Record receiver having plural interactive leaves or a colorless – Having a colorless color-former – developer therefor – or... – Method of use – kit – or combined with marking instrument or...
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-19
2003-10-14
Hess, B. Hamilton (Department: 1774)
Record receiver having plural interactive leaves or a colorless
Having a colorless color-former, developer therefor, or...
Method of use, kit, or combined with marking instrument or...
C503S204000, C503S206000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06632773
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention pertains to heat-sensitive recording materials with security features, having a carrier paper with a recording layer which is arranged on one face and which contains colorant formers and organic colorant acceptors reacting with one another under the action of heat. In addition, the invention pertains to methods of checking the authenticity of the recording materials according to the invention.
2. Discussion of the Prior Art
Heat-sensitive recording materials have been known for a long time. These materials are predominantly used for recording fax messages which are sent via public telephone networks—the so-called telefax method. Additional fields of use for heat-sensitive recording materials are gradually gaining in significance as a result of their use as credit transfer forms or checks, diplomas, certificates, instruction leaflets for pharmaceutical products, receipts for games of chance of all types, postage stamps, sales slips, parking tickets from automatic parking machines and entry and travel tickets.
Various solutions have already been proposed in the past for avoiding or detecting counterfeits. In addition to the use of watermarks, in particular the use of fibers which fluoresce under ultraviolet radiation has been proposed, a small quantity of said fibers being mixed with the paper fibrous stock before sheet formation. Corresponding proposals for papers which should not be included in the field of heat-sensitive recording materials are found in AT E 37053 B and, according to DE 195 01 289 A 1, for a heat-sensitive recording paper. The incorporation of fluorescent fibers into the paper fibrous stock is disadvantageous from a production point of view, however, for example as a result of prolonged cleaning down times on the paper machine. At the same time, the waste from paper manufactured in this way can be recycled only to a very restricted extent, because of the synthetic fibers, which are obvious to the naked-eye.
DE 25 18 871 A 1 discloses, as a security feature for coated papers, the application of two substances of the same type, which contain at least one colorant former as an azo compound and at least one dye or a pigment in or to the carrier paper. In order to check authenticity, a reagent is applied to the paper by means of a stamp, felt pen or roll device, the substance in or on the carrier paper reacting together with the reagent in the form of a colorant formation. According to this reference, the security feature described in this way can be combined with other security features, such as watermarks.
Security features of the type of added dyes in the paper stock or on the paper surface are also disclosed in DE 296 17 106 U 1, with regard to the addition of pigments based on anthraquinone, and in EP 0 072 481 B 1 with regard to an admixture of 2-(4′-amino-3′-sulfophenyl)-6-methylbenzothiazole-7-sulfonic acid or the salts thereof. These last-mentioned proposals do not all relate to the field of heat-sensitive recording materials. The use of azine dye as a security feature is not disclosed.
DE 27 47 349 C 2 discloses, as the sole security feature for anti-counterfeit papers which are intended to be used in particular as payment instructions to be filled out by hand, the use of pyrenesulfonic acids or their metal salts, which are either added to the paper stock or with which the paper web is impregnated, which results in the complete coloring of the paper surface.
EP 0 844 097 A 1 discloses a heat-sensitive recording material in which, as a first security feature, at some locations a latent image is printed onto the back by means of a security ink containing a fluorescent reagent. In order to form a second security feature in the form of a watertight image on the back of the heat-sensitive recording material, the security ink contains an agent which repels water. The security ink containing the fluorescent reagent that is used as the pigment or dye and the water-repellent agent is contained or dispersed in an aqueous carrier which, in addition to these components, also contains binders, such as thermoplastic resins, which are intended to improve the fastness of the image. The drawback with this proposal is the costly manufacture by means of printing technology and the fact that the arrangement of preprint by means of the conventional printing process is made more difficult by the water-repellent character of the security ink.
SUMMARY OF THE DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The present invention, then, wishes to provide heat-sensitive recording materials in which, with the aid of simple equipment which is available anywhere, a number of possibilities of examining the authenticity of the paper employed are possible. A further object of the invention is the development of a security feature which permits checking of the authenticity of the paper employed far more clearly than a preparation over the entire area. At the same time, the invention wishes to provide effective protection against attempts at counterfeiting. Another object of the invention, during the manufacture of a heat-sensitive recording material, is to dispense with those components which are to be added to the paper stock and which, like fluorescent fibers for example, can result in the problems mentioned at the beginning within the production process. Finally, a further important object is that, if required, so-called preprints can be applied without difficulty to the back of the heat-sensitive recording materials without interference in the printing process having to be feared as a result of components, such as binders or hydrophobicizing agents, present in the preparation applied to the back.
In order to achieve the object, according to a first and particularly simple embodiment, the invention provides a heat-sensitive recording material with a security feature which comprises a carrier paper with a recording layer which is arranged on one face and which contains colorant formers and organic colorant acceptors reacting with one another under the action of heat. The heat-sensitive recording material is defined in that, as the security feature, a water-soluble dye which fluoresces under UV radiation is applied without binder in a regular or irregular pattern, invisible under daylight, to the entire surface of the face opposite the face provided with a recording layer, that is to say the back, in such a way that the entire surface has the pattern.
As opposed to the previously known embodiments of security papers, in which fluorescence which is effective over the entire area was achieved either by putting appropriate dyes into the fibrous stock or by means of a preparation, the heat-sensitive recording paper of the present invention, as a result of the type of its patterning, offers a security component which goes beyond the security feature to be detected within the context of an authenticity check using an alkaline substance to be applied, and cannot readily be imitated.
An irregular pattern in the sense of the present invention preferably corresponds to a fine-grained structure which, put another way, can be described as a sprinkling, while a regular pattern preferably corresponds to a striped structure. In the acid or neutral pH range, the back, to which dye is applied, appears to be slightly colored when viewed by the naked eye under daylight.
The advantage of the water-soluble dye, applied without binder, according to the present embodiment is that the provision of preprints does not come up against the problems such as are known in the coatings known from the prior art which contain binders or hydrophobicizing agents.
In the present description, preprints are to be understood as imprints which are applied by means of flexographic or offset printing, in particular dry or waterless offset printing, for example, such as form inscriptions, in which the fields in the form are filled out by means of a thermal printer during subsequent proper use.
With regard to the aforementioned embodiments of the invention, dyes which ha
Kranz Erich
Reimann Michael
Stork Gerhard
Süssenbach Karsten
Wagner Wolfgang
Cohen & Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane
Hess B. Hamilton
Mitsubishi HiTec Paper Flensburg GmbH
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