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WO2002018152A1 - Caracteristique de securite - Google Patents

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WO2002018152A1
WO2002018152A1 PCT/GB2001/001100 GB0101100W WO0218152A1 WO 2002018152 A1 WO2002018152 A1 WO 2002018152A1 GB 0101100 W GB0101100 W GB 0101100W WO 0218152 A1 WO0218152 A1 WO 0218152A1
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scratch
card
layer
portions
treatment process
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PCT/GB2001/001100
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Martin Johnson
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Scientific Games International Ltd.
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Priority to AU2001240817A priority Critical patent/AU2001240817A1/en
Publication of WO2002018152A1 publication Critical patent/WO2002018152A1/fr

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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41M—PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
    • B41M3/00—Printing processes to produce particular kinds of printed work, e.g. patterns
    • B41M3/005—Colour cards; Painting supports; Latent or hidden images, e.g. for games; Time delayed images
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
    • A63F3/06—Lottos or bingo games; Systems, apparatus or devices for checking such games
    • A63F3/065—Tickets or accessories for use therewith
    • A63F3/0665—Tickets or accessories for use therewith having a message becoming legible after rubbing-off a coating or removing an adhesive layer

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  • This invention relates to a security feature for a card of value, and more specifically to a card such as a lottery ticket or a so- called telephone card having information thereon which is obscured by an abradable or " scratch off" material coating so as to be secure inasmuch as that information supposedly cannot be viewed without firstly abrading or otherwise removing the scratch off material.
  • lottery tickets and telephone cards however are that depending on the probabilities defined by the lottery provider, only approximately one in five tickets may be of value, and perhaps only one in every 10,000 tickets may be of significant value whereas each and every telephone card has a predetermined credit value which can be used by anyone possessing a mobile telephone adapted for use on the particular network of the particular provider for whom the card was printed.
  • Typical values range from £5 to £50 and when it is considered that such cards are delivered in batches to retailers of all kinds throughout a particular country, the extremely security conscious approach of the network providers to production of these telephone cards can easily be understood.
  • the fraudster may sell compromised cards on a one-off basis, for example through public houses, local markets and the like.
  • the tape must remain on the card after compromise although it is barely noticeable because the majority of the scratch off layer is adhered thereto and thus complete removal of the tape necessarily significantly and recognisably impairs the scratch off layer as much thereof is removed with the tape.
  • scratch off materials are in widespread use, their inherent disadvantage is that removal of such layers by adhesive tape cannot be prevented on account of the nature of the material itself. Specifically, the essential requirement of the scratch off material is that it can be abradably removed from the usually varnished surface of the printed card, and accordingly the degree to which said scratch off adheres to the card must be limited.
  • a card having a predetermined value to a user of said card, said card having printed information thereon which must be visible before any reclaim of the value of said card can be effected, said information being obscured by an abradable scratch off layer prior to purchase of said card by a user, and characterised in that a substantially transparent varnish is applied over the scratch off layer in a pattern which ensures that said scratch off layer is only partially covered with said varnish.
  • the pattern is a spot or text format.
  • the pattern of varnish is a line pattern which meanders seemingly randomly over the surface of said scratch off layer.
  • the varnish pattern is comprised of defined alphanumeric characters to provide information.
  • a solid ink overprint is additionally applied to the scratch off layer either before or after the varnish patterned layer is applied.
  • a card having a predetermined value to a user of said card, said card having printed information thereon which must be visible before any reclaim of the value of said card can be effected, said information being obscured by an abradable scratch off layer prior to purchase of said card by a user, said scratch off layer having a free upper surface and a lower surface in contact with a surface of the card in the region of said information, and characterised in that specific portions of said scratch off layer are subjected to a subsequent treatment process after application over said information to provide said portions with a contrasting appearance to those portions where the treatment process was not effected such that the naked eye can immediately identify a pattern in the upper surface of said scratch off layer.
  • the treatment process comprises the compression of specific portions of said scratch off layer giving rise to an immediately recognisable contrast between compressed and non-compressed portions of said scratch off layer.
  • the treatment process comprises the application of an at least partially transparent compound such as a varnish or lacquer which partially impregnates the scratch off layer so as to darken or reduce or increase the gloss level on the surface of said scratch off layer when applied in specific portions thereof.
  • an at least partially transparent compound such as a varnish or lacquer which partially impregnates the scratch off layer so as to darken or reduce or increase the gloss level on the surface of said scratch off layer when applied in specific portions thereof.
  • the transparent compound may also be partially pigmented, preferably with a fluorescing compound.
  • the invention prevents compromise of scratch off layers using tapes as described above because on application of the tape, the fraudster must ensure that as much scratch off as possible is adhered to the tape, and this is accomplished by rubbing a hard implement over the back of the tape when adhered to the scratch off layer. As this is done, the contrast between the portions to which the treatment process of the invention has been applied and those to which it has not is effectively erased, reversed, or at least significantly diminished as to become no longer immediately recognisable to the naked eye, and thus a retailer can easily detect when a card has been compromised according to this method.
  • Figure 1 shows a section through a typical lottery or telephone card having a scratch off layer thereon
  • Figure 2 shows a plan view of the card of Figure 1 demonstrating the contrasting regions of the scratch off layer
  • Figure 3 shows a plan view of the card of Figure 2 having tape pressuredly applied over a portion of the scratch off layer.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a sectional view through a telephone card 2 consisting of a card substrate 4 which is having a variety of information thereon at 6 and a varnish layer applied thereover at 8 to seal the printed information and ensure that it is not smudged or otherwise impaired when the card is handled.
  • a varnish layer applied thereover at 8 to seal the printed information and ensure that it is not smudged or otherwise impaired when the card is handled.
  • there may be other printed layers applied before or after the printed layer 6 which may include security features such as confusion patterns or the like to further prevent compromise of the completed card through viewing that information to be covered by a scratch off layer.
  • a scratch off layer 10 is applied, and in accordance with one embodiment of the invention a lacquer or varnish layer 12 is applied in an immediately identifiable pattern over the scratch off layer 10.
  • regions 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 of the scratch off layer 10 where the varnish or lacquer was applied contrast starkly with the background region 24 of said scratch off layer, and these regions are immediately recognisable to retailers regardless of whether an additional solid ink overprint is applied to the scratch off layer before or after the varnish or lacquer layer.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne une carte à valeur remboursable (2). Cette carte présente des informations sécurisées (6) qui sont imprimées et qui doivent être visualisées de manière à obtenir le remboursement de la valeur de la carte (2), les informations sécurisées (6) se présentant généralement sous la forme de caractères alphanumériques recouverts d'un matériau à gratter (10). La couche de matériau à gratter (10) est ensuite soumise à un procédé de traitement subséquent, dans lequel des parties de la couche de matériau à gratter (10) sont traitées (12) et d'autres parties ne le sont pas, les parties traitées présentant ainsi un aspect visiblement différent par rapport aux parties non traitées. Les parties traitées sont disposées selon un motif qui peut se présenter sous la forme d'un texte ou de lignes méandriformes et empêchent la compromission de la carte au moyen de l'application sous pression d'un ruban adhésif permettant de retirer le matériau à gratter (10), du fait que pendant l'application sous pression du ruban de matériau à gratter (10), l'aspect des parties traitées et des parties non traitées de la carte est rendu identique, étant donné que le ruban rend uniforme de manière efficace les degrés de brillant des parties traitées et non traitées. Ainsi, après une application sous pression du ruban adhésif, le motif sur le matériau à gratter obtenu par le traitement de certaines parties disparaît et un revendeur peut facilement constater que la carte a été compromise.
PCT/GB2001/001100 2000-08-30 2001-03-14 Caracteristique de securite WO2002018152A1 (fr)

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AU2001240817A AU2001240817A1 (en) 2000-08-30 2001-03-14 Security feature

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GB0021126A GB0021126D0 (en) 2000-08-30 2000-08-30 Security feature
GB0021126.8 2000-08-30

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Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP1369840A3 (fr) * 2002-05-03 2003-12-17 Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG Etiquette pour l' occultation des informations
EP1920944A1 (fr) 2006-11-07 2008-05-14 Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG Surface à gratter et procédé pour sa fabrication
WO2009083873A1 (fr) * 2007-12-28 2009-07-09 Scientific Games Holdings Limited Système et procédé de détection de billets de loterie instantanée falsifiés
EP2158569A4 (fr) * 2007-06-19 2012-01-25 E2Interactive Inc Procédé et dispositif de sécurité de code pin de carte de fidélité

Citations (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2148795A (en) * 1983-09-30 1985-06-05 Norton & Wright Limited Improvements relating to security printing

Patent Citations (1)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2148795A (en) * 1983-09-30 1985-06-05 Norton & Wright Limited Improvements relating to security printing

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP1369840A3 (fr) * 2002-05-03 2003-12-17 Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG Etiquette pour l' occultation des informations
EP1920944A1 (fr) 2006-11-07 2008-05-14 Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG Surface à gratter et procédé pour sa fabrication
EP1920944B1 (fr) * 2006-11-07 2011-09-14 Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG Surface à gratter et procédé pour sa fabrication
EP2158569A4 (fr) * 2007-06-19 2012-01-25 E2Interactive Inc Procédé et dispositif de sécurité de code pin de carte de fidélité
WO2009083873A1 (fr) * 2007-12-28 2009-07-09 Scientific Games Holdings Limited Système et procédé de détection de billets de loterie instantanée falsifiés
AU2008345311B2 (en) * 2007-12-28 2012-05-03 Scientific Games Holdings Limited System and method for detecting compromised instant lottery tickets
US8366153B2 (en) 2007-12-28 2013-02-05 Scientific Games International, Inc. System and method for detecting compromised instant lottery tickets

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