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US 5,261,703 AGranted
Greeting card with compatible puzzle message
AssigneeStry-Lenkoff Company
InventorRoger J. Lenkoff
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Abstract
A greeting card with a compatible puzzle message including a visible opening first message, a visible outline to be completed as a second visible message compatible with the first message and means associated with the card to be used by the card recipient to complete the second compatible message within the visible outline.
Claims11
A greeting card including a first area having a visible introductory first message from a sender to a card recipient;
- a second area having a visible outline, said outline defining boundaries for an uncompleted message to be completed by said card recipient as a second visible message compatible with said first message;
- and, means to complete said uncompleted message associated with said card in a third area to be used by said recipient to complete said second uncompleted message within said visible outline in said second area.
A greeting card comprising:
- a folded booklet having front and back plates to include front and back faces and two inside faces to provide at least four plate areas including a first area on said front face of said front plate having a visible introductory first message to a card recipient printed thereon;
- a second area on said right-hand inside face of said back plate having a visible outline printed thereon in the form of a rectangular grid subdivided into rectangular squares, each with an uncompleted message therein in the form of a distinct visible indicia numeral thereon to receive a corresponding indicia marked square segment from a third area of said greeting card as a portion of picture to be completed within said visible outline as a second visible message compatible with said visible introductory first message printed on said front face of said front plate of said card;
- a third area on said left-hand inside face of said front plate, said third area having a scrambled picture package hingedly fastened thereto to include a rectangular scrambled picture therein segmented and sized to correspond with said visible grid and subdivided into scrambled square segments, each corresponding with a square segment of said visible grid in said second area, each segment having a distinct visible numeral thereon to correspond with a distinct numeral printed on a segment of said subdivided grid in said second area with the visual art of each picture segment extending in conceptual form beyond its peripheral edge into a portion of a space between jumbled segments a distance to accommodate for manufacturing severing tolerance and having an adhesive on the back portion thereof to insure clear, substantially uninterrupted and correct assemblage in said visibly marked grid in said second area to complete said message in said second area with said hinged package leaving a fourth area on said left-hand inside face to accommodate a written note from a sender to said card recipient;
- and, a visible fully completed second compatible image included with said scrambled picture package for the benefit of a sender and so marked so that the sender can be informed of the second compatible visible image to be completed by said card recipient.
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