottom of the tray.

A card case comprises a receptacle having a bottom wall and a pair of upstanding sidewalls secured thereto to define a compartment for retaining business cards or the like therein. An end wall is pivotally mounted on each end of the case and linkage means connect the end walls to each other to permit them to be tilted-back simultaneously.

A device for feeding cards or like paper stock singly from a stack of such cards, in which each card is guided downwardly and fanned forwardly to bear obliquely against a circular friction means and against the next preceding card until that preceding card has passed beneath the friction means along a conveyor platform. The friction means is rotated in proportion to the linear speed of the platform and at approximately the speed of advancement of the cards being fanned forwardly.

A pair of molded plastic covers are connected along one side by a hinge, and a plurality of cards are removably mounted in an overlapping relationship on the interior surface of each of said covers. The hinge comprises a post secured in a spaced relationship from an edge of each of the covers, and a double barrel member journalled on and hingedly connecting the respective posts. The surfaces on which the cards are mounted are molded with a concave configuration to allow the overlapping cards to ...

The invention relates to a register for cards, sheets, memorandums, etc., that has a housing with a box-shaped bottom member whose upper housing cover plate is provided with a dish-shaped hollow for receiving a stack of loose sheets or cards provided with markings and having edge cut-outs in the manner of a register, and a cover which is pivotal about a horizontal axis, covers the dish-shaped hollow with the cards and is in operative connection with two-armed levers engaging the cards and depres...

A card dispenser comprising a sheet-like optical information recording member bearing a number of indicia for a card recorded thereon, positioning means for moving the recording member in the plane thereof, an optical system for projecting the indicia recorded on the recording member onto a photographic photosensitive paper, means for feeding the photographic photosensitive paper through a focussing position of the optical means, means for processing the photosensitive paper, means for controlli...

A disposable applicator card formed of an absorbent backing, to one flat surface of which one or more compressible tubes are affixed. The tubes extend beyond one edge of the backing and are disposed so as to accept a quantity of fluid therein and thereafter to dispense at least a portion of such fluid. Means for aligning the card in connection with utilization means is also provided.

A credit card utilization system. A plurality of credit cards are provided. Each credit card bears an elongate strip of sound recording material including a recorded code word known only to the owner of the card. A plurality of card reading devices for reproducing the code word recorded on said strip are also provided. The card reading devices each include a housing, an inlet slot in a first wall of the housing for receiving a credit card to be read, an outlet slot in a second wall of the housin...

An apparatus for reading a digital data word stored on a manually inserted card. The card includes a digital data word comprising a plurality of encoded characters stored on the card in the form of a two dimensional data matrix. The card reader includes a linear array of row data detection elements and an array of one or more rows of column data detection elements, each row being disposed perpendicular to the array of row data detection elements. As a card is inserted into the reader, the column...