EP1466755A2 - Wasserzeichen als Eckenverstärkung eines Blattes - Google Patents

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EP1466755A2
EP1466755A2 EP04251937A EP04251937A EP1466755A2 EP 1466755 A2 EP1466755 A2 EP 1466755A2 EP 04251937 A EP04251937 A EP 04251937A EP 04251937 A EP04251937 A EP 04251937A EP 1466755 A2 EP1466755 A2 EP 1466755A2
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Paul Howland
Nicholas George Pearson
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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
    • 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
    • B42D25/30—Identification or security features, e.g. for preventing forgery
    • B42D25/333—Watermarks

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  • the invention relates to improvements in sheets, and in particular to the use of a security feature which can be verified by rubbing together two parts of the sheet and documents made therefrom.
  • bank notes and other bank notes and other security require security features that can be easily recognised and verified by the public without the need for additional verification devices.
  • Security devices of the type described herein are intended for use on documents of value including but not limited to banknotes, fiscal cheques, travellers cheques, fiscal stamps, postal stamps, certificates of authenticity, brand protection articles, bonds, certificates, vouchers and the like.
  • Inspection of documents at a public level requires the feature to be overt or not to require additional aids to verify.
  • public features include windowed and embedded threads, cylinder mould watermarks, holographic foils and stripes, intaglio print, colourshifting or optically variable inks, thermochromic features, embossed or printed latent features. All these features will be familiar to those skilled in the art and they are also widely discussed within the patent prior art. It is important to note that several of the above features are not apparent until viewed or handled in the correct manner, e.g. latent images. Such features though not overt can still be authenticated using the human senses and handling alone and do not require the use of a secondary device or piece of equipment.
  • Teller assist features require the use of an additional device or piece of equipment to verify the feature. It is usual that the additional device is hand held and low cost but this is not always the case. Examples of teller assist features include luminescent inks, microprint, magnetic inks (where only presence is determined), barcodes, RFID devices and the like. Again those skilled in the art will be aware of such features and examples are widely reported within the prior art.
  • Covert features are usually highly secure and only detected using specialised equipment. Examples of covert features include coded magnetic threads, phosphorescent materials and specialist taggants that may be based on biological markers or specific chemical properties.
  • the invention therefore comprises a sheet having corners and sides joined at said corners, wherein corner reinforcing watermarks are provided at at least two corners, and at least one of which reinforcing watermarks has a border, at least a section of which border has a complementary shape with respect to and is located close to at least a section of a border of a further watermark.
  • the invention also provides a sheet having corners and sides joined at said corners, wherein edge reinforcing watermarks are provided at or covering the middle of at least two sides, at least one of which reinforcing watermarks has a border, at least a section of which border has a complementary shape with respect to and is located close to at least a section of a border of a further watermark.
  • the enhancement of the visible close juxtaposition of two watermarks provides an additional visual security feature.
  • the invention also provides a benefit in that the corner reinforcing watermarks help to even out the undulations normally present in a ream of paper containing security elements or other security features which, when stacked, create addition bulk.
  • the invention also provides a sheet having corners and sides joined at said corners, wherein corner reinforcing watermarks are provided at at least two corners, at least a portion of the reinforcing watermarks being embossed to provide embossings having a pattern dissimilar to that of the reinforcing watermarks.
  • a sheet of paper 10 made by hand or using a known papermaking machine, such as a cylinder mould or Fourdrinier machine.
  • a range of fibre types can be used in the making of such paper, including synthetic or natural fibres or a mixture of both.
  • the actual preparation of the fibres is unrestricted by the invention, and will depend on what effect it is wished to produce in the finished paper.
  • security paper used for security documents such as banknotes, passports, identification cards and so on, these need to be hard wearing, resilient and self-supporting and so an appropriate fibre mix must be selected.
  • a sheet can refer to a large sheet of paper which is cut into smaller sheets from which documents, such as banknotes, are made; or are such smaller sheets.
  • sides means the elongate edges joined at the corners of the sheet, rather than the flat planar surfaces (or faces) of the sheet.
  • watermarks 11 are provided in at least two, preferably adjacent, of the corners of the sheet 10 during the manufacture of the paper.
  • a watermark is created by well known techniques of varying the grammage of paper fibres so that in some areas the fibres are of higher grammage than the average grammage of the base paper layer, and in others they are of lower grammage. When viewed in transmitted light the areas of lower grammage are lighter and the areas of higher grammage are darker than the base paper, and the contrast between the light and dark areas can be very clearly seen.
  • Watermarks have been widely used as security features, as true watermarks are very hard to counterfeit particularly by photocopying techniques. They are also used as aesthetic features, e.g. in stationery, as complex patterns can be produced by watermark techniques. Traditionally watermarks have always tended to be located in the main body of the sheet or document in which they are produced so that they can clearly be seen. In the present invention, on the other hand, the watermarks are specifically located in the corners of the sheet. This has resulted in the surprising increase in stiffness of the corners which leads to a significant and unexpected reduction in corner folds'(dog-ears).
  • Another particularly effective watermark pattern is one that results in lines of higher grammage areas approaching the edges of the paper at between 55° an 35° to the edge perpendicular, and more preferably at 45°.
  • Figure 4 shows the results for a test developed for this study.
  • the test gives an angle to which a fold relaxes after it has been bent over with a known force. In this case, whether other factors are constant, the watermark increases the fold recovery angle because of the stiffness imparted by the watermark pattern.
  • the results of the specific patterns of Figure 2 are shown in Figure 4.
  • the stiffness of the paper increased where the watermark was made from a positive pattern having the effect of adding bulk to selected areas as compared to the thickness of the base paper layer, as opposed to a negative pattern where the main portion was thinner than that of the base paper layer.
  • corner reinforcing watermarks 11 can be combined with another watermark to enhance the security and aesthetic effect of the sheet.
  • at least one of the corner reinforcing watermark 1 has a shaped border 15 (which is not necessarily a contiguous border), at least a section of which is complementary to a portion of a border of a further visible watermark 16, such as a portrait watermark.
  • the aforementioned shaped section of border 15 allows the close juxtaposition of the two watermarks 11,16 to provide an aesthetic combination and space saving. This results in an improvement in security by using close registration and cooperation of the two watermark features 11,16, which makes it hard to counterfeit.
  • the gap between the two watermarks 11,16 is preferably no less than 3mm and more preferably in the range of 3 to 5mm.
  • the border 15 can include an internal border; and the further visible watermark 16 may be wholly surrounded by the corner reinforcing watermarks, as shown in Figure 10a.
  • watermarks 12 are created either at, or covering, the middle of each edge of the sheet 10, i.e. at North, South, East and West positions of the note when viewed face on.
  • the problems identified previously relating to damage at the middle of each of the edges of banknotes have been found to be significantly reduced by providing such reinforcing watermarks at the middle of each edge, as shown in Fig. 11, because of the increased stiffness and improved fold recovery in these regions.
  • the watermarks 12 are preferably positive and the preferred form include corrugations and/or elements of the design perpendicular to the likely direction of folding or rolling, i.e. parallel to the edges of the sheet 10.
  • edge reinforcing watermarks are also enhanced by providing one of its borders with at least a section which complements at least a section of a border of a wide watermark indicia 16, to which it is closely positioned.
  • the individual reinforcing watermarks 11, 12 may be discrete, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 11, or they may be joined together so that the watermark appears as a continuous frame around the whole sheet 10. Alternatively just some of the reinforcing watermarks 11, 12 may be joined, to provide an aesthetic pattern.
  • machine made paper is produced in continuous webs, which is subsequently cut to form individual smaller sheets.
  • the pattern of reinforcing watermarks 11, 12 produced on the web will need to be carefully designed to ensure that when the sheet 10 are cut, the watermarks 11, 12 are located at the corners and/or edges of the sheet 10.
  • the effective thickness of the paper in the document corners and/or at the edges can also be increased by providing embossings, preferably in the form of corrugations, at the corners or the edges having the reinforcing watermarks 11,12 in patterns similar to those of the reinforcing watermarks 11,12.
  • embossing can preferably be achieved by the intaglio printing process commonly used for printing security documents.
  • embossings can be used in addition to, or instead of the combination of the complementary combination of watermarks described above, to provide an improved security feature.
  • the embossings may be produced by an intaglio process, either with or without (blind) ink.
  • the embossings preferably fill an area bounded by at least a length of 10mm on each of the adjacent sides of each corner. More preferably the whole of each corner area is filled.
  • the embossings preferably consist of a plurality of stripes, each having a width between 0.5 and 3mm wide which are separated by gaps having a width lying in the range 0.5 to 3mm.
  • the stripes may be straight, wavy or curved and are preferably parallel.
  • the stripes of the embossings are preferably at an angle of between 70° and 111°,relative to the line of a corner fold set at 45° to one of the edges, and more preferably at an angle of 90°.
  • embossings may be provided by uninked die stamping.
  • the document may be varnished on one or both surfaces to improve durability of the embossings. Additionally the substrate may be coated on one or both surfaces to improve the durability of the substrate.
  • the embossed regions may be reinforced using a varnish layer on the front, or back of the embossing or on both the front and back of the embossing.
  • the forming cloth may be embossed with the reinforcing watermarks overlapping ( Figure 16) or adjacent ( Figure 17) or at any desired position between.
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SI200431648T SI1466755T1 (sl) 2003-04-03 2004-03-31 Vodni znaki za ojačanje vogalov lista
PL04251937T PL1466755T3 (pl) 2003-04-03 2004-03-31 Znaki wodne zabezpieczające rogi arkuszy

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GB2458485A (en) * 2008-03-19 2009-09-23 Rue De Int Ltd Improving adhesion of a security stripe or patch to paper sheets having reinforcing corner and edge watermarks
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GB2400075A (en) 2004-10-06
SI1466755T1 (sl) 2011-05-31
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