Identification card issuing apparatus

Claim 1

An apparatus for automatically issuing an identification card which comprises, in combination: information forming means for forming into a video signal information to be ultimately placed on the identification card, said information forming means having an information storage device for electromagnetically storing said information to be ultimately placed on the identification card in the form of coded information, a keyboard arrangement having a plurality of keys corresponding to the contents stored in said information storage device, a control device coupled between said keyboard arrangement and said information storage device for selecting out of the contents stored in said information storage device the desired information by operating some of the keys in said keyboard arrangement, and an information compiling device coupled to said information storage device, and said information compiling device having buffer storage device for compiling all of said coded information selected by said keyboard arrangement from the contents stored in said information storage device into the form of said video signal to be ultimately placed on the identification card; optical means coupled to said information forming means for converting said video signal into rays of light; and a transfer-type electrophotographic copying device including a charging means, an exposing station, an image transferring means and a separation means and a photoreceptor drum supported in position for rotation in sequence past said respective means; said optical means including an optical fiber tube for converting said video signal, which is applied thereto from said information compiling device, into rays of light, and a bundle of image transmitting optical fibers positioned between said optical fiber tube and said photoreceptor drum for projecting said rays of light onto said photoreceptor drum at said exposing station.

Claim 2

An apparatus for automatically issuing an identification card which comprises, in combination: information forming means for forming into a video signal information to be ultimately placed on the identification card, said information forming means having an information storage device for electromagnetically storing said information to be ultimately placed on the identification card in the form of coded information, a keyboard arrangement having a plurality of keys corresponding to the contents stored in said information storage device, a control device coupled between said keyboard arrangement and said information storage device for selecting out of the contents stored in said information storage device the desired information by operating some of the keys in said keyboard arrangement, and an information compiling device coupled to said information storage device, and said information compiling device having buffer storage device for compiling all of said coded information selected by said keyboard arrangement from the contents stored in said information storage device into the form of said video signal to be ultimately placed on the identification card; optical means coupled to said information forming means for converting said video signal into rays of light; and a transfer-type electrophotographic copying device including a charging means, an exposing station, an image transferring means and a separation means and a photoreceptor drum supported in position for rotation in sequence past said respective means; said optical means including an optical fiber tube for converting said video signal, which is applied thereto from said information compiling device, into rays of light, and a bundle of image transmitting optical fibers positioned between said optical fiber tube and said photoreceptor drum for projecting said rays of light onto said photoreceptor drum at said exposing station.