Hinged Greeting Cards and Gift Card Holders
AssigneeAmerican Greetings Corporation
InventorsJason Dove, Sean Higgins
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Abstract
Interactive greeting card and gift card holders with a hinged mechanism which provide fun user interaction and triggers audio playback. Each greeting card and gift card holder includes portion thereof which hinges or pivots about an axis. When the greeting card or gift card holder is hinged, or pivoted about the hinge, one or more special effects are triggered. Special effects may include audio, emergence or ejection of a gift card holder (w/gift card) or gift card, the appearance of a thought or word bubble, or any other special effect.
Claims16
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A greeting card comprising:
- a greeting card body comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper and lower portions being connected at a pivot point;
- a sound module contained within the greeting card body which is operative to store and playback at least one audio clip;
- wherein partially pivoting the upper portion of the greeting card body away from or towards the lower portion of the greeting card body triggers the sound module to play the at least one audio clip.
A greeting card comprising:
- a greeting card body having a first portion and a second portion;
- a sound module contained within the greeting card body, the sound module operative to store and playback at least one audio file;
- wherein moving the first portion of the greeting card with respect to the second portion causes the sound module to playback the at least one audio file.
A greeting card comprising:
- a greeting card body having a first portion and a second portion, the first and second portions of the greeting card body being attached at a pivot point;
- a sound module contained within the greeting card body, the sound module operative to store and playback at least one audio clip;
- wherein moving the first portion of the greeting card body about the pivot point, causes the sound module to play the at least one audio clip through a speaker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.