Apparatus and method for determining which of a plurality of molds produced a particular bottle and a bottle coded in a manner suitable for identification by the apparatus of the invention. A non-digital identification code is molded into a bottle while it is formed in a mold. As a preferred embodiment, the code is an octal code imposed as a series of protuberances in the bottom of a glass container. The bottle is presented at an identification station, and the image of the identification indici...

An identification band has a receptacle for receiving a series of detached or detachably joined labels and dispensing structure for dispensing the labels one at a time. The method includes providing a plurality of labels with indicia including coded identification and placing the labels in an identification band. When the band is attached to a patient and object or the like, the labels may be serially detached and/or removed from the band, and affixed to a secondary object to identify the object...

The card has means for protection against forgery and unauthorized use, and comprises a laminated structure consisting of an outer base layer, an intermediate layer and an outer cover layer. The base layer is a supporting layer of relatively thick transparent foil material providing the necessary durability, rigidity and a portion of the desired thickness of the card. The intermediate layer comprises special paper having zones of respectively different thickness distributed therein and discernab...

An identification combination comprising a band adapted to be fitted about the wrist, leg, neck or the like of a patient or about an object and further including a tether strap attached to or adapted to be attached to an encodable identification device and to the band so that the identification device can be held away from the patient for transfer of information therefrom without removing the identification device from the patient.

In an identification assembly of the type having an elongated flexible band with fastening means for locking to the limb of a patient wherein the improvement comprises the addition thereto of an identification label dispenser holding a plurality of patient identification labels, with the dispenser including means for holding the labels so that no label can be added without resultant indication thereof. All but one of the labels are removably held and removal thereof requires a pulling force whic...

Identification cards including I. D. credit cards comprising a sheet material bearing a photographic image pattern preferably prepared by diffusion transfer processes. A portion of the photographic image pattern provides a security feature and comprises a partial or imcomplete portion of a predetermined validation pattern. The predetermined validation pattern becomes apparent when another medium containing the residual portion of the validation pattern is superposed on the partial pattern which ...

Identification system and method of correlating downstream work pieces with upstream working members for a work operation such as a can decorator line wherein a rotatable correlator disc having indicia radially thereon, located downstream adjacent a conveyor, correlates workpieces and/or their sites on an adjacently passing workpiece conveyor with upstream working members so that downstream identification can be made of working members that were in register or working relationship with the workp...

An identification bracelet attached to the arm of each patient entering a hospital dispenses a plurality of magnetically coded tags having an adhesive backing for attachment to samples, prescriptions and the like to uniquely identify the source individual. Tag readers located throughout the hospital decode the magnetic tags in order to correlate an analysis with the proper patient. In the patient's room, a portable battery operated cross-check reader compares a magnetically coded treatment tag w...

A booklet of tickets suitable for identification purposes comprising a plurality of metallic tickets each lying one above the other in substantially parallel planes; a plurality of metallic counterfoils each lying one above the other in substantially parallel planes, and each being detachably affixed to a ticket; each counterfoil being affixed to the remaining counterfoils which together form a stub having means for attachment of the booklet to an item to be identified; and each ticket having th...

An identification device for attachment to a door of a vehicle. The device includes an identification plate having certain indicia thereon which will aid in readily identifying an unauthorized operator, i.e., indicating that the vehicle is stolen. Also included is peculiar structure requiring a special tool for attaching the identification plate to the vehicle and structure for obscuring the peculiar attaching structure thus rendering the identification plate substantially tamperproof.