High speed forms buffer
CA 2509686 C · Owner: Datacard Corporation · Inventors: Mccumber, Roger D.
Overview
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An apparatus (24) that stores and synchronizes printed forms (30) that are being transferred between a high speed forms printer (18) and a mechanism (16) for attaching plastic cards to the forms. The apparatus is also able to buffer the forms that are in progress in the printer should the card processing system need to be shut down or paused. The apparatus (24) creates a shingled stack of forms (30), with the bottommost form in the stack being fed to the attaching mechanism (16) as needed.
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- Filed January 8, 2004 and granted August 21, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 8, 2024.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 8, 2026.
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