A plastic identification band for milking cows is formed as a strap of a width to receive identifying indicia and a length for attachment to and about the leg of a cow. A rectangular buckle at one end has a bottom wall coplanar with the strap and an upper wall defining an opening to receive the outer end of the strap. The bottom wall of the buckle includes a plurality of upwardly facing teeth extending longitudinally of the buckle. The strap has a plurality of similar teeth on the underside ther...

An identification badge is provided to enable hospital personnel to be identified in a delivery room but not pose a danger of scratching neonatal infants. The badge contains a loop fabric layer and a hook fabric layer of a hook and loop fastener, one of said fabric layers bearing identification indicia and the other being attachable to the fabric of a wearer's outer garment through a penetrating fastener. A rigid support member, substantially smaller than either fabric layer is positioned betwee...

An identification system including a card preparation system, a memory system, remote card reading stations, a comparator, accessory device, and a control means connected between each of said items. The card preparation system records distinct patterns on identification cards. The control means directs the operation of the information retrieval system. The memory system stores identifying information characteristics as well as distinct coded patterns that are placed on the cards. The remote card...

A set of identification cards, each of which may have a photograph of a person thereon, the cards being useful for identification for cashing checks and the like; the color of the card may indicate the maximum size check which may be cashed, and the amount of radioactive material on the photograph on each card may indicate the maximum size check which may be cashed.

An identification device is provided which includes a substrate having a portion of one surface constructed so as to be absorbent and capable of permanently accepting an invisible indicia such as a signature. The said portion of said substrate is of self-destructing safety printing so that tampering therewith is readily ascertainable and will obscure a slight visible cast resulting from transferring invisible indicia thereto. The substrate is preferably comprised of a paper layer on opposite sid...

An identification device which includes a source of parallel light beams, a prism having a face for receiving the light beams and having another face for receiving an object to be identified, apparatus for receiving an image of the object and additional apparatus for comparing the image of the object with a known image.

An identification and personal information conveying device comprising: an elongate, flat, unitary, plastic member having a first end portion, a second end portion, and an intermediate portion and having a generally planar top surface and a generally planar bottom surface and having two parallel lateral side edges comprising a leading edge and a trailing edge and having opposite first and second end edges; information receiving and displaying assembly fixedly attached to the bottom surface of th...

An improved data transmission system which transmits data at least partially over existing telephone lines, the improvement comprising devices which, in addition to transmitting and receiving data and being actuated by a non-telephone signal, automatically complete a telephone communication with a predetermined computer. Once the device is connected to the computer, it receives information such as a particular telephone number which is used in the reception and/or transmission of data. The recei...

An identification system for identifying an individual, the system including record means for containing a coded representation of the individual's fingerprint, means for taking the individual's fingerprint at the time an identification is to be made, comparison means for comparing the two fingerprints, and indicating means for indicating an identity or lack of identity between the two fingerprints.

A method of identifying a workpiece in the course of its manufacture, in which the workpiece carrying an existing identification marking is supplied to an apparatus in which it is to be subject to a process that removes or obscures the marking, the marking is machine-read after the workpiece has been placed in the apparatus but before the process begins, data from the reading is put in store, and at the end of the process the identification is re-marked on the workpiece in accordance with the st...