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EP0334390B1
EP0334390B1 EP89107409A EP89107409A EP0334390B1 EP 0334390 B1 EP0334390 B1 EP 0334390B1 EP 89107409 A EP89107409 A EP 89107409A EP 89107409 A EP89107409 A EP 89107409A EP 0334390 B1 EP0334390 B1 EP 0334390B1
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Colin John Whitehead
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D7/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency
    • G07D7/004—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency using digital security elements, e.g. information coded on a magnetic thread or strip
    • G07D7/0047—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency using digital security elements, e.g. information coded on a magnetic thread or strip using checkcodes, e.g. coded numbers derived from serial number and denomination

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  • This invention relates to documents of the kinds which are produced and used in large numbers and which, for any given series, are identical one with another, except for a unique multi-digit number upon each individual document.
  • the word "number” is to be taken to mean something which is wholly numerical, or is wholly composed of letters of the alphabet, or is a combination of numerical digits and "alpha" digits.
  • the invention also extends to a method and means for applying such "numbers" to documents of the aforesaid kinds.
  • the documents may be of any desired kind and, most commonly, the numbering thereof will be for purposes associated with the security and/or administration of the documents, either in their production or in their use.
  • security documents such as banknotes, bonds, warrants, share certificates, vouchers and lottery tickets will each be uniquely identifiable by the number or numbers thereupon.
  • the documents to which this invention relates are most commonly numbered, during or after production, by means of number printing machines, sometimes called “numbering boxes” or “numbering barrels”, which are adapted to print the number in a desired position or positions upon each document and to change, in a predetermined sequence and between documents, the number to be printed by the machine.
  • numbering may be effected by other means, including both other mechanical means and electronically controlled systems such as are used in ink-jet printing and in laser-utilising methods and means.
  • US-A-4207814 describes a method and apparatus for numbering a series of documents with consecutive serial numbers and corresponding check digits. In this case, the serial number and check digit are placed adjacent a corner of each document.
  • DE-C-523276 illustrates a numbering apparatus which has a plurality of rotatable elements carrying numbers with different forms from those of adjacent elements.
  • FR-A-1177718 illustrates a banknote in which the serial number is printed conventionally but also along a margin of the banknote so that the serial numbers can be read by viewing the margins.
  • Any person who attempts the unauthorized reproduction of a security document is faced with a large number of problems, one of which is that each document in a given series of genuine documents bears its own unique multi-digit number in one or more places thereupon. He may attempt to overcome this problem in a number of ways. For example, he may regard it as sufficient in some circumstances, to produce a plurality of documents, all of which bear identical multi-digit numbers. This may be done by the repetitive use of a printing plate made from a photograph which includes the multi-digit number of one arbitrarily selected genuine document. However, once it is known that an unauthorised reproduction has been made, it is easier to detect further copies if they all bear the same number.
  • Another possible solution involves the manufacture and use of a printing plate for printing some only of the digits of a "genuine" or officially used multi-digit number (for example, the first three digits thereof) and the later insertion of the missing digit or digits, by suitably positioning the authorized and partially numbered document so that it receives desired impressions from a numbering box or from some other printing means or system.
  • a still further solution also involves the printing of a part of the multi-digit number from a printing plate with fixed digits.
  • the side-lay i.e. the relative position of the printing means and the document being printed
  • the part numbers upon the plate may be printed so that they occupy different positions or locations within the multi-digit number.
  • the aim of the producer of the unauthorised document is to make its appearance, including the appearance of the identifying numbers, approximate closely to the appearance of the genuine document.
  • the object of this invention is substantially to increase the difficulties faced by the unauthorised reproducer of such documents.
  • a document which is one of a series of documents which are identical in content except for a number made up of a set of alphabetical or numerical characters, which uniquely identifies each document within the series, and in which the numerical or alphabetical characters in the identifying number are provided in an upright manner one above the other.
  • At least two characters of the identifying number differ from each other, in addition to any differences in the letters or digits which they represent, in one or more visible physical characteristics.
  • the digits may, for example, differ in their heights, their widths, or their type styles, or in any combination of these.
  • the pitch of the digits of the multi-digit number may be constant or may vary.
  • the digits vary from digit to digit in a characteristic which is progressively variable (e.g. height), such variation may be in a progressive manner, from one end of the multi-digit number of the other.
  • the number appears in diametrically opposite corners of the document, so that if a corner or strip of the document is torn away the identifying number is left on the remainder.
  • the direction of variation of the physical characteristics is preferably opposite in the two representations of the number. For example, if in one representation of the number the digits increase in size from one digit to the next in a left-to-right direction, in the other representation of the same number on the same document the digit sizes decrease in the left-to-right direction.
  • the digits of the multi-digit number may be printed in one or more different colours in a single printing operation.
  • the multi-digit number may comprise two separate numbers, each of which forms part of a different overall series of numbers.
  • the invention also consists in a set of such documents.
  • Documents according to this invention will require an unauthorised reproducer to devote considerably more time, effort and expenditure than would be required for the reproduction of standard forms of multi-digit identification numbers. He will need to make many more printing plates than previously required and, in any infilling operation, is likely to have problems in obtaining or making the required type.
  • the varying physical characteristics of the digits are such that an illicit reproducer cannot use, either wholly or partly, a commercially available number box. If the reproduction is not of high quality, it will be readily detectable; and the variations in type faces, and the dispositions of the various forms of the digits of a genuine document, may render uneconomic attempts at high quality unauthorised copying.
  • Figure 1 the number 1, which occurs in both the top left-hand corner and the bottom right-hand top corner of a document 2, is intended to be read vertically from top to bottom (i.e. as 989106).
  • the digits shown are all in a type style in which the heights and widths of the digits vary progressively from digit to digit. The direction of the graduation of digits is reversed as between the left-hand and right-hand numbers; the greatest height and width is to be seen in the first "9" of the top left-hand number and the final "6" of the bottom right-hand number.
  • the document 2 may be printed in sheets on rotary printing presses with the use of parallel six- wheel convex or barrel numbering boxes to print the numbers 1 in a direction parallel to the direction of rotation of the impression cylinder.
  • a machine for printing the document 2, shown in Figure 1, with the numbers 1 could comprise a rotary numbering machine having a number of type rings, each of which includes a number of type faces angularly spaced about the common axis of the rings. Each ring is angularly adjustable to bring any of the type faces into printing position. Each type face carries a digit.
  • An operating lever is fitted with a cam follower roller.
  • a cam on the printing equipment lifts the cam follower roller up and down to cause the type rings to be indexed with the printing of each document.
  • Such indexing normally causes the numerical value of the whole number to increase by one with each indexing step.
  • the height and width of the digits are the same for all type faces of a single ring but the digit height and width may differ from ring to ring. Also, there may be a progressive variation in height and width from one end ring to the other end ring.
  • each of the six digits could have the same height but the style or design of the digits could differ as follows. Describing firstly the number in the top left-hand corner of the document, the figures “9 and 8" could both be of a second type style, giving a heavy print . The figures “9 and 1 " could both be of a third lighter type style and figures “0 and 6” could both be of a fourth, yet lighter, type style. The same number would be printed in the bottom right-hand corner of the document, but in this case the order of styles is reversed so that "9 and 8" would be printed in the lightest type style and "0 and 6" in the heaviest type style.

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1. Document qui est l'un d'une série de documents dont le contenu est identique, sauf en ce qui concerne un numéro composé d'un ensemble de caractères alphabétiques ou numériques qui identifient, de façon unique, chaque document à l'intérieur de la série, et dans lequel les caractères numériques ou alphabétiques du numéro d'identification sont disposés verticalement l'un au-dessus de l'autre.
2. Document selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel au moins deux caractères du numéro d'identification diffèrent l'un de l'autre, en plus de toutes différences dans les lettres ou les chiffres qu'ils représentent, dans une ou plusieurs caractéristiques physiques visibles.
3. Document selon la revendication 2, dans lequel les caractères qui diffèrent ont des hauteurs différentes.
4. Document selon la revendication 2, dans lequel les caractères qui diffèrent ont des largeurs différentes.
5. Document selon la revendication 2, dans lequel les caractères qui diffèrent ont des styles de caractère différents.
6. Document selon la revendication 2, dans lequel le pas des caractères varie, au moins entre les caractères qui présentent des caractéristiques physiques visibles variables.
7. Document selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel le numéro est imprimé deux fois sur le document dans des coins diagonalement opposés.
8. Document selon la revendication 7, quand elle est rattachée à l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 6, dans lequel la variation dans l'un des numéros d'identification n'est pas présente dans l'autre numéro d'identification.
9. Document selon la revendication 8, dans lequel la variation des caractéristiques physiques des caractères de l'un des deux numéros est présente en sens inverse dans l'autre des deux numéros.
10. Document selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel chacun des caractères du numéro d'identification comprend un soulignement qui est discontinu par rapport au soulignement du ou des caractères adjacents.
11. Document de sécurité selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes.
12. Document de sécurité selon la revendication 11, ce document de sécurité étant un billet de banque.
13. Série de documents selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, lesquels documents sont identiques sauf en ce qui concerne les numéros d'identification respectifs qui identifient d'une façon unique chaque document à l'intérieur de la série.
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GB848410918A GB8410918D0 (en) 1984-04-27 1984-04-27 Numbered documents
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EP85302866A EP0160504B2 (fr) 1984-04-27 1985-04-24 Documents numérotés, méthodes et moyens pour leur production

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