Card jacket protecting card and apparatus for manufacturing the same

Abstract

A card jacket capable of closely holding a card therein has a front wall formed from a front film, and a back wall formed from a back film, and has three sealed sides and one open side. The front film is a composite film including a reinforcing film, a background-color layer formed on one surface of the reinforcing film to color the reinforcing film in a background color, and a transparent surface film laminated to the background-color layer. The transparent surface film is embossed with an embossed pattern.

1 . A card jacket capable of closely holding a card therein, and having three sealed sides and one open side, and having one side wall formed from a composite film; wherein the composite film includes: a reinforcing film, a background-color layer formed on one surface of the reinforcing film to color the reinforcing film in a background color, and a transparent surface film laminated to the background-color layer; and an embossed pattern is formed on the transparent surface film.  
   
   
       2 . The card jacket according to  claim 1 , wherein the transparent surface film is a laminated film having a plurality of layers.  
   
   
       3 . The card jacket according to  claim 1 , wherein the background-color layer is a color film.  
   
   
       4 . The card jacket according to  claim 1 , wherein the background-color layer is a printed layer printed on the reinforcing film.  
   
   
       5 . The card jacket according to  claim 1 , wherein the background-color layer is a deposited metal film formed by deposition.  
   
   
       6 . The card jacket according to  claim 1 , wherein the transparent surface film is formed of a biaxially oriented polypropylene resin, and the reinforcing film is formed of a nonoriented polypropylene resin.  
   
   
       7 . A card jacket manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing a card jacket of a predetermined size capable of closely holding a card therein, and having three sealed sides and one open side, said card jacket manufacturing apparatus comprising: 
 a front film feed unit for feeding a long front film for forming a front wall of the card jacket along a front film feed passage;    a back film feed unit for feeding a long back film for forming a back wall of the card jacket so that the front and the back film are put together;    an embossing drum provided in its circumference with an embossing pattern and disposed near the front film feed passage; and    a jacket-forming unit disposed below the embossing drum with respect to a direction in which the front and the back film are fed, and capable of bonding together joining parts of the front and the back film, and of melt-cutting the front and the back film to provide the card jacket.    
   
   
       8 . The card jacket manufacturing apparatus according to  claim 7 , wherein the front film is a composite film including: a reinforcing film, a background-color layer formed on one surface of the reinforcing film to color the reinforcing film in a background color, and a transparent surface film laminated to the background-color layer; and the embossing drum embosses a pattern on the transparent surface film.  
   
   
       9 . The card jacket according to  claim 2 , wherein the background-color layer is a color film.  
   
   
       10 . The card jacket according to  claim 2 , wherein the background-color layer is a printed layer printed on the reinforcing film.  
   
   
       11 . The card jacket according to  claim 2 , wherein the background-color layer is a deposited metal film formed by deposition.