Patents by Inventor Edward L. Cucksey

Edward L. Cucksey has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Credit card transporting embossing and recording system
    Patent number: 4900168
    Abstract: A system for embossing a plurality of lines and recording encoded tracks of digitally encoded characters for credit cards is disclosed. The system has an improved recording station for recording digitally encoded characters, indent embossing unit, card transporting unit, process for verifying the accuracy of recording the tracks; and stacker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: National Business Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. LaManna, James L. Hinton, Edward L. Cucksey, Leo Kull
  • Credit card embossing and recording system
    Patent number: 4866545
    Abstract: A system and method for embossing a plurality of lines and recording encoded tracks of digitally encoded characters for credit cards is disclosed. The system provides an improved recording station for sequentially recording the characters and verifying that the characters were recorded without error. The improved method verifies the accuracy of the encoded data by a comparison of recorded data with data which was the source of the recorded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: National Business Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. LaManna, James L. Hinton, Edward L. Cucksey, Leo Kull
  • Credit card embossing system
    Patent number: 4789420
    Abstract: An embossing system is disclosed for embossing cards with characters of at least two pitches. A number of embossers equal to the number of lines of characters to be embossed on the card are positioned in line. Each embosser is dedicated to the embossing of a particular line of characters with a particular pitch. A common transport belt conveys the cards from an input hopper past the embossing stations of each of the in line embossers to a wait station. During embossing, the transport belt is moved from the current longitudinal position to the longitudinal position where the closest next character(s) are to be embossed by any one of the embossers. The embossed cards are conveyed from the wait station to a topper which applies topping to the embossed characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1988
    Assignee: National Business Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. LaManna, James L. Hinton, Edward L. Cucksey
  • Credit card embossing system
    Patent number: 4784059
    Abstract: An embossing system is disclosed for embossing cards with characters of at least two pitches. A number of embossers equal to the number of lines of characters to be embossed on the card are positioned in line. Each embosser is dedicated to the embossing of a particular line of characters with a particular pitch. A common transport belt conveys the cards from an input hopper past the embossing stations of each of the line embossers to a wait station. During embossing, the transport belt is moved from the current longitudinal position to the longitudinal position where the closest next character(s) are to be embossed by any one of the embossers. The embossed cards are conveyed from the wait station to a topper which applies topping to the embossed characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: National Business Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. LaManna, James L. Hinton, Edward L. Cucksey
  • Credit card embossing and recording system
    Patent number: 4755069
    Abstract: A system for embossing a plurality of lines and recording encoded tracks of digitally encoded characters for credit cards is disclosed. The system has an improved recording station for recording digitally encoded characters, indent embossing unit, card transporting unit, process for verifying the accuracy of recording the tracks; and stacker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1988
    Assignee: National Business Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. LaManna, James L. Hinton, Edward L. Cucksey, Leo Kull
  • Credit card embossing system
    Patent number: 4686898
    Abstract: An embossing system is disclosed for embossing cards with characters of at least two pitches. A number of embossers equal to the number of lines of characters to be embossed on the card are positioned in line. Each embosser is dedicated to the embossing of a particular line of characters with a particular pitch. A common transport belt conveys the cards from an input hopper past the embossing stations of each of the in line embossers to a wait station. During embossing, the transport belt is moved from the current longitudinal position to the longitudinal position where the closest next character(s) are to be embossed by any one of the embossers. The embossed cards are conveyed from the wait station to a topper which applies topping to the embossed characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1987
    Assignee: National Business Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. LaManna, James L. Hinton, Edward L. Cucksey