Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
  • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
  • B42D15/00—Printed matter of special format or style not otherwise provided for
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• • G—PHYSICS
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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
  • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
  • B42D15/00—Printed matter of special format or style not otherwise provided for
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  • B42D15/08—Letter-cards or letter-sheets, i.e. cards or sheets each of which is to be folded with the message inside and to serve as its own envelope for mailing
  • B42D15/085—Letter-cards or letter-sheets, i.e. cards or sheets each of which is to be folded with the message inside and to serve as its own envelope for mailing with special means hiding information
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
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• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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Definitions

• the present invention relates to an inviolable information tag for securely carrying information.
• An information tag is commonly used to transmit a secret code to a user, for example a credit card code.
• a code must be known only to its user and must not be read by the person carrying the information on the label (for example a printer reporting the PIN on a label) or read by any other person. another person who is not the end user of the code.
• Tamper-proof information tags such as those described in US-A-5,466,012, are already known.
• This document describes a security system that includes a base sheet having confidential information on it and a cover sheet with impressions to render the information confidential. illegible confidential information. Prints include lines separated by blank spaces. This system does not print confidential information without the person making the printing can see it since the information is printed inside the system.
• US 5,029,901 discloses a base sheet bearing confidential information and an opaque cover sheet that prevents the reading of information from the outside. We can separate the two sheets to read the internal impressions. Here again the confidential impressions are internal to the sheet and made invisible after the cover sheet has been deposited. The printer therefore has access to confidential information.
• Document FR-A-2 662 530 describes an inviolable information carrier or label consisting of at least one transparent top sheet or layer whose surface is adapted to receive a confidential printing and at least one sheet or lower layer having means for scrambling said confidential printing, the boiling means being visible through said sheet or upper layer, wherein said scrambling means can be irreversibly inactivated.
• the scrambling pattern is seen through an initially transparent layer which is made opaque so as to cancel the scrambling effect.
• the scrambling pattern is affixed to a support for inactivating it by a mechanical or physical action. When the scrambling pattern is seen through a transparent layer, the transparent layer is acted upon to inactivate the scrambling means.
• US-A-5,238,272 discloses a label having a bar code that is to be protected.
• the label consists of two sheets between which is a tab having the bar code, said tab being folded under the upper sheet so as to protect the bar code.
• Such a label includes confidential information that is printed under a non-transparent sheet. To manufacture such a label, it is necessary to print the bar code before the gathering of the various constituent sheets of the label. Since barcodes are not confidential information, they can be printed in many identical copies to characterize a product. During the manufacture of labels, the printing of the bar code may be readable by the printer, because in this document the purpose is to protect the reading of the barcode by consumers or its deterioration.
• a goal in the field of confidential impressions as personal codes is that at no time can anyone other than the one for whom they are intended be able to read them.
• Codes are also used which are masked by scrambling means which are printed on a carrier and then printed with a number and then coated with a scratch-resistant opaque lacquer. This kind of system is used especially for lottery tickets.
• these systems have the disadvantage that the code is directly printed on the lottery ticket and can therefore be seen by transparency on the back and secondly that the printer sees the printed code / gold lottery tickets must imperatively be randomly distributed between days and no one should know their numbers in advance.
• WO 99/24267 discloses a tamper-evident information tag which comprises: a transparent top sheet whose top surface is adapted to receive printed information and a non-transparent bottom sheet carrying visible jamming means through the transparent topsheet.
• the transparent top sheet and the non-transparent bottom sheet are bonded together.
• the information printed on the upper surface of the transparent topsheet becomes visible when the bond between the transparent top sheet and the non-transparent bottom sheet is broken. Physical separation provides evidence that information security has been violated.
• the lower sheet may be a substrate or the non-transparent bottom sheet is a coating or mask that may be scraped or peeled from beneath the transparent topsheet.
• the transparent topsheet can be slit or split to prevent the removal of the printed confidential information.
• the label must be reproduced in many copies and therefore its cost can not be too high.
• the confidential information such as a code is printed by laser printing on the transparent sheet which in practice is made of a thermoplastic plastic material. When heating to make the scrambling means inactive, the thermoplastic transparent top sheet is deformed and the confidential code is no longer readable by the end user. Such an inviolable information tag is therefore expensive and / or inefficient.
• a label system comprising: a) a transparent sheet provided on its lower face and in its central part, a coating consisting of microcapsules in a binder, b) a zone bearing the impression of the confidential code coated a black layer of scrambling of a reactive dye with the microcapsules of the transparent sheet.
• the present invention therefore aims to overcome the disadvantages of inviolable information labels of the prior art.
• a first object of the present invention is to provide an information tag that is inviolable, and practical to use for the final recipient.
• Another object of the present invention is to provide an inviolable information tag which is relatively inexpensive.
• the present invention comprises an inviolable information label consisting of at least one transparent top sheet or layer whose upper surface is adapted to receive an impression, and at least one sheet or lower layer comprising scrambling said printing, the scrambling means being visible through said sheet or upper layer, characterized in that the scrambling means can be irreversibly inactivated by deformation of at least a portion of said sheet or lower layer.
• the irreversible deformation of the sheet or lower layer can be obtained by stretching along an axis of the constituent material of said at least a portion of the sheet or lower layer, preferably along its longitudinal axis.
• the scrambling consists of identical color patterns to the printing of the information (the confidential code for example), the sheet or lower layer having a given color, different from the color of printing the information, and by stretching the constituent material of the sheet or bottom layer, the scrambling patterns change to reveal the color of the sheet or bottom layer, so that the printing of the information becomes of a color contrasted with that of the sheet or lower layer and consequently the printing of information becomes readable.
• the color of the interference is thus irreversibly modified by a mechanical action of drawing the sheet or lower layer.
• the above system consists of a sheet or transparent layer comprising a sheet or lower layer in the form of a longitudinal tongue of deformable material fixed at one end to said transparent sheet or layer.
• a color change is obtained and thus an appearance of the printing of the confidential code on the upper face of the sheet or upper transparent layer.
• the tongue is stretched in a single direction according to this embodiment.
• the inviolable information label according to the present invention comprises a tab provided in its central part, on its underside, with an adhesive intended to secure the label on a support, the inactivation of the jamming means being then by stretching the tongue in two opposite directions.
• the inviolable information label described above further comprises a support on which is secured the sheet or deformable lower layer itself supporting the sheet or transparent top layer.
• the sheet or deformable layer is then a sheet or intermediate layer between the transparent top sheet or layer and the support.
• the material constituting the deformable sheet or layer is a material having characteristics of plasticity. Because it is a material without memory, after deformation by traction, the deformable sheet or layer does not return to its original shape, and it is impossible to reconstruct the jamming means that are rendered permanently inactive. Materials having plasticity characteristics may be used for any material having elongation qualities without memory.
• cast polyethylene or polypropylene films may be used.
• crepe paper papers may be used.
• accordion folded papers or films may be used.
• the support may be a sheet or layer A4 of printing / writing paper on which the information label comprising the deformable sheet or lower layer and the transparent top sheet or layer is bonded.
• the carrier may be a custom letterhead sheet or layer on which the tamper evident information label of the present invention is affixed.
• the label according to the present invention is manufactured in multiple copies on a silicone tape and the label is glued on a personalized printing / writing paper, for example a sheet or layer comprising the instructions for the end user to display the confidential information intended for him, the heading and the mark of the banking establishment, and any other information considered useful by this banking institution.
• the printer prints the PIN on the transparent top sheet or layer of the label.
• the printer can not read the confidential code since it is scrambled by the jamming means being printed in advance on the sheet or lower layer in the form of a tab. Then it is sent to the end user for whom the PIN is intended. This must then deform the sheet or lower layer in the form of a tab to permanently inactivate the jamming means.
• the information tag according to the present invention is indeed a secure information tag.
• FIG. 1 shows a top view of a first embodiment of the tamper evident information tag of the present invention.
• FIG. 2 is a sectional view along the YY axis of the inviolable information label of FIG. 1.
• Figure 3 is a top view of the information label according to Figure 1 which has been deformed the sheet or layer defomable.
• Figure 4 is a sectional view of an embodiment of the information tag of the invention provided with a support.
• Fig. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the first embodiment of Fig. 1.
• Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the second embodiment of the present invention.
• Figure 7 is a view of the tongue of the embodiment of Figure 6, this tongue being glued on a support.
• FIGS. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 show a first preferred embodiment of the invention.
• the label 1 shown in these figures is an inviolable information tag.
• This label 1 is intended to be carried on a letterhead of a bank group, a credit organization, etc. who provides his client with a PIN, usually a credit card, credit card, discount card, etc.
• the tag according to the present invention may also be used to provide a lottery number as part of games of chance. The number or code provided to the final recipient must not be read fraudulently by any third party, for example, the printer, the banker, the organizer of games, contests, etc.
• Such letterhead, lottery ticket is referred to herein as a "carrier". This support is intended to receive the tamper-evident label according to the present invention.
• the label 1 consists of a transparent upper sheet or layer 2 which is intended to be printed on its upper face by a laser printing, most often.
• This print 3 prints the PIN for an end user, such as a credit card holder, a lottery ticket buyer.
• the label also consists of a sheet or lower layer 4 which comprises scrambling means B which are a printing of particular characters in black ink which prevent reading of the characters of the print 3.
• the scrambling 4 is visible by transparency of the sheet or layer 2.
• the scrambling means B must be located opposite the portion of the sheet or upper layer 2 for receiving the laser printing of the secret code.
• the scrambling means B are inactivated by irreversible deformation of the sheet or lower layer 4. The irreversible deformation can be obtained by stretching the sheet or lower layer 4.
• the drawing can be done by the end user in any direction.
• the stretching is in a direction inclined relative to the median axis XX of the label 1.
• the stretching is performed in a longitudinal direction of the label 1, namely along the longitudinal axis YY of the label 1.
• the label is rectangular, the longitudinal axis YY parallel to the longer sides of the rectangle.
• the stretching is done according to this embodiment, in a single direction represented by the arrow F1. As can be seen more particularly in FIG.
• the irreversibly deformable sheet or layer 4 is a rectangle comprising, along its longitudinal axis, a longitudinal tongue 5 whose end 6 is integral with the sheet or lower layer 4 and whose opposite end 7 protrudes from the edge of the sheet or bottom layer 4.
• the tongue is preferably cut from the sheet or bottom layer 4 and likewise material.
• the sheet or lower layer 4 and the tongue 5 may be made of a material having characteristics of plasticity, irreversibly deformable, for example a material having characteristics of plasticity without memory.
• the sheet or lower layer 4 is not stretchable and that only the tongue 5 is stretchable.
• the sheet or lower layer 4 may be paper and the tongue 5 may be of deformable material, the end 6 of the tongue 5 being secured to the sheet or lower layer 4.
• the sheet or lower layer 4 may be in non-stretchable paper and the tongue 5 may be of irreversibly stretchable material, for example material having plasticity characteristics without memory.
• the important feature of the present invention is that the portion of the sheet or lower layer 4 which receives the scrambling means is deformable and is intended to be opposite the laser printing 3 of the secret code; so that by transparency of the sheet or upper layer 2 the secret code 3 printed and the interference printing 5 are superimposed.
• the term "sheet or bottom layer deformable by drawing” means a sheet or lower layer of which a part or the whole is deformable by stretching.
• the sheet or lower layer consists of a cut sheet or layer in which a tongue is cut, the sheet or lower layer and the tongue being of the same deformable material without memory.
• the sheet or layer 4 is a non-deformable sheet or layer supporting a deformable portion 5 shaped tab which itself supports the jamming.
• the free end of the tongue protrudes from the sheet or lower layer 4 so as to constitute a gripping means.
• the end user can pull the free end 7 of the tongue 5 according to the arrow F1 and thus deforms all or part of the sheet or lower layer 4, but in any case deforms the part that supports the jamming means.
• the scrambling consists of color patterns, for example a black color, which are identical in color to the color of the laser printing of the secret code.
• the scrambling color patterns fulfill their function and prevent the reading of the secret code.
• the color scrambling patterns are necessarily printed on the deformable part of the lower sheet or layer 4.
• the printed scrambling patterns have a different color than the deformable part (or tab) of the sheet or lower layer 4. If the prints of scrambling and secret code are black, for example, the color of the portion of the sheet or deformable layer may be white.
• the patterns constituting the interference pattern separate from each other and reveal the color of the sheet or layer or part of the sheet or deformable layer.
• the color of the sheet or layer or part of the sheet or deformable layer is different from the printing of the secret code, there is a color contrast that allows the readability of the secret code.
• the scrambling means "dilute". Any colors of the scrambling prints and the secret code may be provided, provided that they are different from the color of the portion of the sheet or deformable lower layer. In the most common case prints will be made using black inks and the sheet or layer or part of the sheet or deformable layer will be white. But we can provide other color combinations.
• FIGS. 3 and 4 show the label 1 according to the invention stuck on a support 8.
• This support 8 is for example a letterhead of a banking organization or a lottery ticket and is most often printed in the usual way to provide non-confidential information to the end user.
• the upper sheet or layer 2 and the lower sheet or layer 4 as well as the end 6 of the tongue 5 are secured by means of an adhesive, for example on the periphery 9 of the sheet or lower layer and the sheet or upper layer, leaving the tab 5 free, except at its end 6 integral with the sheet or lower layer 4.
• the tongue 5 must be able to be floating so that it can be stretched according to arrow F1 by the end user.
• Figure 3 there is shown the tongue 5 stretched to its final state that allows the reading of the secret code (4963).
• FIGS 6 and 7 show another embodiment of the present invention.
• the tongue 5 * can be stretched in two opposite directions (arrows F2 and F3).
• the tongue 5 ' may for example be a longitudinal band secured by its central portion on a support 8' with an adhesive 9.
• the adhesive must be placed on the face of the tab opposite to the sheet or transparent layer 2 so that the scrambling means printed on the face 12 of the tongue vis-à-vis the sheet or transparent layer 2 can be active when the tongue 5 'and folded.
• the tongue 5 * can be unfolded when the user pulls on the free ends 10,11 of the tongue 5 'according to arrows F2 and F3 in opposite directions.
• the jamming means printed on the face 12 vis-à-vis the sheet or transparent layer 2 are separated by the separation of the two opposite parts 14, 15 of the tongue and the jamming means are inactivated because the face 13 not printed by the scrambling means appears. If the jamming means are constituted by a black print and the unprinted face 13 of the tongue is white, because of the stretching of the tongue 5 'by its two opposite ends, the unprinted face 13 of the tongue 5 'appears and as it is white, the PIN printed on the outside of the top sheet or transparent layer 2 appears.
• the tongue may be crepe paper.
• the tongue may be crepe paper.
• the tongue of the first embodiment may also be made of crepe paper.
• the lower part intended to receive a scrambling impression may be in any material that can be stretched in at least one direction, provided that the deformation is irreversible. It can be provided that the deformable portion will be stretchable plastic that does not return to its original shape when removing the drawing force.
• Such materials having plasticity characteristics are, for example, a cast polyethylene or polypropylene film, a crepe paper, a folded or accordion folded paper or film.

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