Abstract: An improved process of adhering a film to a carrier substrate, including cards of any type, provides a carrier comprising the card, including the information printed on the card, and any other flat objects provided with the card, and provides a film, wherein a transparent adhesive is disposed between the film and the carrier, either as a separate layer, or incorporated into the side of the film facing the carrier. Once the adhesive is brought into contact with the carrier and the film, irradiation from an electromagnetic wave source, including a light source, and further including an ultraviolet light source is applied to the assemblage to cause the adhesive to set.

Abstract: An improved process of adhering a film to a carrier substrate, including cards of any type, provides a carrier comprising the card, including the information printed on the card, and any other flat objects provided with the card, and provides a film, wherein a transparent adhesive is disposed between the film and the carrier, either as a separate layer, or incorporated into the side of the film facing the carrier. Once the adhesive is brought into contact with the carrier and the film, irradiation from an electromagnetic wave source, including a light source, and further including an ultraviolet light source is applied to the assemblage to cause the adhesive to set.

Abstract: An apparatus for handling information carriers has at least one longitudinally movable striplike belt which holds information carriers detachably and successively, and at least one device for detaching at least some information carriers from the belt, removing selected information carriers from the detached information carriers, and transferring other information carriers from the detached information carriers back onto the belt for being transported onwards.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing information carriers (11), such as labels, tickets or the like, in particular contactless information carriers (11), which have integrated circuits (ICs, 30) and antennas (12, 13) connected to them, wherein antennas (12, 13) are formed at intervals one after the other on surface regions (27, 28) of a web (14), and moreover, one IC (30) provided per antenna (12, 13) is connected electrically conductively by its housing or its contacts (31, 32) to associated contact faces (33, 34) of the antenna (12) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: An apparatus for handling information carriers has at least one longitudinally movable striplike belt which holds information carriers detachably and successively, and at least one device for detaching at least some information carriers from the belt, removing selected information carriers from the detached information carriers, and transferring other information carriers from the detached information carriers back onto the belt for being transported onwards.

Abstract: A device for processing integrated circuits by communication between them and at least one control unit has at least one circumferentially driven rotation-symmetrical carrier, at least one communication device provided on the carrier for communication with integrated circuits, and a path which surrounds the carrier, the integrated circuits forming parts of the path.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing information carriers (11), such as labels, tickets or the like, in particular contactless information carriers (11), which have integrated circuits (ICs, 30) and antennas (12, 13) connected to them, wherein antennas (12, 13) are formed at intervals one after the other on surface regions (27, 28) of a web (14), and moreover, one IC (30) provided per antenna (12, 13) is connected electrically conductively by its housing or its contacts (31, 32) to associated contact faces (33, 34) of the antenna (12) (FIG. 1).

Abstract: For producing information carriers the information carriers are transported by at least one transporting device; processing a surface of the information carriers by is processed a processing unit; and the information carriers are treated on the surface so that the surface is well wetted for further printing with ink; and an apparatus for producing the information carriers is provided as well.

Abstract: A device for processing card-shaped information carriers has at least one track, at least one processing station with at least one movable carrier with a plurality of holding elements, at least one delivery element located between the track and the movable carrier, so that the cards are taken by a first delivery element from the path and transferred on the holding elements of the carrier, and then are taken by a second delivery element from the holding elements of the carrier and transferred onto the path, wherein each of the delivery elements has a wheel drivingly rotatable in a rotary direction and provided on its outer periphery with a plurality of holders which are spaced from one another in a peripheral direction for receiving, holding and delivering the cards.

Abstract: A device for processing card-shaped information carriers has at least one track, at least one processing station with at least one movable carrier with a plurality of holding elements, at least one delivery element located between the track and the movable carrier, so that the cards are taken by a first delivery element from the path and transferred on the holding elements of the carrier, and then are taken by a second delivery element from the holding elements of the carrier and transferred onto the path, wherein each of the delivery elements has a wheel drivingly rotatable in a rotary direction and provided on its outer periphery with a plurality of holders which are spaced from one another in a peripheral direction for receiving, holding and delivering the cards.

Abstract: A device for processing integrated circuits by communication between them and at least one control unit has at least one circumferentially driven rotation-symmetrical carrier, at least one communication means provided on the carrier for communication with integrated circuits, and a path which surrounds the carrier, the integrated circuits forming parts of the path.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for stamping information carriers, in particular, card-shaped carriers, such as credit cards, identification cards, customer cards, bank cards and the like by means of two type carriers. One type carrier holds raised type and the other type carrier holds recessed type in the form of numbers and letters. The type carriers stamp the desired characters into the material of the information carrier held between the two type carriers. In the inventive method, multiple characters of at least one line are simultaneously stamped in a single stamping process. All characters in a line thereby can be stamped in a single stamping process or successively in successive stamping processes.

Abstract: The transport apparatus for magnetic cards includes a belt drive with an endless belt having a portion bearing on the information-bearing card conveyed by it and an opposing retaining member opposite the belt drive, on which the portion bearing on the information-bearing card can press the card during further transport. The portion of the endless belt on the opposite side from the information-bearing card is acted on with pressurized gas, especially pressurized air, to press the endless belt against the information-bearing card. The opposing retaining member can be another belt drive with another endless belt bearing on the information-bearing card, which is also acted on by compressed gas to provide additional clamping force to hold the information-bearing card fixed without vibration during transport.

Abstract: A method, employing a device for processing, in particular for reading, programming or the like, of cards which are provided with an integrated circuit, chip or the like having at least one memory, the cards being conveyed along a path to at least one station where they are individually held fast by respective holding devices, provided with contactors, of a rotating carrier, and are processed during the rotational movement of the carrier, starting out from a device, by way of the contactors, and, subsequently thereto, the cards again being released by the holding devices onto the path. The individual cards are grasped by the holding device in question by the pressure action of a medium, in particular by suction action, and are held fast thereto.

Abstract: A printing unit has a plurality of type wheels with types on its circumference which are rotatable on a common shaft and are driveable on it by means of a slip coupling. Each type wheel has an associated feeler device that ascertains its position and a pawl for engagement with the type wheel, with an actuator that is triggerable as a function of the feeler device via a control unit, and by the actuator the pawl can be controlled between a blocking position and a release position. The drive device serving the purpose of intermittently driving the shaft has per printing unit one drive shaft, operationally coupled to the shaft, with a driving gear wheel and one common stationary disc associated with a plurality of printing units disposed in the circumferential direction.