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US 10,093,122 B2Granted
Balloon greeting
OwnerIgnazio Giammarresi, Pietro Domenichiello +1inventors
InventorsIgnazio Giammarresi, Pietro Domenichiello, Carmine Francesco Dodaro
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Abstract
An in store sales product having a greeting card with an uninflated balloon attached. and after purchase the cashier can then inflate the balloon, place the greeting card and balloon in a shopping bag and hand it to the customer and the balloon remains temporarily secured down on the greeting card, and will be released later to float upwards on a tether.
Claims14
A gift product having a greeting card and a balloon attached together, and comprising:
- an uninflated balloon adapted to be inflated for display;
- a tether element on said greeting card defining a first end and a second end and connected at said first end of said tether element to the greeting card, and secured at said second end of said tether element to a said balloon, and releasable securing means temporarily securing said balloon and said second tether end to said greeting card, said releasable securing means being releasable to release the balloon when inflated and allow said balloon to extend said second end of said tether element and to rise upwardly above said greeting card, while said tether first end remains anchored to the card;
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- wherein said tether element is part of said greeting card, and is formed of the same material as said greeting card.
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A gift product having a greeting card and a balloon attached together, and comprising:
- an uninflated balloon adapted to be inflated for display;
- and wherein said greeting card comprises a plurality of panels, including a front greeting panel, a rear tether panel, and two inner panels adapted to be folded inside said front greeting panel and rear tether panel;
- a tether element on said rear tether panel of said greeting card said tether element defining a first tether element end and a second tether element end;
- a tether extension tail on said tether extending from said rear tether panel into a portion of said front greeting panel;
- wherein said tether extension tail forms said first tether element end and is attached to said front face of said greeting card;
- a balloon inflation tube on said balloon;
- a first adhesive securing said balloon inflation tube to a first face of said second tether element end of said tether element;
- and,
- releasable securing means temporarily holding a second face of said second tether element end of said tether element to said greeting card, said releasable securing means being releasable to permit the balloon when inflated and said tether element to extend upwardly above said greeting card.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.