EP3362296B1 - Process and device for producing book-like identification documents - Google Patents

Description

Field of the invention:

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing book-type identification documents, each having an individualized data sheet, in particular an individualized data card, and preferably a plurality of book-like arranged book sheets for receiving visa (Visa).

Prior art and background of the invention:

Identification documents, in particular travel documents, such as passport books, serve to verify the identity of a person. Travel documents are issued by public authorities in the exercise of their sovereign functions, for example to allow the document holder to cross the border into another state.

Passbooks therefore, in addition to identifying the person (personalizing) data on a data card that has the ID-3 format of the German passport in accordance with ISO / IEC 7810 in the version in force at the time of priority of the present application, further books on which So-called visas (visas) of the states into which the person enters. The data card, the passbook sheets and a cover are bound together in a stapling process. In addition to passbooks, there are also passport documents, such as identity documents. Such an identification document is the German identity card currently issued in the form of an ID-1 ID card in accordance with ISO / IEC 7810 in the version valid at the time of priority of the present application.

The datasheet (passport) of a passport document includes the personalizing data such as name, date and place of birth, nationality, facial image and the document holder's personalization (personalizing the document), as well as a document identifying the document Serial number, the date of issue of the document and the issuing authority and the type of passport (the document individualizing data). Furthermore, the data card is equipped with various security features that allow a third party to verify the authenticity of the identification document (Verifikationsmerkmale), for example, with a Guillochendruck, with a pointing, for example, the federal coat of arms kinegraphic object and other security features. The book pages of a German passport also have authenticity features on their pages, such as a guilloche print and a reproduction of the national coat of arms. In addition, individualizing (personalizing) data are also indicated on at least one of these booklets, namely information about the place of residence and biometric data (size, eye color) of the document holder, the date and place of issue and the serial number of the passport. The latter is attached as a point perforation through all passbook sheets.

There are different types of passport documents. In Germany, a distinction is made between a normal passport, a provisional passport, a child passport, a diplomatic passport, a service passport, a foreigner passport, a passport for refugees and a passport for stateless persons. The child passport and the temporary passport do not have a data card. In this case all individualizing data are placed on the booklets of the identification document. In the case of the normal passport, there are also different sized book parts with 16 or 24 booklets, corresponding to 32 or 48 book pages. The German passports differ by the color of the respective cover and by other different types of entries on the data card.

The data card of passbooks may typically be in the form of a plastic laminate with a laminated film piece into which the required information is incorporated, for example, a polymeric material. For the production of passport books, the data card may for example be provided with a so-called pass tab, which protrudes laterally beyond the intended format of the data card and is stapled together with the passbook sheets. This goes out DE 10 2008 031 654 A1 show that such data cards, which are made exclusively of polycarbonate layers, not suitable to incorporate this in a passport. Therefore, it is common to produce data cards with a card body, in which at least one layer is incorporated, which consists of a different plastic material, which is suitable for incorporation in a passport book and allows easy turning of the data card in the passport book. This plastic layer is incorporated so that it forms the tab with which the data card is integrated into the passport book.

For the purpose of affixing personal details to passports, please refer to DE 10 2006 061 214 A1 describes a device with which the personal Information on the data side of otherwise finished book-like documents are printed. For this purpose, the document is opened on the page to be printed. For printing, the device has a color printing system based, for example, on the principle of the inkjet printing method. Furthermore, the device has a lamination module that allows lamination of the surface of the data page of the passport with a holographic film.

In the manufacture of passport products, as in DE 10 2006 061 214 A1 can be seen, used production equipment in which the individual document components are sequentially collected and folded in long pass lines in the flow. Each individual collation module of such systems for stacking a sheet has a length of, for example, 2 m. These systems must each be fitted to the respective product type.

Relevant prior art under Article 54 (3) EPC is the document WO 2016/131882 A1 which discloses a method and an apparatus having the features of claims 1 and 9, with the difference that the individualizing data to be applied to the booklet originates from a computer system.

A method and an apparatus for the production of passport products also goes from the EP 0 364 730 A2 out. In the print-on-demand area, continuous lines are used in which single sheets (white, without artwork or watermarks) are printed and the sheets are sequentially stacked on top of each other.

The objects underlying the invention:

In the device off DE 10 2006 061 214 A1 the data page is only personalized on the finished passport. However, this is disadvantageous because the subsequent lamination for covering the personalizing print data on the data page does not allow secure connection of the lamination foil to the data page, so that detachment of this foil remains possible and the document can then easily be falsified. There is also the problem that a faulty personalization of the entire document leads to rejects. This is particularly complicated and expensive if the document contains an RFID chip in an RFID circuit (transponder). Committee can also arise when a pseudo-fault is detected with an inspection camera, which would lead to discarding the at least partially completed passport book. Incidentally, the known methods and devices for producing book-like identification documents, in particular passports, have the disadvantage that the devices are very large, since the book pages are stacked on an elongated gathering path as in conventional book or magazine production. As a result, these systems are very large and therefore complex and space consuming. In addition, the problem arises that a quick change in the Production of book-like documents with different book components, ie, for example, with different binding covers and / or book pages with different printing substrate (artwork) or varying number of books to be included, is practically not possible. In this case, the system must be emptied before the conversion and then converted. This requires time and manpower, so that increased costs and longer production times for the individual batches are to be accepted. If, for the sake of a short production time, several systems are provided for the different types of documents, the problem of increased costs arises in any case.

Finally, it has also been found that the conventional methods for producing the book-type identification documents are error-prone, so that occasionally documents with erroneous information are produced on the data sheet and / or the book sheets. This inevitably leads to rejects, which is also unacceptable in the case of, for example, with an electronic semiconductor chip equipped data cards for cost reasons.

Therefore, the present invention is based on the following objects: to provide a flexible manufacturing method that allows the production of different types of book-type identification documents, in particular also with changing (fluctuating) capacity utilization; Creation of a defect-resistant manufacturing process with which the committee of the book-like identification documents is to be minimized; To provide a small and compact manufacturing device, with which different types of book-like identification documents without conversion can be produced; Creation of a manufacturing process that requires only a short lead time to produce the book-type identification documents.

definitions:

To the extent that terms below are used in the singular form, for example, 'Book Sheet', 'Book Sheet Sheet', 'Sheet Supply Module', 'Control Module', 'Sheet Sheet Deployment Module', 'Data Rendering Module', 'Assembly Module', 'Assembly Point', etc. , may include the respective plural forms, namely 'worksheets', 'worksheets', 'data-sheet provisioning modules', 'book-sheet provisioning modules', 'data reproduction generating modules', 'gathering modules', collection points, etc., as appropriate not expressly stated otherwise. If a corresponding term in the Singular or plural is used, therefore, at least one corresponding item is meant.

Insofar as the terms "individualized" and "individualizing" are used below, this is to be understood as a property of the identification document, for example a passport, according to which the identification document clearly differs from other identification documents, for example by a serial number. This property results from given security features of the identification document. If the terms 'personalized' and 'personalizing' are used below, this means that the identification document can be assigned to a person. For this purpose, the identification document contains at least one (biographical) indication which relates to the person, for example her name or a characteristic of this person, such as her eye color.

As far as the terms 'data sheet' and 'data card' are used below, this is to be understood as meaning a specific part of an identification document, namely the part which contains reproductions of the essential personal details of the person to whom the identification document is assigned. It is a flat, preferably rectangular support for individualizing information to be displayed. A datasheet is to be understood as meaning both a stiffer and a flexible object, that is to say both an object that can not be twisted or twisted and twisted easily (data card) and an object which is easily bendable and twistable. The format of the data sheet (the data card) depends on the type of identification document in which the data sheet is to be integrated. For example, the datasheet may have one of the formats ID-1, ID-2 or ID-3 according to ISO / IEC 7810 in the version in force at the time of priority of the present application. The data sheet may be made of a material suitable for the purpose of the invention, for example of a plastic (polymer), of paper, cardboard, glass or other materials or mixtures of these materials, and optionally filled with reinforcing materials. The datasheet is preferably made by lamination from laminate layers, for example, made of one or more materials suitable for lamination. The data sheet may be formed of a polymer selected from a group comprising polycarbonate (PC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), their derivatives such as glycol-modified PET (PETG), polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyvinyl butyral (PVB), polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), polyimide (PI), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polystyrene (PS), polyvinylphenol (PVP), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), thermoplastic elastomers (TPE), in particular thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer (ABS) and their derivatives, polyamide (PA) and / or paper (cellulose) and / or cardboard and / or glass and / or metal and / or a ceramics. In addition, the data sheet can also be made of several of these materials, in particular if the individual layers are formed from different materials. The data sheet preferably consists of PC or PC / TPU / PC. The polymers may be either filled or unfilled. In the latter case they are preferably transparent or translucent. If the polymers are filled, they are opaque. The thickness of the data sheet is preferably 250 to 950 microns.

As far as the term 'book-like identification document' is used below, it is to be understood as a security document which has more than one sheet, which are combined and / or joined into a book or magazine.

As far as the term 'book sheet' is used below, either a single, a "book page" corresponding sheet or, if the "book pages" are inserted in the form of double sheets in a book-like identification document, a double sheet to understand. In any case, a booklet is to be understood in each case from a book leaf sheet obtained by separating sheet piece.

Broad features of the invention and preferred embodiments:

According to a first aspect of the present invention, the above objects are achieved with a method for producing book-type identification documents each associated with a person and each containing an individualized data sheet and at least one individualized book sheet. The book-type identification document may further include non-personalized book sheets.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the above objects are also achieved with an apparatus for producing the book-type identification documents.

1. (a) Bereitstellen des individualisierten Datenblattes;
2. (b) Bereitstellen eines Individualisierungs-Datensatzes, der in dem individualisierten Datenblatt enthaltene individualisierende Daten enthält, durch Auslesen aus dem Datenblatt;
3. (c) Bereitstellen eines Buchblattbogens zum Herstellen des mindestens einen Buchblattes;
4. (d) Vereinzeln des mindestens einen Buchblattes aus dem Buchblattbogen;
5. (e) Erzeugen von Wiedergaben von individualisierenden Daten auf und/oder in dem Buchblattbogen oder dem mindestens einen aus dem Buchblattbogen hergestellten Buchblatt unter Verwendung des aus dem Datenblatt ausgelesenen Individualisierungs-Datensatzes;
6. (f) Zusammentragen des individualisierten Datenblattes und des mindestens einen Buchblattes zu einem Blattstapel; und
7. (g) Verbinden des individualisierten Datenblattes und des mindestens einen Buchblattes in dem Blattstapel miteinander.

The method according to the invention comprises the following method steps:

1. (a) providing the individualized data sheet;
2. (b) providing an individualization data set containing individualizing data contained in the individualized data sheet by reading from the data sheet;
3. (c) providing a booklet sheet for producing the at least one book sheet;
4. (d) separating the at least one booklet from the booklet sheet;
5. (e) generating reproductions of individualizing data on and / or in the worksheet sheet or the at least one book sheet produced from the worksheet sheet using the individualization data set read from the data sheet;
6. (f) collating the individualized data sheet and the at least one book sheet into a sheet stack; and
7. (g) connecting the individualized data sheet and the at least one book sheet in the sheet stack with each other.

According to the invention, process step (e) is carried out before process step (f), i. the reproductions of individualizing data on and / or in the booklet sheet or the at least one book sheet are generated prior to the collation of the individualized data sheet with the at least one book sheet.

Subject to the abovementioned sequence of method steps (e) and (f), the above method steps can be carried out successively or at least partly simultaneously in the stated sequence, but additional method steps can be carried out before and / or after and / or between these method steps. In particular, process step (d) in a preferred embodiment of the production process according to the invention can be carried out after process step (e), i. the areas of the book sheet corresponding to the book sheets are preferably provided with reproductions of the individualizing data prior to singulating the book sheets from the book sheet. As a result, a little error-prone method is achieved, for example with regard to errors in the correct position gathering of the book pages, the selection of the data sheet associated booklets, the number of book sheets and their order in the stack, because related book sheets are held together until shortly before gathering nor in the book sheet , In particular, this also avoids that individual books are twice or not included in the book-like identification document.

It is also possible that the method steps (a) and (c) are interchanged. Furthermore, the separation of the book sheets from the book sheet according to method step (d) for the case that the book sheets produced by singling from the book leaf sheet, but not previously the book sheet sheet, with the individualizing data are provided before generating the reproductions of individualizing data on and / or in the book sheets according to method step (e). In a particularly preferred embodiment of the present invention, the data contained in the individualized (personalized) data sheet are first available before the at least one book sheet or the book sheet sheet is provided with the individualizing data so that the book sheets can be provided with the correct data.

The device according to the invention comprises the device modules of claim 9.

Thus, individualized booklets are produced and optionally together with non-individualized booklets and with the individualized datasheet, optionally also a flyleaf collected on a collection and stacked, for example in a cassette, and preferably aligned with each other, releasably fixed together, for example by brackets, and finally connected together, preferably by sewing. The assembly point is characterized in that it is stationary and therefore the document components are not stacked successively along a collation path as in conventional collating devices. For gathering therefore preferably lifting and tilting robots are used, which stack the document components successively on the assembly point. Insofar as it is stated here that the collection point is stationary, it is to be understood that the collection point does not move when the document components are deposited at the assembly point but can be moved out of the document components after production of a stack in order to bring it closer to a transport device such as a robot, to allow it to pick up the stack from the collection station and convey it to the jig module for joining the document components, or to transport the stack directly to the jig module for joining the document components.

With the present invention, it is achieved, in particular, that the document produced is more secure against forgery than a book-type identification document produced using known production methods. The with the in DE 10 2006 061 214 A1 As described above, the documents produced have the disadvantage that the personal details are only applied to a data page after the passbook has been produced, whereupon a lamination film is applied to the data page to protect these data. As a result, counterfeiting of the document can not be completely ruled out because the foil applied can be removed by a skilful counterfeiter so that the personal information can be manipulated. In contrast, the data are generated on or in the data sheet with the inventive method prior to collating and connecting the data sheet with the other components of the book-like document, so that a very secure sealing of this data is possible.

In addition, in the known method, the further disadvantage that an error-prone personalization can lead to a total loss of the document, which leads in particular in the case of provided with RFID circuits with RFID chip documents to a costly failure. This disadvantage is avoided with the invention, since a faulty personalization only leads to the faulty printed sheet of book sheets must be discarded, so that the value added is maintained in the book process. In addition, it is also avoided that the book has to be opened again for individualization, which results in a reduced handling effort and also a reduced waste during the unfolding process. Since it is not necessary For example, in order to completely reestablish the identification document, it is also achieved that the average production time of the document is lowered.

By stacking the individual document components on a respective collecting point of the device for collating the document components, a very flexible method implementation is also made possible because the components can be collected in any order. In addition, various types of book-type identification documents can be produced in a mix.

A book-type identification document is preferably formed from an individualized data sheet (data card) and several book sheets (visa pages), one or more of which are also individualized. In addition, a portion of the identification document may be further formed by a cover sheet embedding the stack of data sheet and book sheets. Further, the identification document may also include a flyleaf that is in the document in front of the datasheet and behind the book sheets, so that the stack formed by the book sheets and the data card is bordered by the flyleaf. The German citizen passport contains either 16 or 24 booklets. The cover has a predetermined color, which allows a clear quick identification of this type of passport book. It consists for example of a cardboard cover, which is covered with a linen cloth. Alternatively, the cover can be made without tissue. The data sheet contains reproductions of the essential personalizing data of the person to whom the document is associated, as well as other data personalizing the document. In addition, the data sheet security features that allow authentication of the document, such as a hologram and a kinegraphic element, and optionally an electronic memory, such as an RFID chip, which is located in an RFID circuit (transponder) have. The book sheets are preferably in the form of double sheets in the passbook, so that in the case of the German citizen passport book either 8 or 12 such double sheets are included in the passport. One or more of the booklets of the book-type identification document also contain reproductions of the personal data of the person to whom the document is associated, such as the eye color, size and place of residence, as well as other data personalizing the document, such as a serial number and dates of issue and place as well as the issuing agency. The book sheets and the flyleaf are preferably made of paper (header paper) and are preferably printed with a print pad (artwork). It can be a security print, preferably a guilloche print. In addition, other patterns, in particular Emblems, coats of arms and the like, be attached to the book sheets and the flyleaf. All book sheets are provided with the same printing substrate. In addition, some of the book sheets may have a print that allows for inscription with individualizing data, for example, row layouts with caption legends (eg, "Location,""EyeColor,""Size," and the like). The individualized data sheet is preferably connected by means of a mounting tab (pass tab) with the other components of the passport book. The flyleaf is preferably connected by means of a Fälzelbandes with the other components of the passport book. The fold tape reinforces the flyleaf in the seam area to prevent the seam from tearing out during use. The data sheet and the book sheets are connected to each other and optionally to the flyleaf preferably by sewing and this in turn by gluing to the cover. In principle, all these components can also be connected to one another by means of an adhesive method. The flyleaf, the datasheet as well as the booklet are linked together in one operation. After joining these document components and the cover can be connected to the precursor thus prepared.

The at least one control module, which is designed to store and provide an individualization data record, which is formed by individualizing data contained in the individualized data sheet, can be formed by a digital computer equipped with a programmable and readable storage medium. By providing the individualization data record, which is clearly specified by the provided individualized data sheet, it is possible to control the attachment of the individualizing data on the book sheets. The information of this data record can be used to label the book sheets associated with the data sheet with the individualizing data. This prevents misallocation so that the datasheet and book sheets associated with the same person are collected.

The complete individualization data record can be retrieved by the control module when the data sheet is provided by reading in the data from the storage medium (database) of the digital computer. According to the invention, the data are read from the data sheet, the data in this case preferably being compared with an already stored individualization data record and thus verified. In the latter case, the individualization data set is preferably retrieved from the data sheet by an electronic storage medium, for example a memory chip, located in the data sheet. This memory chip can are in an electronic RFID circuit and thus contactless or alternatively be readable via electrical contacts on the data sheet. Alternatively, an individualized datasheet may be provided based on a request triggered by an identification code associated with the individualization dataset. This identification code can be formed for example by a mark on and / or in the individualized data sheet. Also in this case, the individualization data record can be read from the storage medium of the control module.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the production method further comprises the following method step:
(b ') providing a bill of material data record for defining document components needed to produce the identification document.

For this purpose, in a preferred development of the present invention, the control module is designed to store and provide a piece list data record for determining document components required for producing the identification document, i. that this information can be retrieved. The storage medium of the control module is preferably used for storage.

As a document components come on the one hand, the individualized data sheet and the book sheets and also a cover and possibly a flyleaf into consideration. Since the nature and number of these document components can vary from identification document to identification document, the parts list of the document components to be assembled together and thus the corresponding piece list data record also vary. For example, depending on the type of a German passport book to be produced, the bill of materials can contain information on a respective cover slip with a cover color, a flyleaf, a data sheet (data page) and a certain number of booklets. In the case of passport books of other countries, the BOM may also contain information on other varying parameters of these document components and / or other document components.

The parts list and thus the parts list data record are created together with the individualization data record and stored in the storage medium of the control module. When providing a data sheet, the individualization data record together with the BOM data record from the storage medium of the control module be read out (activated). Alternatively, the BOM data record can also be read from the storage medium in the control module after the individualization data record has been read from the data sheet (for example, from its electronic storage medium) and verified with the individualization data set stored in the storage medium of the control module.

Accordingly, the individualization data record in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a piece list data set is assigned, which contains an indication of the nature of the cover. As a result, the piecelist data record is uniquely assigned to the determined individualization data record. Accordingly, the individualization data set in a further preferred development of the present invention, a BOM data set to be assigned, which contains information about the number of at least one book sheet. With these developments of the present invention, the book-type identification document, based on the provided individualized data sheet, can be assembled without errors.

The at least one device module for providing the individualized data sheet is preferably formed by a magazine from which the data sheets (data cards) can be output individually. For example, this may be a slot in which the data sheets are stacked. Alternatively, the data sheets can also be supplied individually, for example via a conveyor belt. For feeding the data sheets with this device module are used in the field of conventional transport devices, such as suctions and belts.

Furthermore, the production device according to the invention has at least one device module for providing a book sheet for producing the at least one book sheet. This booklet sheet provisioning module may be formed by a magazine in which non-individualized booklet sheets are located. Since it should be possible to produce book-type identification documents of different types with the manufacturing device, which have different types of book sheets, the device module for providing the cover covers preferably in the form of a multiple magazine, such as a paternoster magazine, with a lift for the subjects, the different Types of book sheets contain, or another magazine designed to store different types of bookbinding sheets. For outputting the booklet sheets from this device module are used in the field conventional transport devices, such as squeegees or bands. For the separation of a top sheet of sheets from underlying sheets may be provided conventional separation devices, such as blowing devices or friction roll systems.

If appropriate, the production device according to the invention may also have at least one device module for providing cover slips. In the case where the production apparatus is to produce book-type identification documents of different types having different cover slips, the device module for providing the cover slips may preferably be in the form of a multiple magazine, for example a paternoster magazine, with a lift for the compartments containing different types of cover slips or another magazine designed to store different types of cover slips. To output the cover slips from this device module are used in the field conventional transport devices, such as grippers.

Furthermore, the production device according to the invention can also have at least one device module for providing attachment leaves. Since it should also be possible to manufacture book-type identification documents with different form sheets with the production apparatus, this apparatus module can also be in the form of a multiple magazine, for example a paternoster magazine, with an elevator for the compartments containing different types of attachment sheets or another magazine be designed for storage of different types of attachment leaves. For dispensing the extension leaves from this device module are used in the art conventional transport devices, such as suction bars or bands. For separation of a top flyleaf of underlying sheets conventional separation devices may be provided, such as blowing devices or friction roller systems.

The device module for generating the reproductions of individualizing data on and / or in the booklet sheet and / or in at least one book sheet produced from the book sheet can be realized by a printing device. Since the reproductions to be generated are individualizing, in particular personalizing, a digital printing device (non-impact printing device) is advantageous because it provides the required flexibility with regard to the individual reproductions to be printed. An especially suitable printing apparatus for this purpose is an ink-jet printing apparatus or a xerographic printing apparatus. Since it may be necessary to print both sides of the booklet sheet or a book sheet or several book sheets, it may be advantageous to have such a printer for the two sides provided. Alternatively, the sheet of paper can be turned after printing on a front side and then printed on the back so that only one printer is needed. For this purpose, the printer is designed in a suitable manner. After printing, the pressure is preferably checked by means of a quality monitoring device. For this purpose, a camera can be installed, with which the pressure is recorded and the recorded image is evaluated in a computer.

Furthermore, the device module for separating the at least one book sheet from the book sheet sheet is formed by a mechanical separating device, preferably a cutting device. Alternatively, a punching device can also be used. As cutting devices (cutting plotter), those with preferably driven rotary blades and laser cutting devices have proven to be particularly suitable.

In a further preferred embodiment of the present invention, the at least one device module for separating the at least one book sheet from the book sheet sheet each have a storage table on which the book sheet sheet can be placed.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the at least one storage table each have a first, a second and a third manipulation area (pick positions). The booklet sheet can be stored in the first manipulation area and can be singled into a plurality of book sheets in the second manipulation area. The resulting by separating books are removed in the third manipulation of the storage table.

Since the booklet sheet is first in the booklet sheet providing module or in the device module for generating the reproductions of individualizing data, from there to the delivery table of the device module for separating the at least one book sheet from the book sheet sheet transported, then separated into book sheets and finally the scattered book pages be transported from the storage table to one of possibly more collection points of the gathering modules for stacking the document components, it is advantageous to spatially separate these different process steps on the tray table from each other to ensure independent processing in these steps. For this purpose, the book sheet sheet can first be stored in the first manipulation area, then conveyed to the second manipulation area and cut there. Subsequently, the resulting by separating books can be forwarded to the third area of manipulation, from where they are transferred to one of the collection points. The transfer of the Booklet sheet from the first to the second picking position can be realized, for example, by means of suction strips or belts, which are translationally movable on the tray table, or by means of a workpiece carrier system with rotating tables or plates on which the book sheet or book sheets are held by vacuum application.

The device module for generating the reproductions of the individualizing data may be a printing device, preferably an inkjet printing device. The booklet sheet is preferably printed with a security print (artwork) and optionally with a print that allows a label with individualizing data, for example, with line arrangements with legend captions. The security print and the further imprints preferably form a field matrix on the sheet of book sheet with field areas which correspond to the book sheets to be separated therefrom.

Furthermore, the device module for gathering in a preferred development of the present invention has, on the one hand, at least one collecting point for stacking up the individualized data sheet and the at least one book sheet. On the at least one assembly point, the individualized data sheet and the individualized and non-individualized book pages are collected and stacked in a stack of sheets. Optionally, there is also included the flyleaf in the stack.

A collection point is preferably formed by a workpiece carrier on which the document components can be stored. The workpiece carrier can in the usual way have a storage surface for the document components. The collecting station can be designed in the form of a cassette, in particular in the form of a swivel cassette, which is movable between two end positions, ie as a device in which the document components are stacked successively and thereby, for example, on an inclined storage level with at least one reference edge, for example stop bar, can be arranged, against which the document components slip under the influence of gravity. This allows the document components are aligned edge to edge against each other. In particular, two stop strips, which are arranged at a right angle to each other, may be provided, against which the document components abut under the influence of gravity. The stop plane can form a lowest level with a reference corner in the case of the contact angle of the two stop strips in this case, so that the Document components are aligned edge to edge to each other. Optionally, the collection point can also be formed with a vibrator to force the individual stacked there constituents document components. Alternatively or additionally, a sliding mechanism with mechanical slides or brushes can be provided, which pushes the stacked document components against the stop bar (s) and thereby brings about an edge-exact alignment. Furthermore, a camera device can also be provided with the aid of which the stacking up of the document components is monitored and controlled in a positionally accurate manner.

To convert the obtained from a book-leaf sheet by separating and individualized book leaves from the delivery table to the assembly point, the at least a collator module each have a lifting and pivoting robots, such as a SCARA robot (S elective C ompliance A ssembly R obot A rm), or a Fast Picker or a gantry crane. In particular, each collating module can have a lifting and pivoting robot.

The stacked documents components (if necessary, flyleaf, data sheet, book sheets) can be preferably fixed releasably against each other after gathering to hold the relative positions of the individual components. The stack can preferably already be fixed on the assembly point. For this purpose, common devices can be used in the field, for example gripping devices with which the stack is gripped on both sides and the components are clamped in the stack. For example, two or three such gripping devices or other fixing devices may be used, each gripping a stack of sheets. These fixing devices are preferably not arranged stationary at the collection point, but may, together with the stack fixed by them, be conveyed to another location in the production device where at least one device module for connecting the individualized data sheet and the book sheets in the stack of sheets is located , Thus, the device module for collating the individualized datasheet and the at least one individualized booklet and the device module for linking these document constituents constitute separate devices. Such a construction is advantageous because multiple device modules for collation and multiple device modules for interconnection may also be provided between each other Document stack can be exchanged. This achieves a very flexible structure.

For transferring the fixed stack of the document components from the collection point to the device module for connecting, for example to a sewing machine, preferably a transport device may be used, which may be formed for example by a robot, in particular a SCARA robot, fast picker or gantry robot. So that the transport device can take over the stack from the collection point, the collection point can be transferred from a first position, in which the document components are stacked on the collection point, to a second position, in which the transport device can take over the stack. These two positions can be end positions that a swivel cassette can occupy when the collection station is designed as a swivel cassette.

The device module for connecting the document components together may be configured as a sewing machine. Such devices are well known in the bookbinding art. Alternatively, a device for bonding by gluing can be used. This adhesive device can also already be arranged at the collection point and be designed to provide the document components to be stacked before placing them on an already deposited component at the collection point on the edge side with an adhesive (for example, to brush) and then store exactly in register on the document component already there in that the constituent located there is adhesively bonded to the newly deposited constituent.

If the identification document also has a binding cover, the manufacturing device may also have at least one feeding and mounting device for the binding covers. This device is adapted to supply a binding cover from a device module for providing the binding covers to the already produced stack of the data sheet, the book sheets and optionally a flyleaf and inextricably linked to this. In this device, the stack can be connected via an outside flyleaf with the cover.

To carry out the method according to the invention, a data sheet (a data card) can first be provided on request. The data sheet contains individualizing information relating to the person to whom the data sheet is assigned. The data sheet can contain, for example, an electronic storage medium, for example a memory chip, in which the personal and document-specific information is stored. This memory chip can be located in an electronic RFID circuit and thus contactless or alternatively via electrical contacts on Datasheet be readable. Alternatively, this can also serve a visual code, such as a document number or a barcode, which can be read with a suitable optical reading device.

In a first method alternative, the individualization data set can be provided and for this purpose read out of the storage medium of the control module. Furthermore, the individualization data record stored in the data sheet can also be read out and compared with the data record read from the storage medium of the control module and thus verified. If no individualization data record is stored in the data sheet according to a second method alternative, the individualization data record is read from the storage medium of the control module in response to the request on the basis of which the data sheet is provided. This request can be triggered by means of an identification code. For example, the identification code may be the serial number of the identification document to be produced.

In a preferred development of the present invention, the individualization data record can also be assigned a piece list data record which, for example, contains an indication of the type of cover sheet for later process steps. As a result, the piecelist data record can be uniquely assigned to the individualization data record determined. Accordingly, in a further preferred development of the present invention, the individualization data record can also be assigned a piece list data record which contains an indication of the number of the at least one book sheet. With these developments of the present invention, the book-type identification document, based on the provided individualized data sheet, can be assembled without errors. Finally, the BOM data record can also contain information about further document components, for example, whether the identification document to be produced also contains a flyleaf or another component.

Based on the BOM record, the individual document components can be provided:
If a cover is part of the identification document to be produced, this can be provided in the form of the requested type from the magazine provided for this purpose. The cover can in a process variant with the bound stack of the data sheet and the book sheets and optionally a flyleaf be merged and then connected. For this purpose, the cover can be laminated, for example, after sewing the stack on this. The sewing thread is covered. Alternatively, the cover sheet can be conveyed in another method variant to the collection point of a collection module and stored there, so that the cover sheet is compiled with the data sheet, the book sheets and optionally a flyleaf to a stack.

First, if appropriate, a flyleaf in the form of the requested type is provided from the magazine provided therefor. Subsequently, the requested individualized data sheet (the data card) can be removed from the magazine and also transported to the collection point of the collation module. The data sheet can also be stored there and brought with its mounting tab to rest on the inside of the flyleaf, so that the transition from the mounting tab to the datasheet is at the fold line of the flyleaf, which is located at the location of the later to be added cover.

Furthermore, a booklet sheet of the requested type can be taken from the corresponding magazine and conveyed in a first method variant to the device module for generating the reproductions of individualizing data on and / or in the book leaf sheet. In this case, the sheets are provided with reproductions of the data individualizing the book sheets prior to separation from the book sheet sheet.

For further tracking of the book sheets to be separated therefrom in their field areas and optionally on the data sheet, a marking, for example in the form of a bar code, can be applied to the book leaf sheet, for example on an edge region of the respective field regions on the book leaf sheet in a later trimming of the finished bound book-like identification document optionally separated again, for example, cut off. This marking can, for example, code a document identification number (serial number) with an additional numbering of the individual book sheets. These markings identify the book sheets and the data sheet and secure them against exchange or misplacing using cameras or other readers. The markings can be applied in particular by means of a printing process.

In this first variant of the method, the booklet sheet can then be provided with reproductions of the individualizing data from the individualization data record, if appropriate on both sides. However, only a few of the field regions of the field matrix are to be printed on, since most of the field regions correspond to book sheets which typically serve to accommodate visas in the finished book-type identification document and therefore have no reproduction of individualizing data. For example, the first 3 book sheets located in the completed book-type identification document may be provided with the individualizing data. These reproductions can be opened and / or inserted with the device module provided for this purpose on the page (s) of the booklet sheet, for example with an ink-jet printing method.

Subsequently, several book sheets are formed by separating from the book sheet sheet, which are then collected in the desired number together with the individualized data sheet and optionally a flyleaf to a stack.

The manufacturing process can be carried out with this procedure already with a very compact manufacturing device, because, for example, no long gathering distances for the individual document components are needed. Rather, it is possible to merge the individual components to a common collection point. For this purpose, conventional automated handling devices, such as pick-and-place robotic systems with gripping or suction devices, can be used. In addition, a very flexible production is thereby made possible because different types of document components from respective subjects of magazines, such as paternoster magazines, specifically removed and fed to the gathering process. This makes it possible that different types of book-like identification documents can be produced in a manufacturing device without retrofitting. This has the further advantage that the lead time of the production of a book-type identification document can be significantly reduced, because the capacity utilization can increase considerably because of the no longer required changeover times.

To separate the book sheets from the book sheet according to this first method variant, the printed book sheet can be stored in the first manipulation area on the tray. There, the position of the book sheet can be finely adjusted for subsequent processing steps. Thereafter, the booklet sheet can be transferred to the second manipulation area. For this purpose, the booklet sheet can be held by a squeegee and moved by this. In the second Manipulation area individual book sheets can be obtained from the book leaf sheet by separating. For this purpose, in particular a cutting method can be used, for example a cutting method with preferably driven circular blades or a laser cutting method.

The book sheets produced in this way can then be conveyed from the second manipulation area into the third manipulation area, from where they are successively transferred to the collecting point and stacked there on the already existing document components.

If a book-type identification document is to contain more book sheets than can be obtained from a book sheet sheet by separating, a second sheet of book sheets can be removed from the magazine and treated in the manner indicated above, with reproductions of individualizing data in this case preferably not on the Book sheet to open and / or be introduced.

According to a second variant of the method, the book pages are provided with the reproductions of the individualizing data after being singulated from a book leaf sheet. In this case, too, the advantages explained above for the first variant of the method result from conventional methods. As in the case of the first variant of the method, identification marks can also be applied to the book sheets here. The relevant statements apply accordingly in this case. While a book sheet is being provided with the reproductions, other reproduced book sheets may already be conveyed to the jig assembly module and stacked there with the other document components.

In this variant of the method, the book leaf sheet without generating the reproductions and, where appropriate, markings on and / or in the book sheet can be transferred from the book sheet sheet providing module directly into the first manipulation area on the delivery table of the separating device. There, the position of the book sheet can be first fine-tuned as in the first method variant. Subsequently, the booklet sheet can be transported in the second manipulation area. There, the book sheets can be formed by separating from the book leaf sheet. Some of these book sheets may then be individually conveyed to the device module for producing reproductions, such as by imprinting or impressing, of individualizing data on and / or in the book sheets provided on both sides with the reproductions and conveyed after generating the reproductions in the third manipulation area of the tray table, from where they are successively transferred to the collection point and stacked there on each other and optionally releasably fixed against each other. Thereafter, the stack may be conveyed to the device module for joining the document components in the sheet stack.

All documents constituents, which are finally collected on the collection point to a stack, can be releasably fixed by means of suitable gripping devices or other fixing devices. This determines their relative positions to each other.

Thereafter, the document components (data sheet, books, possibly flyleaf) are connected together in the fixed stack, preferably with the sewing method. Alternatively, an adhesive method can also be used.

Finally, a further reproduction of individualizing data can be introduced into the book sheets, for example with at least one perforation passing through all the book sheets together. These perforations can be introduced, for example, with a punching process in the booklet stack.

If several collating modules are provided, each with a collecting point, several stacks of document components, for example for different book-like identification documents, can be produced in parallel. For this purpose, in each case a lifting and pivoting robot are provided with which the document components are stacked on the individual stacks.

Thereafter, the bound sheet stack can be trimmed, so that, for example, the edge areas in which the above-mentioned markings are located, are separated and the stack is reduced to a standard size.

Subsequently, the cover sheet is fed from a device module for providing cover sheets to the bound sheet stack so as to enclose it from the outside. The cover is preferably connected to the stack by gluing. In particular, a flyleaf in the stack can be glued to the inside of the cover.

If an error should occur when creating, for example, the book sheets, or when stacking the document components of the identification document at the collection point, a previously not supplied data sheet can be transported to a parking position. In the case of a renewed collation of the document components belonging to this data sheet, the data sheet can then be introduced from the parking position into the method. In this case, when re-providing the data sheet as described above, the individualization data record and the BOM data record for attaching the associated individualizing data and for selecting the required document components of the identification document to be produced can be read out.

Fig. 1

eine Dokumentenkarte in einer schematischen Schnittansicht;

Fig. 2

ein buchartiges Identifikationsdokument (Reisepass) in einer schematischen Schnittansicht;

Fig. 3

einen Buchblattbogen mit darauf angeordneten Feldbereichen zur Ausbildung von Buchblättern mit darauf angebrachter Individualisierung;

Fig. 4

eine schematische Darstellung einer erfindungsgemäßen Herstellvorrichtung zur Durchführung des erfindungsgemäßen Verfahrens gemäß einer ersten Verfahrensvariante;

Fig. 5

eine schematische Darstellung einer erfindungsgemäßen Herstellvorrichtung zur Durchführung des erfindungsgemäßen Verfahrens gemäß einer zweiten Verfahrensvariante;

Fig. 6

einen Schneidplotter in einer schematischen Draufsicht;

Fig. 7

ein Verfahrensschema der ersten Verfahrensvariante.

For a more detailed explanation of the invention serve the figures and examples explained below, which are merely illustrative examples of certain embodiments, but not limitations of the scope of the invention. They show in detail:

Fig. 1

a document map in a schematic sectional view;

Fig. 2

a book-like identification document (passport) in a schematic sectional view;

Fig. 3

a booklet sheet with thereon arranged field areas for the formation of booklets with attached customization;

Fig. 4

a schematic representation of a manufacturing apparatus according to the invention for carrying out the method according to the invention according to a first method variant;

Fig. 5

a schematic representation of a manufacturing apparatus according to the invention for carrying out the method according to the invention according to a second variant of the method;

Fig. 6

a cutting plotter in a schematic plan view;

Fig. 7

a process scheme of the first process variant.

In the figures, like reference numerals designate like elements and / or elements having the same function. The figures do not always show the objects to each other in scale. Furthermore, the size ratios of individual elements to those of others in a figure or between the figures are not in each case to scale shown to each other.

In Fig. 1 there is shown an individualized document card (datasheet, passport) 100 made by the method according to the present invention. In the following description of the figures, a passport is named as an identification document by way of example. In principle, however, in each case other identification documents are meant as well.

The passport card 100 is formed by a laminate of a plurality of polymer layers 110, 120, 131, 132, 133, for example of polycarbonate films. The illustration shows the layers although limited by borderlines for purposes of illustration. However, these are no longer visible after performing a lamination because they are fused together. The document layer is formed at the very top by a transparent polymer end layer 110, for example made of polycarbonate, including a layer of an individualized film section 120 and at the bottom a layer composite of a polymer layer stack piece 130. This layer composite is (not shown) by a central RFID layer based on an opaque polymer support layer 131 with an RFID circuit of RFID chip 135 and RFID antenna on the support layer, a the RFID chip in a recess receiving compensating layer 132nd and below an opaque cover layer 133 formed. The passport card, for example, has the format ID-3 according to ISO / IEC 7810 in the version in force on the priority date of the present application, if the card is incorporated into a passport. Laterally projecting on the card material is a document card flap 140 which is made of a textile material which is fusible or interspersed with a fusible material. This tab is connected to the card material by hot melt welding.

The individualized passport 100 is in Fig. 2 shown incorporated in a passport 200. The passport is constituted by a coverlet 210, a flyleaf 220 with folding tape 221, the passport providing the individualizing reproductions of data, and a plurality of passbook sheets (book sheets, visa pages) 230 (shown here only three). The flyleaf, the passport and the passbook sheets are connected to each other by means of a stitching thread 240. In Fig. 2 only the location of this thread is indicated. The Fälzelband strengthens the bond in the seam area. The flyleaf is connected to the cover by adhesive bonding.

The visa sides 230 are formed from a book leaf sheet 300 (hereinafter Visaseitenbogen), for example made of paper, by being separated from this. Such a booklet sheet is in Fig. 3 shown. In the present case, the booklet sheet contains 16 field regions 400, which are arranged in a 4 × 4 field matrix. The sheet of paper is in some of the Field areas already individualized by reproductions of 500 individualizing data, such as the eye color and size of the passport holder, the date and place of issue of the passport and the issuing authority, are imprinted in these field areas.

The production device according to the invention is in Fig. 4 shown schematically. It is formed by a module row 2000 for producing the visa pages 230, furthermore a device module 3000 for providing the individualized passport card 100, a device module 4000 for providing the flyleaf 220 and a device module 5000 for collating the individualized passport card, the individualized visa pages and optionally the flyleaf. In addition, the manufacturing apparatus has further subordinate device modules, namely the sewing machine 6000, with which the document components can be bound in the sheet stack, a device module 7000 for trimming the bound sheet stack and a device module 8000 for feeding a cover cover 210 and for connecting the cover cover to the bound one sheet stack. This device module is associated with a device module 8100 for providing cover slips. The individual device modules are controlled by means of a higher-level control module 1000. For the sake of clarity, the communication between the device modules 6000, 7000, 8000 on the one hand and the control module 1000 on the other hand is not shown.

The control module 1000 is implemented by conventional plant control (eg, PLC control) that sends execution commands to the individual device modules. Data from sensors as well as data supplied directly from the supplied document components (for example, by reading data from the chip 135) are transmitted to the control module.

The control module 1000 is logically connected to a magazine 2100 for providing a visa page sheet 300. If different types of passbooks are to be produced in the production device, in which visa pages 230 of different types are to be integrated, an exchange magazine is available for this purpose, for example a paternoster magazine from which different types of booklet sheets can be taken. For example, the formats of the booklet sheets may differ, for example because booklet sheets for producing the passport 200 are to be formed with a different number of visa pages for a passport 200. This magazine can be realized by conventional devices in the field of sheet feeding. For individual removal of the booklet sheets, the magazine may comprise a separating device, for example a blowing device or a friction roller device, with the one uppermost (or alternatively lowermost) sheet can be taken from sheets piled up in a stack of sheets.

This magazine sheet 2100 is followed by a device module 2200 for generating renderings 500 of individualizing data. This device module may be formed by a printer, in particular an inkjet printer. Any standard printer or inkjet printer can be used. This device module may additionally have a turning station, in order to provide the book sheet sheet after printing on a front side on the back with reproductions of the individualizing data.

The printer 2200 is followed by a device module 2300 for separating the at least one book sheet from the book sheet sheet. This device module may be formed by a cutting plotter.

An example of a 2300 cutting plotter is in Fig. 6 shown schematically. The cutting plotter has a storage table 2310 on which a visa side sheet 300 can be placed. So that it can be fixed on the storage table, the storage table, for example, a vacuum device with zoned vacuum (accessible through openings in the table surface, not shown) have. The storage table has three manipulation areas, namely a first manipulation area 2311, in which the book sheet is first deposited, a second manipulation area 2312, in which the book sheet is separated into individual visa pages 230, and a third manipulation area 2313, from which the individual visa pages of removed from the storage table.

Furthermore, moveable clamping bars 2320, 2320 ', 2320 "which can be moved parallel to the longitudinal side of the delivery table between the manipulation areas are arranged on the delivery table 2310. A first terminal strip 2320 is movable between the first manipulation area 2311 and the second manipulation area 2312 second clamping strip 2320 'is movable between the first, the second and the third manipulation region 2313, and a third clamping strip 2320 "is movable between the second manipulation region and the third manipulation region. By means of the clamping bars, the visa side sheets 300 can be transferred from the first to the second and the visa sides 230 from the second to the third manipulation area.

Furthermore, the cutting plotter 2300 has a separating device 2330 which is movably arranged above the second manipulation region 2312. It may, for example, be a traveling carriage with a circular blade made of polyurethane-impregnated felt. Alternatively, the separating device may also be formed by a laser cutting device.

In the Fig. 4 shown arrangement of the device modules 2100, 2200, 2300 (first device variant) is used to carry out a method according to a first method variant in which the visa side sheets 300 are first provided with the reproductions 500 of the individualizing data before the individual visa pages 230 are separated from a book leaf sheet. If a method according to a second variant of the method is to be carried out, in which the booklet sheets are first separated into the individual visa pages and these are then printed with the reproductions of the individualizing data, an alternative arrangement of the modules is to be provided (second device variant). This is in Fig. 5 shown. Unlike in the case of in Fig. 4 In the case of the manufacturing apparatus shown, the two apparatus modules 2200 and 2300 are shown in FIG Fig. 5 reversed. Otherwise, there are no differences between the manufacturing devices that are in Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 are shown. In the case of the second device variant, the cutting plotter 2300 is disposed downstream of the booklet sheet providing module 2100, and the device module for generating the reproductions of individualizing data (printer) 2200 is located downstream of the cutting plotter.

For conveying the individual document components between the device modules 2100, 2200, 2300 are used conventional transport devices, such as conveyor belts, grippers, suction devices, Reibrollensysteme and the like, which move the document components in each case translationally (only schematically represented by arrows). For example, the visa side sheets 300 or visa pages 230 can be moved from the magazine 2100 to the printer 2200 and from the printer to the cutting plotter 2300 (first device variant) or from the magazine to the cutting plotter and from there to the printer by means of a friction roller system arranged along a transport path (second device variant) are transported.

The magazine 3000 for providing the individualized passport card 100 may be formed by a slot for receiving a plurality of passport cards. If different types of passports 200 are to be produced with the production device, this magazine can also be a change magazine, for example a paternoster magazine in which different subjects Passcards of different types, such as different card sizes, are. Such magazines are known.

The magazine 4000 for providing the flyleaf 220, like the aforementioned magazines, may be formed by a conventional sheet-like material supply system. Since the header sheets are typically made of paper, this magazine, like the magazine 2100 for providing a visa page sheet 300, may include a separator, such as a blower or a frictional roller device, with which a top most sheet can be removed from sheets stacked in a sheet stack.

For collating the document components, namely the flyleaf 220, the passport card 100 and the visa pages 230, on the collecting station of the device module 5000, for example, a pick-and-place robot system with gripping or suction devices, in particular a SCARA robot or a gantry crane used are shown (only schematically by arrows). In order to increase the processing capacity of the manufacturing device, a plurality of such collection points can be provided with robots that are loaded in parallel.

The assembly station of the device module 5000 is provided with devices which allow a register-accurate stacking of the individual document components (not shown). The collecting station is preferably formed by a cassette, for example a swivel cassette. It is particularly preferred to first place the flyleaf 220 in the cassette, then place the passcard 100 thereon, and finally place the visa pages 230 on the passcard. Optionally, the document components located in the stack are already aligned edge-to-edge after depositing a portion of these components by shaking. In any case, there is finally an edge-exact alignment of the entire sheet stack. For orientation, the collection point or the cassette is arranged obliquely, preferably in such a way that the collection point tilts towards a corner, so that the document components in the sheet stack therein are aligned edge-to-edge relative to one another via this corner or the collection point / cassette edges forming this corner , In addition, a camera system can be provided, with which the stacking is checked (also not shown). The data obtained by the camera system may be fed to the control module 1000, for example, to check the accuracy of the selected document components and to match their order in stacking with the data stored in the control module. So one register-accurate stacking is made possible, the transport and stacking system, such as the SCARA robot, designed to fine-adjust the position of each document component.

Further, this device module 5000 may include means for releasably fixing the document components in the formed sheet stack (not shown). This fixing device can be formed for example by conventional clamping devices, which can be moved in particular. Thereby, they can be conveyed to the downstream sewing machine 6000 together with the fixed sheet stack. For this purpose, conventional transport devices may be provided. For example, the clamping devices may be mounted on a traveling chain as a transport device, so that they can be moved back and forth between the position at the collection point and the position on the sewing machine.

The sewing machine 6000 is preferably formed in a conventional manner for binding the sheet stack to form the finished passport 200.

The sewing machine 6000 may be arranged downstream of further processing modules, for example, an individualizing punching device for introducing the serial number of the passport 200 through all visa pages 230 (not shown).

Further, the sewing machine 6000 is preferably followed by a device module 7000 for trimming the bound sheet stack, which serves to trim the bound sheet stack to the desired standard size. In addition, any markings that serve to identify the assembled document components during the manufacturing process are removed.

The device module 7000 for trimming the bound sheet stack is finally followed by a device module 8000 for feeding a cover sheet 210 and for connecting the cover sheet to the bound sheet stack. This device module is further associated with a device module 8100 for providing the cover slips.

The magazine 8100 for providing the cover sheet 210, like the magazine 3000 for the passport cards 100, may be formed by a conventional system. For example, the cover sheets may be stacked in a tray in the magazine. If different types of passports 200 are to be produced with the production device, this magazine can also be a change magazine, for example a Paternoster magazine in which coverlets of different types, for example of different colors, are located in different compartments. The device module 8000 is adapted to receive a binding cover from the magazine, so that the bound sheet stack of attachment sheet 220, passport card 100 and visa pages 230 can rest on its inside, and to glue the sheet stack with the binding blanket.

The above-described device modules 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 8100 may further be followed by quality control devices, with which intermediate products and the completed passport are checked for correctness (not shown). Also between these device modules, the product to be processed can be conveyed by means of conventional transport devices.

With the manufacturing device according to the invention, the inventive method can be carried out. In Fig. 7 the first variant of the method is shown schematically in several process steps. The method comprises in preferred embodiments the following method steps:
First, a passport card 100 is taken out of the magazine 3000 containing the passport cards (step 1). The data stored in the electronic chip 135 in the passport card is read out and transmitted to the control module 1000 (step 2). Then the individualization data set and the piece list data record assigned to the passport card are read out of the memory of the control module and transmitted to the individual modules 2100, 2200, 2300, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000 of the production device ( Step 3). The individualization data record contains the details of the person to whom the passport is assigned, as well as passport personalization parameters such as the serial number, the date and place of issue of the passport and the issuing authority. The bill of material data set contains the parts list of the document components 100, 210, 220, 230 which are required for the production of the passport 200. This includes, for example, information about the type of coverlet 210 (cover color), the flyleaf 220 and the visa page 230. In the case of passport books from other countries, the BOM may also contain information on other varying parameters of these documentary components and / or other document components.

Alternatively, a unique passcode 100 individualizing code, for example a barcode on the passport card, can be read and after reading this Codes thereupon the individualization data set and the parts list data record are read from the memory of the control module 1000 and transmitted to the modules 2100, 2200, 2300, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 8100 of the manufacturing device.

As an alternative to this, the data stored in the chip 135 of the passport card 100 can be present in the form of an individualization data record and a parts list data record and can be read out and transferred to the control module 1000. There, these data can be compared with the data stored in the memory of the control module. The adjusted data is then transmitted to the modules 2100, 2200, 2300, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 8100 of the manufacturing device.

After acquiring the required data for producing the visa pages 230, a visa page sheet 300 is subsequently provided from the magazine 2100 provided therefor (step 4). For example, the visa page sheet already has a standardized layout (artwork) for the selected type, for example a security print, in particular a guilloche print, as well as a form for individualizing data to be printed, such as pre-printed fields and legends.

In the first variant of the method described here, the visa page sheet 300 is then fed to a printer 2200. There, the visa page sheet is printed with reproductions 500 of the individualizing data (step 5). Preferably, only fields of some visa pages on the visa page sheet are printed with the data, while most pages remain blank. If necessary, the visa page sheet is turned in order to be able to attach reproductions of data on the back too.

Thereafter, the printed visa side sheet 300 is further processed by a cutting plotter 2300 to separate the individual visa pages 230 from the visa side sheet (step 6).

In a second process variant (in Fig. 7 not shown), the visa side sheet 300 is first separated by means of the cutting plotter 2300 into individual visa pages 230. Thereafter, some of these visa pages are provided by the printer 2200 with the renderings 500 of the individualizing data. If a visa page is already provided with reproductions of individualizing data, this can already then be conveyed to the assembly location of the device module 5000, while still other visa pages are provided with reproductions. Therefore, some of these steps can be done simultaneously.

In parallel, on the basis of the control module 1000 to the magazine 4000 for providing header sheets, a header sheet 220 associated with the selected passport card 100 is extracted (step 7) and transferred to the assembly location of the device module 5000 for collation (step 8). ,

Thereafter, the passport card 100 taken out from the magazine 3000 is also transferred to the collecting point of the device module 5000 for collation (step 9). The passport is placed in the correct position on the there already arranged and open flyleaf 220.

Finally, the individualized visa pages 230 are likewise placed in the correct position on the stack of flyleaf 220 and passport card 100 (step 10).

The individual document components 100, 220, 230 are releasably fixed in the stack by means of clamping devices provided for this purpose (step 11). The thus fixed stack is then transferred to a sewing machine 6000 and tied there to a passport (step 12). An inlet is formed.

Subsequently, the visa pages 230 can be provided with reproductions of further individualizing data, for example the serial number of the passport 200, by punching the number through all the visa pages (step 13). For this purpose, the stack is opened so that only the visa pages are stacked on top of each other.

Thereafter, the inlet provided with the perforation can be trimmed to a standard size (step 14). In this case, if appropriate, edge regions can be cut off, on which there are markings which have served to identify the document components of the inlets during its production.

Subsequently, the bound and possibly provided with the perforation inlet is merged with the cover sheet 210. For this purpose, the binding cover is removed from a corresponding magazine 8100 (step 15) and laid, for example, in a cassette of the device module 8000, so that the inside of the cover has upwards. The insert hammered in by the end blade 220 is coated on the outside surface with an adhesive (step 16) and then placed on the cover blank so that the inlet connects to the cover (step 17).

Reference numerals:

100

Data sheet, data card, passport card

110

Polymer termination location

120

individualized foil section

130

Polymer layer stack-piece

131

Polymer carrier layer

132

compensation layer

133

opaque top layer

135

chip

140

Documents Maps tab

200

Passport, book-type identification document

210

Einbanddecke

220

endpaper

221

Fälzelband

230

Visaseite, (pass) booklet

240

basting thread

300

Booklet sheet, Visaseitenbogen

400

Field area of a field matrix

500

Reproduction of individualizing data

1000

control module

2000

Module series for the production of the book sheets

2100

Device module (magazine) for providing a booklet sheet

2200

Device module for generating reproductions of individualizing data, (inkjet) printers

2300

Device module for separating the at least one book sheet from the book sheet sheet, cutting plotter

2310

tray table

2311

first manipulation area

2312

second manipulation area

2313

third manipulation area

2320

terminal block

2330

separating device

3000

Device module (magazine) for providing the individualized data sheet, magazine for providing passport cards

4000

Device module (magazine) for providing the flyleaf

5000

Device module for gathering the individualized data sheet and the individualized book sheets

6000

Device module for connecting the individualized data sheet and the book sheets, sewing machine

7000

Device module for trimming the bound sheet stack

8000

Device module for feeding a binding cover and connecting the binding cover with the bound sheet stack

8100

Device module (magazine) for the provision of cover slips

Claims (14)

1. Method for producing book-like identification documents (200), which in each case are assigned to one person and in each case comprise one individualised data page (100) and at least one individualised book page (230), wherein the method comprises the following method steps:

   a) Provision of the individualised data page (100);

   b) provision of an individualising data set, which comprises individualising data contained in the individualised data page (100), by reading out from the data page (100);

   c) provision of a book page sheet (300) for producing the at least one book page (230);

   d) separating of the at least one book page (230) from the book page sheet (300);

   e) generation of reproductions (500) of individualising data on and/or in the book page sheet (300) or the at least one book page (230) which is produced from the book page sheet (300), making use of the individualising data set read out from the data page (100);

   f) gathering of the individualised data sheet (100) and of the at least one book page (230) to form a page stack; and

   g) joining of the individualised data page (100) and of the at least one book page (230) in the page stack with one another,

   wherein method step (e) is carried out before method step (f).
2. Method for producing book-like identification documents (200) according to claim 1, characterised in that the individualised data page (100) and the at least one individualised book page (230) are gathered together on a collection point to form the page stack.
3. Method for producing book-like identification documents (200) according to any one of the foregoing claims, characterised in that the book pages (230), before separation from the book page sheet (300), are provided with reproductions (500) of the data individualising the book pages (230).
4. Method for producing book-like identification documents (200) according to any one of the foregoing claims, characterised in that the method comprises the following method step:
   (b') provision of a parts list data set for determining the document component parts necessary for producing the identification document (200).
5. Method for producing book-like identification documents (200) according to any one of the foregoing claims, characterised in that a part of the identification document (200) is further formed by a binding cover (210).
6. Method for producing book-like identification documents (200) according to claim 5, characterised in that a parts list data set is assigned to the individualising data set, which contains an item of information about the nature of the binding cover (210).
7. Method for producing book-like identification documents (200) according to any one of the foregoing claims, characterised in that a parts list is assigned to the individualising data set, which contains an item of information about the number of the at least one book page (230).
8. Method for producing book-like identification documents (200) according to any one of the foregoing claims, characterised in that, after the gathering, the page stack is fixed in a detachable manner.
9. Device for producing book-like identification documents (200), which in each case are assigned to one person, and which in each case contain an individualising data page (100) and at least one individualising book page (230), wherein the producing device comprises:

   (i) At least one device module (3000) for providing the individualising data page (100);

   (ii) at least one control module (1000), which is configured such as to store and provide an individualising data set which contains the individualising data contained in the data page (100);

   (iii) at least one device module (2100) for providing a book page sheet (300) for producing the at least one book page (230);

   (iv) at least one device module (2200) for producing reproductions of individualising data on and/or in the book page sheet (300) and/or the at least one book page (230) produced from the book page sheet (300);

   (v) at least one device module (2300) for separating the at least one book page (230) out of the book page sheet (300);

   (vi) at least one device module (5000) for gathering the individualised data page (100) and
   the at least one individualised book page (230) to form in each case a page stack; and

   (vii) at least one device module (6000) for binding the individualised data page (100) and the at least one individualised book page (230) in the page stack to one another; and

   (viii) means for reading out the individualising data set from the data page (100) and for transferring the individualising data set (100) to the device module (2200), in order to produce reproductions of individualising data on and/or in the book page sheet (300) and/or the at least one book page (230).
10. Device for producing book-like identification documents (200) according to claim 9, characterised in that the at least one device module (2300) for separating the at least one book page (230) out of the book page sheet (300) comprises in each case a depositing table (2310), on which the book page sheet (300) can be deposited.
11. Device for producing book-like identification documents (200) according to claim 10, characterised in that the at least one depositing table (2310) comprises in each case a first (2311), a second (2312), and a third (2313) manipulation region, wherein the book page sheet (300) can be deposited in the first manipulation region (2311), in the second manipulation region (2312) can be separated individually into several book pages (230), and, in the third manipulation region (2313), the book pages (230) produced by the individual separation can be removed from the depositing table (2310).
12. Device for producing book-like identification documents (200) according to any one of claims 9 to 11, characterised in that the at least one device module (5000) comprises, for the gathering, in each case a collection point for stacking the individualised data page (100) and the at least one individualised book page (230).
13. Device for producing book-like identification documents (200) according to any one of claims 9 to 12, characterised in that the at least one device module (5000) comprises in each case a raising and pivoting robot for the purpose of the gathering.
14. Device for producing book-like identification documents (200) according to any one of claims 9 to 13, characterised in that the control module (1000) is configured such as to store and provide a parts list data set for the determining of the document component parts (100, 210, 220, 230) necessary for producing the identification document (200).

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