Motorized foam greeting card

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8973291-B2
Application number	US-201414301166-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 10, 2014
Priority date	Jan 11, 2011
Publication date	Mar 10, 2015
Grant date	Mar 10, 2015

Abstract

A greeting card which contains a foam body covered by a front and rear surface material and one or more cavities contained therein for accommodating components of a sound and motor module. The greeting card contains a mobile object, which in a preferred embodiment includes a bundle of individual fiber strands. The bundle of fiber strands are attached to the motor module such that activation of the motor module cause the bundle of fiber strands to separate and spin or twirl. The bundle of fibers strands are attached to the motor through an opening in an upper perimeter surface of the foam body. The bundle of fibers together with the printed front and back surface material combine to resemble a character having a tuft of hair which spins upon activation of the motor module. The greeting card also contains a sound module which plays back audio upon activation.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A greeting card comprising:
a foam body having one or more cavities therein;
a sound module operative to store and playback at least one audio file;
a motor module operative to cause movement to a mobile object;
a switch operative to control activation of the sound and motor modules;
the mobile object comprising a bundle of fiber strands which twirl in a circular motion when the motor module is activated;
wherein front and rear surface materi…

Assignees

• American Greetings Corp

Inventors

• Mayer David
• Miller Carol
• Sapp Dave
• Shlonsky Lynne

Classifications

• B42D15/027

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B42D15/022 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B42D15/042

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• G09F1/08

  Physics · mapped topic