EP0519374B1 - Document, such as a check and the like, with forgery prevention means - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
- B41M3/00—Printing processes to produce particular kinds of printed work, e.g. patterns
- B41M3/14—Security printing
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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
- B42D25/00—Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof
- B42D25/20—Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof characterised by a particular use or purpose
- B42D25/29—Securities; Bank notes
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- the present invention relates to a document, such as a check and the like, with forgery prevention means.
- delible inks are used, for example, on checks in the region where the digits related to the amount are written, in the region where the amount is written in letters and in the region related to the payee, but these solutions have not always proved themselves able to clearly indicate that forgery has occurred. In fact, not infrequently, after fraudulently tampering with the writing present in these regions, the forger "reconstructs" the region by applying color so as to conceal the tampering.
- DE-A-2 801 015 is an identity card made of a synthetic sheet with a writing zone, on said writing zone being applied a first layer of ink suitable for writing on it, on said layer being printed a second layer of ink which is fluorescent when it is illuminated with ultraviolet light, said second layer being printed with a third layer of reactive ink.
- EP-A-0 176 403 is known an anti forgery method for a document consisting of a P.V.C. substrate, on which a signature is to be applied, consisting in applying a first layer of ink on a zone for applying a signature, said ink including a pigment and a product which gives a certain porosity, applying on some zones of said first layer a transparent porous color which allows to obtain a fluorescence when illuminated with ultraviolet light, applying on said second layer a third layer of a second ink which is a pigmented vinyl ink, and applying the signature on said third layer with a indelible ink.
- the aim of the present invention is indeed to solve the above described problem by providing a document, such as a check and the like, with forgery prevention means which allows to detect a forgery, even automatically, clearly pointing out even attempts at concealing forgery.
- a particular object of the invention is to provide a document wherein the forgery prevention means can be integrated in other elements which are normally provided in a check, so that said means may not be immediately detectable to the naked eye, making it even more difficult to reconstruct the region tampered with.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a document, such as a check or the like, which by virtue of its peculiar characteristics of execution is capable of giving the greatest assurances of reliability and safety in use.
- Not least object of the present invention is to provide a document, such as a check and the like, which can be obtained by using printing inks which are easily commercially available.
- the document such as a check and the like, with forgery prevention means, according to the invention, comprises a sheet-like element, generally designated by the reference numeral 1, which in the specific case of checks can be constituted by a paper sheet with or without a watermark, which defines at least a first portion 2 for indicating the amount in digits, a second portion 3 for indicating the amount in letters, and a third portion 4 for indicating the payee of the check.
- An important peculiarity of the document according to the invention is constituted by the fact that regions printed with an ink which can be erased by chemical and/or mechanical action, designated by 10, are applied in said portions or in some of said portions. Said ink is selected so as to have a preset color response when it is illuminated by a light source of preset wavelength.
- the same manufacturing criterion can allow to create a code which can be read, for example by means of a fiber-optics head or similar elements; in this solution, first regions 20 and second regions 21 which have mutually different color responses when illuminated with light sources having preset wavelengths are provided; thus, essentially, when the first and second regions, which appear to have the same color in normal light, are illuminated by a source having a preset wavelength or two different wavelengths, said first and second regions appear to have mutually different colors and it is possible to obtain such a difference that the optical reading head can detect only the regions which respond to a certain wavelength, thus allowing to create a code which can be read automatically by the machine.
- the forger removes the upper layer, without being immediately aware of the fact, so that upon subsequent verification performed with a light source of preset wavelength, in the region where the upper layer has been removed there will be a different color response which makes the forgery in the preset region immediately evident and obvious.
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Abstract
Description
- The present invention relates to a document, such as a check and the like, with forgery prevention means.
- As is known, a problem which is currently strongly felt in various fields, and most of all in the case of checks, is the one related to the possibility of preventing the forgery of the document, i.e. the fraudulent alteration of the amounts written on the check.
- Currently, delible inks are used, for example, on checks in the region where the digits related to the amount are written, in the region where the amount is written in letters and in the region related to the payee, but these solutions have not always proved themselves able to clearly indicate that forgery has occurred. In fact, not infrequently, after fraudulently tampering with the writing present in these regions, the forger "reconstructs" the region by applying color so as to conceal the tampering.
- In this situation, it is therefore not possible to easily and rapidly make sure that forgery has occurred; furthermore, currently there are no means which allow to clearly point out that forgery has occurred.
- Known from DE-A-2 801 015 is an identity card made of a synthetic sheet with a writing zone, on said writing zone being applied a first layer of ink suitable for writing on it, on said layer being printed a second layer of ink which is fluorescent when it is illuminated with ultraviolet light, said second layer being printed with a third layer of reactive ink.
- From EP-A-0 176 403 is known an anti forgery method for a document consisting of a P.V.C. substrate, on which a signature is to be applied, consisting in applying a first layer of ink on a zone for applying a signature, said ink including a pigment and a product which gives a certain porosity, applying on some zones of said first layer a transparent porous color which allows to obtain a fluorescence when illuminated with ultraviolet light, applying on said second layer a third layer of a second ink which is a pigmented vinyl ink, and applying the signature on said third layer with a indelible ink.
- The aim of the present invention is indeed to solve the above described problem by providing a document, such as a check and the like, with forgery prevention means which allows to detect a forgery, even automatically, clearly pointing out even attempts at concealing forgery.
- Within the scope of the above aim, a particular object of the invention is to provide a document wherein the forgery prevention means can be integrated in other elements which are normally provided in a check, so that said means may not be immediately detectable to the naked eye, making it even more difficult to reconstruct the region tampered with.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a document, such as a check or the like, which by virtue of its peculiar characteristics of execution is capable of giving the greatest assurances of reliability and safety in use.
- Not least object of the present invention is to provide a document, such as a check and the like, which can be obtained by using printing inks which are easily commercially available.
- This aim, the objects mentioned and others which will become apparent hereinafter are achieved by a document, such as a check and the like, with forgery prevention means, as described in claim 1.
- Further characteristics and advantages will become apparent from the description of some preferred but not exclusive embodiments of a document, such as a check and the like, with forgery prevention means, illustrated only by way of non-limitative example in the accompanying drawings, wherein:
- figure 1 is a schematic perspective view of a check upon which regions all with the same color characteristic are printed;
- figure 2 is a perspective view of a check upon which are provided regions alternated with other regions having different characteristics;
- figure 3 is a view of a document, such as a check, with mutually overlapping regions.
- With reference to the above figures, and in particular to figure 1, the document, such as a check and the like, with forgery prevention means, according to the invention, comprises a sheet-like element, generally designated by the reference numeral 1, which in the specific case of checks can be constituted by a paper sheet with or without a watermark, which defines at least a
first portion 2 for indicating the amount in digits, asecond portion 3 for indicating the amount in letters, and athird portion 4 for indicating the payee of the check. - An important peculiarity of the document according to the invention is constituted by the fact that regions printed with an ink which can be erased by chemical and/or mechanical action, designated by 10, are applied in said portions or in some of said portions. Said ink is selected so as to have a preset color response when it is illuminated by a light source of preset wavelength.
- In this manner, even if tampering has been performed in order to change the digits and/or the writing and the region has been subsequently reconstructed, by applying colors or the like, so as to make the forgery not evident to the eye, it is instead possible to clearly point out said forgery by means of a light source of a very specific type, such as for example a particular wavelength, so that the regions which have not been tampered with will have a certain color response which can be clearly pointed out visually, whereas the forged region cannot have the same color response, since the color does not have the same characteristics as the ink used originally.
- According to what is shown in figure 2, the same manufacturing criterion can allow to create a code which can be read, for example by means of a fiber-optics head or similar elements; in this solution,
first regions 20 andsecond regions 21 which have mutually different color responses when illuminated with light sources having preset wavelengths are provided; thus, essentially, when the first and second regions, which appear to have the same color in normal light, are illuminated by a source having a preset wavelength or two different wavelengths, said first and second regions appear to have mutually different colors and it is possible to obtain such a difference that the optical reading head can detect only the regions which respond to a certain wavelength, thus allowing to create a code which can be read automatically by the machine. - Obviously, if tampering is performed, the detection of said code is no longer possible, and in any case the different color response is immediately pointed out in the presence of the light source at a preset wavelength.
- According to what is shown in figure 3, it is possible to provide, in the portions where for example the amounts in digits, the amounts in letters or the payee are indicated, a
lower region 30 and anupper region 31 which have the same color, with the difference that theupper region 31 is produced with delible ink which responds to a preset wavelength of the light source, whereas the lower region is produced with indelible ink. - In this embodiment, if forgery is attempted, the forger removes the upper layer, without being immediately aware of the fact, so that upon subsequent verification performed with a light source of preset wavelength, in the region where the upper layer has been removed there will be a different color response which makes the forgery in the preset region immediately evident and obvious.
- As can be seen from the above description, it is thus possible, by applying regions with an ink which can be erased by chemical and/or mechanical action and which, if illuminated with a light source having a preset wavelength or wavelengths, has a different color response, to immediately point out that tampering has occurred, since even reconstruction of the region with other types of inks or dyes allows its detection.
- It should also be added to the above that it is possible to provide the regions with elements which are not immediately detectable as forgery prevention elements, since said regions might be provided with a normal pattern which constitutes the background of the entire document, so that said regions cannot be immediately distinguished from the other ones.
- Where technical features mentioned in any claim are followed by reference signs, those reference signs have been included for the sole purpose of increasing the intelligibility of the claims and accordingly such reference signs do not have any limiting effect on the scope of each element identified by way of example by such reference signs.
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- Document, with forgery prevention means, which comprises a paper sheet-like element (1) having defined on a surface thereof at least one portion (2,3,4) for writing indications, characterized in that regions (10,20,21,30,31) of said at least one portion for writing indications of said paper sheet-like element are printed with an ink which can be erased by chemical and/or mechanical action, said ink giving a preset color response when said regions are illuminated by a light source of preset wavelength in order to visually point out that tampering with parts of said regions has occurred.
- Document according to claim 1 characterized in that it comprises, in said at least one portion for writing indications, a first region (20) printed with a first ink which can be erased by chemical and/or mechanical action and a second region (21) printed with a second ink which can be erased by chemical and/or mechanical action, said first and second inks giving preset and mutually different color responses when said first and second regions are illuminated by a light source of preset wavelength or wavelengths in order to visually point out that tampering with parts of said regions has occurred.
- Document according to claim 2, characterized in that said first regions (20) and said second regions (21) constitute a code which is detectable by a fiber-optics reading head.
- Document according to claim 1 characterized in that it comprises, in said at least one portion for writing indications, at least one region is printed with a lower layer (30) of a first indelible ink and at least one upper layer (31) of a second ink which can be erased by chemical and/or mechanical action is printed on said lower layer, said second ink giving a preset color response, which is different from the response of said first ink, when it is illuminated by a light source of preset wavelength in order to visually point out that tampering with at least parts of said upper layer has occurred.
- Document according to claims 4, characterized in that said lower layer has a coloring which is substantially identical to the coloring of said upper layer.
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Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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ITMI911665 | 1991-06-18 | ||
ITMI911665A IT1248498B (en) | 1991-06-18 | 1991-06-18 | DOCUMENT OF THE CHECK TYPE AND SIMILAR WITH ANTI-COUNTERFEITING MEANS |
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EP0519374A1 EP0519374A1 (en) | 1992-12-23 |
EP0519374B1 true EP0519374B1 (en) | 1996-04-24 |
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EP92110055A Revoked EP0519374B1 (en) | 1991-06-18 | 1992-06-15 | Document, such as a check and the like, with forgery prevention means |
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EP (1) | EP0519374B1 (en) |
AT (1) | ATE137173T1 (en) |
DE (1) | DE69210104T2 (en) |
DK (1) | DK0519374T3 (en) |
ES (1) | ES2086025T3 (en) |
GR (1) | GR3019913T3 (en) |
IT (1) | IT1248498B (en) |
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FR2739322A1 (en) * | 1995-12-19 | 1997-04-04 | Ittah Aaron | Network payment card esp. for Internet payment |
WO1998043825A1 (en) * | 1997-04-02 | 1998-10-08 | Aaron Ittah | Payment instrument on all types of networks and particularly on internet |
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US3400003A (en) * | 1963-04-02 | 1968-09-03 | American Bank Note Co | Safety inks and documents |
GB1425028A (en) * | 1972-05-23 | 1976-02-18 | Metal Box Co Ltd | Security documents for example bank cheques or drafts |
DE2801015C2 (en) * | 1978-01-11 | 1983-01-13 | Jöllenbeck & Kasten Gesellschaft für Geschäftsdrucksysteme mbH, 4690 Herne | Identity card, e.g. check card |
FR2570101B1 (en) * | 1984-09-07 | 1987-09-25 | Sotimag | ANTI-FRAUD PROCESS FOR VALUE DOCUMENTS |
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- 1991-06-18 IT ITMI911665A patent/IT1248498B/en active IP Right Grant
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- 1992-06-15 ES ES92110055T patent/ES2086025T3/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1992-06-15 AT AT92110055T patent/ATE137173T1/en not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1992-06-15 DE DE69210104T patent/DE69210104T2/en not_active Revoked
- 1992-06-15 EP EP92110055A patent/EP0519374B1/en not_active Revoked
- 1992-06-15 DK DK92110055.8T patent/DK0519374T3/en active
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ES2086025T3 (en) | 1996-06-16 |
ITMI911665A0 (en) | 1991-06-18 |
DE69210104D1 (en) | 1996-05-30 |
ITMI911665A1 (en) | 1992-12-18 |
IT1248498B (en) | 1995-01-19 |
DE69210104T2 (en) | 1996-09-19 |
GR3019913T3 (en) | 1996-08-31 |
ATE137173T1 (en) | 1996-05-15 |
DK0519374T3 (en) | 1996-05-13 |
EP0519374A1 (en) | 1992-12-23 |
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