OPTICALLY VARIABLE PROTECTIVE THREADS AND STRIPS Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC B42D25/29 B42D25/355 D21H21/42 

FIELD: safety.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to protection of valuable documents and valuable commercial products from forgery and illegal reproduction and concerns optically variable protective threads and strips. Protective threads or strips contain a substrate and I) first optically variable layer providing the first special colour impression at different angles of vision, II) second optically variable layer providing the second special colour impression at different angles of vision, III) first colour permanent layer, colour of which corresponds to the colour impression from the first optically variable layer or the second optically variable layer at the first angle of vision, IV) second colour permanent layer, colour of which corresponds to the colour impression from the first optically variable layer or the second optically variable layer at the second angle of vision, and v) one or more material-free sections, where the first optically variable layer, second optically variable layer, the first colour permanent layer, second colour permanent layer and one or more material-free sections are visible together on one side of a protective thread or strip.

EFFECT: invention provides higher resistance against forgery or illegal reproduction of protected documents containing optically variable threads or strips.

25 cl, 25 dwg