Device for determining authenticity of a credit card or the like

Claim 1

A device for determining authenticity of credit cards or the like having character representing means located in different positions to represent different characters, respectively, which comprises: a slide; means for guiding a said card along said slide to a predetermined position; said slide having sensing means thereon for causing said slide to move with said card from an initial position upon sensing a said character representing means; a first row of contacts; brush means carried by said slide and engageable with successive ones of said contacts; a second row of contacts; means connecting the contacts of said first row to the contacts of said seconD row according to a predetermined code; a second manually operable slide; second brush means carried by said second slide and engageable with successive ones of said last mentioned contacts; means forming a set of indicia indicative of numerical positions to which said second slide is movable; said indicia being related to said different characters represented by said character representing means in accordance with said code; and electrically operated authenticity indicating means connected in circuit with said brushes.

Claim 2

A device for determining authenticity of credit cards or the like having character representing means located in different positions to represent different characters, respectively, which comprises: a slide; means for guiding a said card along said slide to a predetermined position; said slide having sensing means thereon for causing said slide to move with said card from an initial position upon sensing a said character representing means; a first row of contacts; brush means carried by said slide and engageable with successive ones of said contacts; a second row of contacts; means connecting the contacts of said first row to the contacts of said seconD row according to a predetermined code; a second manually operable slide; second brush means carried by said second slide and engageable with successive ones of said last mentioned contacts; means forming a set of indicia indicative of numerical positions to which said second slide is movable; said indicia being related to said different characters represented by said character representing means in accordance with said code; and electrically operated authenticity indicating means connected in circuit with said brushes.

Claim 6

A device for determining authenticity of credit cards or the like having character representing means located in different positions to represent different characters, respectively, which comprises: a plurality of independently movable slides; means for guiding a said card along said slides to a predetermined position, each of said slides having sensing means thereon for causing said slide to move with said card upon sensing a said character representing means; a plurality of sets of first and second rows of contacts; first brush means carried by said slides and engageable with successive ones of the contacts of respective ones of said first rows; means connecting the contacts of said first row in each of said sets to the contacts of said second row in the same said set according to a predetermined code; second manually operable slides movable along respective ones of said second rows of contacts; second brush means carried by said second slides and engageable with successive ones of said last mentioned contacts; said second brush means connecting said contacts of said second row in a respective set except the last set to the first brush means of a succeeding set; means forming sets of indicia indicative of numerical positions to which said second slides are movable; said indicia being related to said different characters represented by said character representing means in accordance with said code; and an electrically operated authenticity indicating means connected in circuit with the first brush means associated with the first said set and the second brush means associated with the last said set.

Claim 7

A device for determining authenticity of credit cards or the like having character representing means located in different positions to represent different characters, respectively, which comprises: a plurality of independently movable slides; means for guiding a said card along said slides to a predetermined position, each of said slides having sensing means thereon for causing said slide to move with said card upon sensing a said character representing means; a plurality of sets of first and second rows of contacts; first brush means carried by said slides and engageable with successive ones of the contacts of respective ones of said first rows; means connecting the contacts of said first row in each of said sets to the contacts of said second row in the same said set according to a predetermined code; second manually operable slides movable along respective ones of said second rows of contacts; second brush means carried by said second slides and engageable with successive ones of said last mentioned contacts; said second brush means connecting said contacts of said second row in a respective set except the last set to the first brush means of a succeeding set; means forming sets of indicia indicative of numerical positions to which said second slides are movable; said indicia being related to said different characters represented by said character representing means in accordance with said code; and an electrically operated authenticity indicating means connected in circuit with the first brush means associated with the first said set and the second brush means associated with the last said set.

Claim 9

A device for determining authenticity of credit cards or the like having physical formations thereon located in different positions to represent different characters, respectively, which comprises: a slide; means for guiding a said card along said slide to a predetermined position; said slide having sensing means thereon for causing said slide to move with said card from an initial position upon sensing a said formation; a row of contacts; brush means carried by said slide and engageable with successive ones of said contacts; a plurality of circuits connected to said contacts in accordance with a predetermined code; a set of indicia related to said different characters represented by said formations in accordance with said code; electrically operated authenticity indicating means; and manual means for selectively connecting said authenticity indicating means in circuit with a selected one of said circuit and with said brush means.

Claim 10

A device for determining authenticity of credit cards or the like having physical formations thereon located in different positions to represent different characters, respectively, which comprises: a slide; means for guiding a said card along said slide to a predetermined position; said slide having sensing means thereon for causing said slide to move with said card from an initial position upon sensing a said formation; a row of contacts; brush means carried by said slide and engageable with successive ones of said contacts; a plurality of circuits connected to said contacts in accordance with a predetermined code; a set of indicia related to said different characters represented by said formations in accordance with said code; electrically operated authenticity indicating means; and manual means for selectively connecting said authenticity indicating means in circuit with a selected one of said circuit and with said brush means.

Claim 11

A device for determining authenticity of credit cards or the like having openings located in different positiOns to represent different characters, respectively, which comprises: a housing; a plurality of slides movable endwise in said housing; spring means normally maintaining said slides in initial positions; a tray for receiving a said card; means for guiding said tray to carry said card from a first position outside said housing to a second position inside said housing; sensing elements carried by said slides and engageable with said openings upon movement of said card toward said second position whereby to differentially advance said slides from said initial positions; a circuit carrying member in said housing above said slides; sets of contacts on the upper and lower surfaces of said member; each of said sets of contacts comprising a first row of contacts on said lower surface and a second row of contacts on said upper surface and means connecting the contacts of said first row in each of said sets to the contacts of said second row in the same said set according to a predetermined code; contact brushes carried by said slides and engageable with successive one of the contacts of respective ones of said first rows; second manually operable slides in said housing above said circuit carrying member and movable along respective ones of said second rows of contacts; second contact brushes carried by said second slides and engageable with successive ones of said last mentioned contacts; means including said second contact brushes connecting said contacts of said second row in the respective set except the last set to said first contact brush of the succeeding set; means forming sets of indicia indicative of numerical positions to which said second slides are movable; and an electrically operated authenticity indicating means connected in circuit with the first contact brush associated with the first said set and the second brush associated with the last said set.

Claim 12

A device for determining authenticity of credit cards or the like having openings located in different positiOns to represent different characters, respectively, which comprises: a housing; a plurality of slides movable endwise in said housing; spring means normally maintaining said slides in initial positions; a tray for receiving a said card; means for guiding said tray to carry said card from a first position outside said housing to a second position inside said housing; sensing elements carried by said slides and engageable with said openings upon movement of said card toward said second position whereby to differentially advance said slides from said initial positions; a circuit carrying member in said housing above said slides; sets of contacts on the upper and lower surfaces of said member; each of said sets of contacts comprising a first row of contacts on said lower surface and a second row of contacts on said upper surface and means connecting the contacts of said first row in each of said sets to the contacts of said second row in the same said set according to a predetermined code; contact brushes carried by said slides and engageable with successive one of the contacts of respective ones of said first rows; second manually operable slides in said housing above said circuit carrying member and movable along respective ones of said second rows of contacts; second contact brushes carried by said second slides and engageable with successive ones of said last mentioned contacts; means including said second contact brushes connecting said contacts of said second row in the respective set except the last set to said first contact brush of the succeeding set; means forming sets of indicia indicative of numerical positions to which said second slides are movable; and an electrically operated authenticity indicating means connected in circuit with the first contact brush associated with the first said set and the second brush associated with the last said set.