Greeting card with pop-out and audio

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9245461-B1
Application number	US-201514832012-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Aug 21, 2015
Priority date	Aug 26, 2014
Publication date	Jan 26, 2016
Grant date	Jan 26, 2016

Abstract

An interactive greeting card which operates as a faux cuckoo clock. The greeting card contains an opening thereon beneath which is a pop-out character. One or more moveable flaps cover the opening and conceal the pop-out character. A pull tab mechanism is used to open one or more moveable flaps and set forth the pop-out character. The pull tab mechanism may also initiate playback of one or more pre-recorded audio files stored on a memory device within the greeting card.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A greeting card comprising:
a multi-panel greeting card body;
at least one flap contained on one panel of the multi-panel greeting card body;
a pop-out structure located beneath the at least one flap which is moveable between a first position wherein it is contained within the greeting card body and concealed behind the at least one flap, and a second position wherein it is contained outside of the greeting card body;
a pull tab mechanism which is moveable between a first position wherein a small portion of the pull-tab mechanism is contained outside of the greeting card, and a second position wherein a larger portion of the pull tab mechanism is contained outside of the greeting card;
wherein the moving the pull tab mechanism from the first position to the second position causes the pop-out structure to move between the first position and the second position; and
wherein moving the pull tab mechanism from the second position back to the first position moves the pop-out structure from the second position back to the first position.

2. The greeting card of claim 1 , wherein there pop-out structure contains a small die cut character attached thereto.

3. The greeting card of claim 1 further including a sound module which is operative to store and playback at least one audio file.

4. The greeting card of claim 3 , wherein moving the pull tab mechanism from the first position to the second position also causes activation of the sound module and playback of the at least one audio file.

5. The greeting card of claim 1 , wherein the at least one flap is located on the front panel of the greeting card body.

6. A greeting card comprising:
a multi-panel greeting card body, a front cover of the multi-panel greeting card body having an opening thereon covered by two flaps;
a pop-out structure contained within the multi-panel greeting card body, the pop-out structure operative to move between a first position wherein it is inside the multi-panel greeting card body and concealed by the two flaps and a second position wherein it is outside of the greeting card body;
a pull tab mechanism which controls movement of the two flaps and the pop-out structure;
wherein pulling on the pull tab mechanism causes the two flaps to open thereby revealing the pop-out structure and also causes the pop-out structure to move between the first and second positions; and
wherein pushing the pull tab mechanism back to its original position causes the pop-out structure to move from the second position back to the first position and also causes the flaps to close.

7. The greeting card of claim 6 , wherein the two flaps open in opposing directions.

8. The greeting card of claim 6 further comprising a sound module operative to store and playback at least one audio file upon pulling on the pull tab mechanism.

9. The greeting card of claim 6 , wherein the pull tab mechanism is partially contained within the multi-panel greeting card body.

10. The greeting card of claim 6 , wherein the pull tab mechanism is partially contained outside of the multi-panel greeting card body.

11. The greeting card of claim 6 , wherein the pop-out structure comprises a ledge with a small die cut character attached to said ledge.

12. The greeting card of claim 6 , wherein the pull tab mechanism is accessible from a top edge of the greeting card.

13. A greeting card comprising:
a greeting card body having an opening on a front surface thereof;
at least one flap which covers the opening on the front surface of the greeting card body;
a pop-out structure contained within the greeting card body beneath the opening on the front surface thereof;
a movement mechanism which causes the pop-out structure to force open the at least one flap on the front surface of the greeting card body and propelling the pop-out structure outside of the greeting card body;
wherein the movement mechanism is also operative to move the pop-out structure from outside of the greeting card to back inside the greeting card.

14. The greeting card of claim 13 further comprising a sound module operative to store and playback at least one audio file.

15. The greeting card of claim 14 , wherein the sound module is activated upon the pop-up structure moving outside of the greeting card body.

16. The greeting card of claim 13 , wherein two flaps cover the opening on the front surface of the greeting card body.

17. The greeting card of claim 16 , wherein the two flaps open in opposing directions.

Assignees

• American Greetings Corp

Inventors

• Shlonsky Lynne

Classifications

• B42D15/022 Primary

  combined with permanently fastened sound-producing or light-emitting means or carrying sound records · CPC title

• G09F1/06 Primary

  to be erected in three dimensions [3D] (G09F1/08 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G09F2001/085

  actuated by a sliding tongue · CPC title

• G09F1/08

  wholly or partly imitating the form of an object, e.g. of the article to be advertised · CPC title

• B42D15/045 Primary

  Multi-part cards or sheets, i.e. combined with detachably mounted articles · CPC title