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US 8,037,545 B2Granted
Article and method including a temporary decoration
AssigneeBranders.com, Inc.
InventorGerald McLaughlin
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Abstract
Articles and methods include temporary decorations. Embodiments include temporary decorations applied to promotional articles. Embodiments include a method comprising creating a promotional article including applying a dissolvable decoration to a base item to create the promotional article, the dissolvable decoration being applied in such a manner so as to be removable from the base item by dissolving the dissolvable decoration using a solvent without substantially altering the original physical condition of the base item.
Claims16
An article comprising:
- a base item comprising a promotional article for distributing to promote products, services, activities, or events and intended to be worn by a person, wherein the base item comprises a permanent decoration having a first image of a logo, wherein the logo conveys first information;
- a removable decorative item having a second image comprising a replica of the logo, wherein the replica conveys second information;
- a material coupling the decorative item to the base item, wherein the material is dissolvable so that the decorative item may be separated from the base item without substantially altering the physical condition of the base item and without substantially altering an original physical condition of the decorative item,
- wherein the first image of the logo is revealed upon removal of the decorative item from the base item.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.