CA2034000A1 - Security paper for producing documents - Google Patents

Security paper for producing documents

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CA2034000A1
CA2034000A1 CA 2034000 CA2034000A CA2034000A1 CA 2034000 A1 CA2034000 A1 CA 2034000A1 CA 2034000 CA2034000 CA 2034000 CA 2034000 A CA2034000 A CA 2034000A CA 2034000 A1 CA2034000 A1 CA 2034000A1
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paper
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Carsten Gatz
Peter-Henning Holm
Gerd-Heyo Schopf
Konrad Gerstner
Rainer Schluter
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Drewsen Spezialpapiere & Co KG GmbH
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41MPRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M3/00Printing processes to produce particular kinds of printed work, e.g. patterns
    • B41M3/14Security printing
    • B41M3/142Security printing using chemical colour-formers or chemical reactions, e.g. leuco-dye/acid, photochromes
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21HPULP COMPOSITIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D21H21/00Non-fibrous material added to the pulp, characterised by its function, form or properties; Paper-impregnating or coating material, characterised by its function, form or properties
    • D21H21/14Non-fibrous material added to the pulp, characterised by its function, form or properties; Paper-impregnating or coating material, characterised by its function, form or properties characterised by function or properties in or on the paper
    • D21H21/40Agents facilitating proof of genuineness or preventing fraudulent alteration, e.g. for security paper
    • D21H21/44Latent security elements, i.e. detectable or becoming apparent only by use of special verification or tampering devices or methods
    • D21H21/46Elements suited for chemical verification or impeding chemical tampering, e.g. by use of eradicators

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  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
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Abstract

A security paper can be used to produce documents which can be identified as genuine by means of a colour reaction system consisting of a colour-forming component and a colour-developing component and based on the principle of pressure-sensitive duplicating paper. The colour-forming component is applied to the paper, which contains the colour-developing component, by means of a marking device. A number of drawbacks are associated with known security systems for documents based on the principle of pressure-sensitive duplicating paper. The aim of the invention is to overcome these drawbacks. To this end, the security paper is placed in contact with a marking liquid which contains a colour-forming component.
The reaction between the colour-developing component present in the paper and the colour-forming component occurs in the paper itself instead of on the surface as in conventional papers. The marking penetrates the paper and may even strike through on the other side, where it forms a mirror image. This marking cannot be removed from the document without destroying the document itself. A
further major advantage of the invention is that a paper with an incorporated colour-developing component is a true security paper, i.e., comparable with conventional special papers (with fluorescent inlays, small engravings, watermarks, metal threads, etc.) which are note available to the general public. This appreciably enhances the security.

Description

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~1 SecuriSy p~per for ~roducing documents It has been attempted since time immemorlal to forge paper document~ ~nd for ~ust as long efforts h~ve al~o been made to take sulta~le measures to dete¢t SUCh S forgeries. The te~n ~documents~ i3 ln thl C~SQ to be underRtood quite generally and compris~s all types o~
printed item~ and papers whlch can provide the respective owner with ~ financial or other advantage. They may cons0quently ~e certificates in th~ narLower sense, bank-10 notes, securltle8, check~ and tha like, but similarlyalso ~uthorization and identifica~ion papers, such a~ for example entrance tickets and travel ticket~ or yet other types o~ documents.
i Detecting an imitation of a document is usua~ly : 15aided by the ~riginal being provlded with certain charac-teri~tlc feature~ which can~ot be imi-tated, or only ~y ~olng to con~iderable lengths, or only imper~ectly, and which consequ~ntly maXe the origi.nal dis~lnguLshable f~om an ~nitation. ~nong these characl:eris~ic features are the u3e o~ speci~l papexs which are not accessible to every-one ~nd in whlch for ex~npl~ ~:luorescent inlays, ~m~ll engravlngs, wat~rma~s, me~al t'hread~ or other ~ature~
not contained in freely acce~3~ble papers are incor-porated~ Furthermore, however, the vi~ual design o~ the ~5 d~cument may also serve as a charact~ristic feature, by for ~xample markings, guilloti~e ho1es, complicated color coating~ or moticulously construc~d motif~ belng prin~ed onto the pape~ o~ other/ iml~atlon~hlndering printLng technique~ b0inq used. All ~uch cha~ac~erlstlc feature~
30 have proved emlnently successful in many fLeld~, in pa~ticular 1~, aa i~ frèquently the Ca~e, ~ore than one are provided eogether, that ~8 to say for ox~ple the paper c~n~alns watexmaxks and fluorc~cent lnl~y~ and at t~o ~amo timo i~ prin~d in ~ way which innib~ta lmlt-3S ation.
~ hese types o~ ~hara~terization of document~ h~v~~rawback~. Por ~n3tanca, feature~ incorporated in the paper cannot normally be detected Lmmedia~ely by slmple ~.

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These drawbac~s have an effect ln particula~ in the case of '`masg documQnts~. Such doc~ment~ are sub-mit~ed to an inspector in a gr~at num~er within a short lS time, with the conse~uence that the inspector has no poss1b1lity ~t all of doing anything other than lnspect-ina the doct~ent by s~m~le viewin~, usually not even very closely. Typical exa~pl~s of such mas~ document~ ar~
travel tickets~ entrance tlC~et'l and ~uchlike items provi~g entitlement, for which furthermore th~ ~tandard o~ an imitatlon_inhibltir~ characterlzation is g~nerally no~ ~o hi~h ag, ~o~ example, ln t.he case o~ bankn4te~, ~or re~ons o~ co~
A further drawback ~ that poten-~ial ~orgers can 2$ detect wlth relat~vely llt~le prob:Lem whlch features they have to imita~ in order to make ~he respec~lve docu~ent appea~ as preswmably genuine.
In EP-~ 90 13~ a method i8 d~ cribed by whlch tha drawback~ mentloned are to be overcome. This method of che~Xing the genuinene~ of documents worXs on the prln-ciple of color~eaction ~yatems, whlch are known f~om pressure-s~n~itLve copy~ng papsr~ ~carbonless copying paper o~ ~CR papar) snd which compri~e a color former, emi~ting olectron~, and a color dev~lope~, xecei~ln~
~5 ~le~rons. ~xample~ which are u~ed as colo~ deYelop~r are clsy~, at~apulgite, zeolite, bentonl~e and kaolln o~
el9~ phenol re~in3, and examples 3ervin~ ~s color ~orm~r~
ar~ c~tion~c dyes in t~e~r colorless ~or very w~akly colored) leuco form, ~or example crystal-vlolet lacton~

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3- ~03(~)00 or benzoylleucomethylene blue.
One of the two components, preferably the color developer of the color-reaction ~ystem, i~ applied in a coating to at lea3t part of the sur~ace of -the document to be secured again~t forgery. The other component, that iY to say preferably the color former, i~ contain~d in a colored ~arklng liquid, which for checking purpose3 is 8pplied t~ the document to be tested. In the ca~e o genuine documents, there occurs between the componenta of 10~.h~ colo~ ~cQction oyo~om .3 color roD.ctlc.n, wh~h ~ S
a color e~fect deviating ~rom the orLginal color of the m~klr~ l t~ ~r.~r. Tn the case o~ nnq~nuine document~, on the other hand, the mar~lng ~ppear~ in the original color of ~h~ marking liquld.
15This solution ~ccordln~ to EP-A 90 130 h~s the advantage that the corre~pondin~ docum~nt~ can ~e tqsted incon~plcuously for genuineness with little ou~lay on a$d~, which are mobile.
~owe~er, ~long with th~se ~dvantag~s, draw4ack~
stlll remaln. For lnstance, ~orçlar~ can chang~ ~ 3ecurity document subse~uently by removlng the coating in whlch th~ one component of ~ho calor-r~action sy~tam wa~
applied to the pape~ and maXing the r~qulr~d change ln the reactlon color which appear,s on the documant. To be regardad a~ a further drawback is that Lt i8 relatlv~ly simple for a skilled forger w1th knowledge of the under-lyin~ react~on pr~nclple to lml~ate th~ securlty paper, that is to say ~or ex~mple to coat a ~heet o~ ca~d with a colo~ de~elope~ or obtain a ~orre~ponding card intended for other purpose3, and alr~ady coate~, and use lt, or example w~tn ~ne a~a Ol a ~ r ~l~U~V~ L ~ ~V
travel ticke~s ~or example, This i~ where th~ invention comes in. Its ob~ect is to overcome these remaining drawb~cks of the prlor 3S a~t.
According to the invention, th~3 ob~ec~ i3 achleved ~y the ~act tha~ the color developer is evenly dist~ibuted in the paper. ~his i~ accomplished by the color develope~ being added to ~he pulp ~ven ~efore web -_ 4 _ 2 ~ 3 formation, in othe~ words i~ l~ incorporated in th~
paper.
The following are xeg~rded as color developer~
for the purpose3 of the ~ nventlon~
- activated grades of clay, such as for exampla sllt clay, bentonite, attapulgite or 3ynthetic products, such as treated ~nhydrides, aluminum silicates, magnesl~m ~illcate~
- specific zinc ~alicylate compounds - phenolic resin~, such aq for example condensation product-q of paraphenylphenol, pa~a-alkyl-phenols wlth formaldehyde.
If the security pa~er according to th~ i~vent~on is brought into contact with a marXing liquid whlch containq a color former, the reactlon betwean the color developer pre~ent in th~ paper and the color ~ormer no longer ta~es place on the surface, AS usual hitherto, ~ut in the paper ~tsel~. Th~ m~rking penetrate~ the pAper and may even strike through onko the other sLdc o~ tho paper, i.e. ~t form~ a mirror image th~re. It is now no longer possi~Le to ~emove such a marklng from the document characteri~ed in thi~ way wl~hou~ destr~yin~ the sa~d aocume~n~ ~v~ o.llr how~ ~h4 oc~a~rlty lc~ ~u~atar~_ tLally enhanced by ~he fact tha~ a paper w~th int~gratad color developer i~ a tru~ ~ecurlty paper, that i~ to ~ay i8 comparable with the special papers m~ntioned at the b~ginning ~w~t~ for exampl~ fluore~cent inlay6, ~mall on~ra~nqs, watermarks, metal threads an~ the liXe3 which ara not accessible to eve~yone. It 18 to be regarded a~
a furth~r advantage that tho ma~klng can be mado wlth tha same ~UCC~8~ on both s~des of the paper. Pr~viou~ly, the paper had to be coated on both sid~s for thi~.
All leuco base~ known from tha t~chn~que of NCR
pape~s can be employed a~ color form~r~ for the purpo3e~
`~ 35 of th~ inventio~, either ~in~ puro 6u~8tanca8 or, ~8 a ~: rule, ~ub8tance mixture~ h whlch, ~ generally ~ usual, d~ reaction color~ can b~ a~us~ed~ The : orig~nal celor of tha ma~kin~ liquid i8 ln thiu case ~hos~n such t~t i~ di~far~ a~ di6t~nctly a~ po~sible .

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S zo.~ n from the color p~oduced by th~ color r~actlon ~nd can I superLmposed by another color.
I Incldent~lly, it i~ also conceivable to provid~
the marking liquid with ~ust th~ color former a~ the only . 5 coloring agent. Such a to a certain ex~ent "ln~sible"
mArk;n,J ~ lor, wh1~h ~nly hf?~t~m~R vi,~:ihl~ ~ n ;3n or~ n~l ¦ document, is less expedient, how~Yer, becau~ the non-appearance of a mark~ng on ~n imit~tion ~an al30 c~u~e the insp~c~or to draw the wrong conclusion that the ¦ 10 marking device failed. In addition, in numerous ~pplic~-! . tion~, for example ~n the ca6e of railway tickets in ~
supranat~onal tran~port network, documents which are ; valid but origindtc from foralgn i~suer~ and are not o~
the ~ecurity standard xeached according to the invention h~ve to be able to be checked and cance~led.
In a further develo4ment of the invention~ part3 o~ the surace of ths securl~y paper may be coa-ted on o~e or both ~ides with a neutrallzatlon lnk. In the thu~
ne~tralized area~ no color reactlon tak~ place durlng the marking, so that the original color o the markln~
uid appear~ In the non-neutraliz~d areas of the pap~r, on the other hand, the colo~ re~ction b~tws~n color former and color dcveloper occurs~ and the suporim-posLn~ color AppeAra. This pern1lt~ an lmmedlate com-parison o~ the orLglnal color wit~ the superimpo~ing color and conseguently a particularly guick and reliable c~eck ~en by per~ons who are color-blind.
A further po~si~ility of ~olor differentidt1on i8 pro~ided by th~ u~e o~ a multi-part stamp pad, on which ~u at least one part oontalns the marXing liquid ~ithout color f~rmer and a~ lea~t one o~h~r part of the atamp ~ad , contain~ the marking liquid with color former. ~urlng ! marklng of the doeument, a color reaction t~Xes place in ¦ the area with the color former, while no ~olor rea~tion oc~ rs ~n t h~ ArRi~ ~r~f~ frnm nnl nr fnrm~r ~n th;~l h~rf-~he ori~inal color of the markin~ liquLd bacom~ Yl~lble.
` ~he paper is al~o ~xpqdlently provl~d wl~
further charac~rizin~ features of gen~ineness know~ per e~ ~U~ WaLt~Ll~ Lh~ ~ UUl~ y~ ~l~

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whLch can be used selectively for a more ~horough test of genu~nene~s if the color reaction ha~ given cause to suspect ~he existenc~ of an imitation. It ha~ heen ~ound as quite particul~rly suxpr~in~ here that watermarks r ~n~ e; ~er~bl~ more distinctly in ~he case o f the paper according to the invention than otherwise.
The followi~ axemplary embodiment is intended to illu~trate the lnvention more ~pecifically, wlthout rQstricting it to this embodlment.
¦ 10 A phenothia2ine leuco basQ t~Pergascrlpt Blau ! S-4G") i~ dissolved as color former ln a commerc~lly I a~allable, for example ~reen or red, itamp ink. A wate~-I mark paper which contain~ ac~i~ated attapulglte as color ~; developer is prepared a~ the paper. If this p.~par ls then prlnted with the ~tamp ink containin~ ~he color former, a somewhat dark-brown appearlng stamp imprint i9 0~-talne~. On a normal pape.~, on the other hand, a ~amp imprint produced in the s~ne way - wlthout reactant ~os the color former - has its orlginal green or red color unchanged, automaticall~ cla~sifying thi~s paper a8 "ungenuine~ o~ at leas~ a~ ~possibly ungenuine", wlth ~he con9equence that a ~pecific in~spection ~or the preaenCe o~ the watermar~ a8 a ~urther ~eature of ~enuinene~ ig ll~lblc~Lo~l, ~ho ~~ ~ lo ~ r dopo~do~ ~e ~-hG ~-hc~r ~n~ h~W
as the watermark papor and the uncoat~d normal pape~ are prlnt~d.

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Claims (3)

Patent claims
1. Security paper for producing documents which can be identified as genuine by means of a color-reaction system, consisting of color former and color developer on the principle of pressure-sensitive copying paper, for which purpose the color former is to be applied by means of a marking device to the paper provided with the color developer, characterized in that the color developer is evenly distributed in the paper.
2. Security paper according to Claim 1, charac-terized in that parts of its surface are coated on one or both sides with a neutralization ink.
3. Security paper according to one of the preceding Claims, characterized in that the paper is additionally provided with characterizing security features known per se, such as watermarks, fluorescent inlays and the like.
CA 2034000 1989-06-08 1990-06-08 Security paper for producing documents Abandoned CA2034000A1 (en)

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DE19893918765 DE3918765A1 (en) 1989-06-08 1989-06-08 SECURITY PAPER FOR THE PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS
DEP3918765.9 1989-06-08

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