CA2181996C - Card assembly - Google Patents
Card assemblyInfo
- Publication number
- CA2181996C CA2181996C CA002181996A CA2181996A CA2181996C CA 2181996 C CA2181996 C CA 2181996C CA 002181996 A CA002181996 A CA 002181996A CA 2181996 A CA2181996 A CA 2181996A CA 2181996 C CA2181996 C CA 2181996C
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- Prior art keywords
- card
- article
- assembly according
- switch
- message
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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Classifications
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
- A63F3/06—Lottos or bingo games; Systems, apparatus or devices for checking such games
- A63F3/065—Tickets or accessories for use therewith
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
- B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
- B42D15/00—Printed matter of special format or style not otherwise provided for
- B42D15/02—Postcards; Greeting, menu, business or like cards; Letter cards or letter-sheets
- B42D15/022—Postcards; Greeting, menu, business or like cards; Letter cards or letter-sheets combined with permanently fastened sound-producing or light-emitting means or carrying sound records
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
- A63F9/24—Electric games; Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for
- A63F2009/2448—Output devices
- A63F2009/247—Output devices audible, e.g. using a loudspeaker
- A63F2009/2476—Speech or voice synthesisers, e.g. using a speech chip
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- G—PHYSICS
- G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
- G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
- G09F25/00—Audible advertising
- G09F2025/005—Message recorded in a memory device
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- G—PHYSICS
- G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
- G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
- G09F25/00—Audible advertising
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- Multimedia (AREA)
- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Credit Cards Or The Like (AREA)
- Fittings On The Vehicle Exterior For Carrying Loads, And Devices For Holding Or Mounting Articles (AREA)
- Polishing Bodies And Polishing Tools (AREA)
- Devices For Checking Fares Or Tickets At Control Points (AREA)
- Inspection Of Paper Currency And Valuable Securities (AREA)
- Pinball Game Machines (AREA)
- Reverberation, Karaoke And Other Acoustics (AREA)
- Vehicle Step Arrangements And Article Storage (AREA)
- Lock And Its Accessories (AREA)
- Developing Agents For Electrophotography (AREA)
- Coupling Device And Connection With Printed Circuit (AREA)
Abstract
A greeting or other card plays an appropriate aural message and serves as a presentation vehicle for a gift or other article such as a lottery ticket. The card includes a device (10) for playing a tune or verbal message and has mounting slots (3a, 3b) for the article. When seated in the slots (3a, 3b), the article interrupts the electrical circuit of the device (10), preventing playback of the tune or message. On removal of the article a switch (11) of the device (10) closes to complete an electrical circuit which causes the aural greeting to sound.
Description
CARD ASSEMBLY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION:
The present invention relates to a card and, in particular, to a card for presentation of a gift or other item.
5 BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION:
Greeting cards which play a tune when opened are well known in the art and are popular with the public. Exemplary of such cards are birthday greeting cards which, when opened, play an appropriate tune such as "Happy Birthday" or "Congratulations". These cards are provided with a mini~ re battery powered printed circuit board (PCB) having a 10 memory chip with tone instructions, a piezo-electric buzzer and a switch. One side of the switch is connected to one battery terminal. The other side of the switch is integral with the PCB. When the card is closed, the switch is off. Opening the card causes the switch to make contact, thereby closing the circuit so that the tune is sounded.
15 DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART:
GB-A-2 137 560 discloses a musical greeting card having a fold therein which is provided with an electronic tune producing element. There is a switch on one side of the fold and a sliding electrode of the switch is provided which is connected from one side of the fold to the other side of the fold so as to breech two contacts of the switch when the 20 card is opened beyond a predetermined angle so that the musical element is activated.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
An object of the present invention is to provide a card which also serves as a vehicle for presenting a gift or other token.
~, -Accordingly, the present invention provides a card assembly comprising a card member and means associated with the card member for delivering an aural message, characterised in that the assembly further includes means associated with the card member for detachably mounting an article on the card member and switch means associated with the mounting means for controlling the message delivery means whereby, on detachment of the article from the card member, the switch means actuates the message delivery means to deliver the aural message. The message delivery means may comprise an electrical circuit including a power supply means, a printed circuit board for generating a signal representing the message, and a piezo-electric buzzer for converting the signal into aurally detectable tones.
In an embodiment of an assembly according to the invention, the switch means is associated with the mounting means so that the article, when mounted on the card member, retains the switch means in an open or closed position whereby detachment of the article from the card member respectively closes or opens an electrical circuit to control operation of the message delivery means. In a preferred embodiment, the switch means is retained in an open position by the article and, on detachment of the article, the switch means closes to actuate the message delivery means. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the card member includes a pair of leaves between which is located the message delivery means and the switch means, and one of the leaves has an aperture about the terminals of the switch means to enable a part of the article to be interposed between the terminals to illte,l ~l the circuit. The assembly may include a third leaf closable against the apertured leaf.
In the assembly, secondary control means are advantageously provided for controlling the switch means in the absence of the article, the secondary control means being movable relative to the card member to control the switch means.
Supplementary mounting means may be associated with the card member for detachably mounting a further article thereto.
The card may be a greeting card, in which case the article is preferably a gift item, for example a lottery scratch card, ticket, photograph, compact disc, bank note, cheque, or the like, and the aural message may be a tune appropriate to the occasion which the gift is intended to mark.
Alternatively, the article may be any item which is generally delivered to its recipient attached to a letter, card, or the like, for example a credit card, a bank card, or a personal identification card.
The card may be a flat card such as a postcard or may have two or more leaves 5 which fold together. The card itself, together with the musical or vocal message it contains, is ~plopliately designed and selected to mark a given occasion. The card may also be a vehicle for delivery of a commercial message and the terms "card" and "greeting card" should be understood accordingly. Additionally, the term "card" should be understood to include any suitable materials, including stiff and flexible materials whether 10 fabricated from paper, cardboard, plastics material, metal or otherwise.
For example, the card may be Christmas or birthday card and carry a tune complementary to that occasion. Other examples of occasions which can be marked with such cards are: St. Valentine's day, New Year's day (or other National holiday), wedding day, birth of a baby, anniversary, sporting occasion, "get well" wish, holiday greeting, and 15 the like.
As an alternative to a musical jingle, the card may deliver a verbal message, for example a Corporate message, verbal information, or greeting, and the like.
The invention will now be more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings which show, by way of example only, an embodiment of a card 20 according to the present invention.
~ BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS:
The novel features which are believed to be characteristic of the present invention, as to its structure, org~ni7~tion, use and method of operation, together with further 25 objectives and advantages thereof, will be better understood from the following drawings in which a presently preferred embodiment of the invention will now be illustrated by way of example. It is expressly understood, however, that the drawings are for the purpose of illustration and description only and are not intended as a definition of the limits of the invention. Embodiments of this invention will now be described by way of example in 30 association with the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a plan view of an opened out, two-leaved greeting card according to the present invention, and Figure 2 is a view similar to that of Figure 1, partially cut away.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS:
Referring to the Figures, a greeting card comprises two leaves la and lb which fold together along the fold line 2. The leaf lb has a pair of diagonal slots 3a, 3b for receiving a gift article, such as a lottery ticket, or a concert ticket, as shown by the dashed line.
Further gifts may be accommodated by the slots 4a, 4b, or 5a, 5b (closed and opened 10 dotted lines, respectively). A window or aperture 6 in the leaf lb gives access to the switch 11 of a message delivery device 10. Any desired number of slot pairs may be provided.
The device 10, which plays a tune, comprises a piezo-electric buzzer 12 connected to a printed circuit board (PCB) 13, a power supply means such as a battery 14 and a 15 switch 11, which has a connecting stud 1 la. One battery t~rmin~l is provided as a pad on the PCB 13, the other being connected to the switch 11. The switch 11 comprises resiliently deformable conductive material which is biased into contact with the PCB to close the circuit. The gift item is placed in the slots 3a, 3b and between the PCB 13 and switch 11, thereby m~ ing the circuit open. On removal of the gift, the stud lla of 20 the switch 11 connects with the PCB 13 to close the circuit, causing the buzzer 12 to sound the tones comprising the tune.
One the gift item has been removed from the card, the sounding of the tune may be shut off by means of the arm 15, which is fixed at one end to the leaf la in such a manner that the arm 15 is capable of limited movement along its longitudinal axis relative to the 25 leaf lb on folding of the leaf la relative to leaf lb. At its free end, the arm 15 has an aperture 17. When the card is closed, leaves la and lb lie superimposed on and facing one another, with the arm 15 interposed between PCB 13 and the switch 11 to keep the switch open. On opening the card, the arm 15 moves along its longitudinal axis, bringing the aperture 17 into register with the stud 1 la of the switch 11, thereby allowing the circuit to close for playing the tune. Closure of the card shuts off the sound by moving the aperture 17 out of register with the stud lla and re-interposing the arm 15 to shut the switch.
For practical purposes, the leaf lb is preferably provided as a two layered leaf, with the device 10 sandwiched between the layers and with the window 6 provided only in one of the layers, giving access to the switch for placement of the gift article.
In use, the card is presented to a recipient closed, with the gift (for example7 a gift ticket) inserted in the slots 3a, 3b and interposed between the switch 11 and PCB 13. On 10 opening of the card, the arm 15 moves so that the aperture 17 comes into register with the switch 11. However, as the gift ticket is holding the switch open, the tune does not play.
Only when the recipient removes the gift ticket from the slots 3a, 3b does the congratulatory or other tune sound. Thereafter, the tune may be shut off in the normal way by closing the card. On subsequent opening of the card after removal of the gift ticket, the 15 tune will play as the aperture 17 moves into register to allow the circuit to close.
Any suitable power supply means, for example, a solar cell, may be used in placeof a battery in the device.
While the invention has been particularly described with reference to a two-leaved card, it will be appreciated that, with app~opliate modifications, it can equally be applied 20 to a single leaf card such as a postcard or, indeed, to multi-leaved cards. Equally, it will be appreciated that the shut off arm 15 may be arranged so as to be directly m~n~l~lly operable.
The card, which need not be a greeting card, may also optionally be provided with a device 10 associated with each pair of mounting slots, the devices playing the same or 25 a different message and each having independent secondary shut off arms whereby removal of each gift item causes a message to be played. The message played will usually be of a musical nature, but may equally comprise a verbal message. Additionally, the article held on the card need not be a gift item, but may equally be some other article to be delivered to a recipient, for example, a credit card.
'_ It will, of course, be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific details described herein, which are given by way of example only, and that various modifications and alterations are possible within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION:
The present invention relates to a card and, in particular, to a card for presentation of a gift or other item.
5 BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION:
Greeting cards which play a tune when opened are well known in the art and are popular with the public. Exemplary of such cards are birthday greeting cards which, when opened, play an appropriate tune such as "Happy Birthday" or "Congratulations". These cards are provided with a mini~ re battery powered printed circuit board (PCB) having a 10 memory chip with tone instructions, a piezo-electric buzzer and a switch. One side of the switch is connected to one battery terminal. The other side of the switch is integral with the PCB. When the card is closed, the switch is off. Opening the card causes the switch to make contact, thereby closing the circuit so that the tune is sounded.
15 DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART:
GB-A-2 137 560 discloses a musical greeting card having a fold therein which is provided with an electronic tune producing element. There is a switch on one side of the fold and a sliding electrode of the switch is provided which is connected from one side of the fold to the other side of the fold so as to breech two contacts of the switch when the 20 card is opened beyond a predetermined angle so that the musical element is activated.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
An object of the present invention is to provide a card which also serves as a vehicle for presenting a gift or other token.
~, -Accordingly, the present invention provides a card assembly comprising a card member and means associated with the card member for delivering an aural message, characterised in that the assembly further includes means associated with the card member for detachably mounting an article on the card member and switch means associated with the mounting means for controlling the message delivery means whereby, on detachment of the article from the card member, the switch means actuates the message delivery means to deliver the aural message. The message delivery means may comprise an electrical circuit including a power supply means, a printed circuit board for generating a signal representing the message, and a piezo-electric buzzer for converting the signal into aurally detectable tones.
In an embodiment of an assembly according to the invention, the switch means is associated with the mounting means so that the article, when mounted on the card member, retains the switch means in an open or closed position whereby detachment of the article from the card member respectively closes or opens an electrical circuit to control operation of the message delivery means. In a preferred embodiment, the switch means is retained in an open position by the article and, on detachment of the article, the switch means closes to actuate the message delivery means. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the card member includes a pair of leaves between which is located the message delivery means and the switch means, and one of the leaves has an aperture about the terminals of the switch means to enable a part of the article to be interposed between the terminals to illte,l ~l the circuit. The assembly may include a third leaf closable against the apertured leaf.
In the assembly, secondary control means are advantageously provided for controlling the switch means in the absence of the article, the secondary control means being movable relative to the card member to control the switch means.
Supplementary mounting means may be associated with the card member for detachably mounting a further article thereto.
The card may be a greeting card, in which case the article is preferably a gift item, for example a lottery scratch card, ticket, photograph, compact disc, bank note, cheque, or the like, and the aural message may be a tune appropriate to the occasion which the gift is intended to mark.
Alternatively, the article may be any item which is generally delivered to its recipient attached to a letter, card, or the like, for example a credit card, a bank card, or a personal identification card.
The card may be a flat card such as a postcard or may have two or more leaves 5 which fold together. The card itself, together with the musical or vocal message it contains, is ~plopliately designed and selected to mark a given occasion. The card may also be a vehicle for delivery of a commercial message and the terms "card" and "greeting card" should be understood accordingly. Additionally, the term "card" should be understood to include any suitable materials, including stiff and flexible materials whether 10 fabricated from paper, cardboard, plastics material, metal or otherwise.
For example, the card may be Christmas or birthday card and carry a tune complementary to that occasion. Other examples of occasions which can be marked with such cards are: St. Valentine's day, New Year's day (or other National holiday), wedding day, birth of a baby, anniversary, sporting occasion, "get well" wish, holiday greeting, and 15 the like.
As an alternative to a musical jingle, the card may deliver a verbal message, for example a Corporate message, verbal information, or greeting, and the like.
The invention will now be more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings which show, by way of example only, an embodiment of a card 20 according to the present invention.
~ BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS:
The novel features which are believed to be characteristic of the present invention, as to its structure, org~ni7~tion, use and method of operation, together with further 25 objectives and advantages thereof, will be better understood from the following drawings in which a presently preferred embodiment of the invention will now be illustrated by way of example. It is expressly understood, however, that the drawings are for the purpose of illustration and description only and are not intended as a definition of the limits of the invention. Embodiments of this invention will now be described by way of example in 30 association with the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a plan view of an opened out, two-leaved greeting card according to the present invention, and Figure 2 is a view similar to that of Figure 1, partially cut away.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS:
Referring to the Figures, a greeting card comprises two leaves la and lb which fold together along the fold line 2. The leaf lb has a pair of diagonal slots 3a, 3b for receiving a gift article, such as a lottery ticket, or a concert ticket, as shown by the dashed line.
Further gifts may be accommodated by the slots 4a, 4b, or 5a, 5b (closed and opened 10 dotted lines, respectively). A window or aperture 6 in the leaf lb gives access to the switch 11 of a message delivery device 10. Any desired number of slot pairs may be provided.
The device 10, which plays a tune, comprises a piezo-electric buzzer 12 connected to a printed circuit board (PCB) 13, a power supply means such as a battery 14 and a 15 switch 11, which has a connecting stud 1 la. One battery t~rmin~l is provided as a pad on the PCB 13, the other being connected to the switch 11. The switch 11 comprises resiliently deformable conductive material which is biased into contact with the PCB to close the circuit. The gift item is placed in the slots 3a, 3b and between the PCB 13 and switch 11, thereby m~ ing the circuit open. On removal of the gift, the stud lla of 20 the switch 11 connects with the PCB 13 to close the circuit, causing the buzzer 12 to sound the tones comprising the tune.
One the gift item has been removed from the card, the sounding of the tune may be shut off by means of the arm 15, which is fixed at one end to the leaf la in such a manner that the arm 15 is capable of limited movement along its longitudinal axis relative to the 25 leaf lb on folding of the leaf la relative to leaf lb. At its free end, the arm 15 has an aperture 17. When the card is closed, leaves la and lb lie superimposed on and facing one another, with the arm 15 interposed between PCB 13 and the switch 11 to keep the switch open. On opening the card, the arm 15 moves along its longitudinal axis, bringing the aperture 17 into register with the stud 1 la of the switch 11, thereby allowing the circuit to close for playing the tune. Closure of the card shuts off the sound by moving the aperture 17 out of register with the stud lla and re-interposing the arm 15 to shut the switch.
For practical purposes, the leaf lb is preferably provided as a two layered leaf, with the device 10 sandwiched between the layers and with the window 6 provided only in one of the layers, giving access to the switch for placement of the gift article.
In use, the card is presented to a recipient closed, with the gift (for example7 a gift ticket) inserted in the slots 3a, 3b and interposed between the switch 11 and PCB 13. On 10 opening of the card, the arm 15 moves so that the aperture 17 comes into register with the switch 11. However, as the gift ticket is holding the switch open, the tune does not play.
Only when the recipient removes the gift ticket from the slots 3a, 3b does the congratulatory or other tune sound. Thereafter, the tune may be shut off in the normal way by closing the card. On subsequent opening of the card after removal of the gift ticket, the 15 tune will play as the aperture 17 moves into register to allow the circuit to close.
Any suitable power supply means, for example, a solar cell, may be used in placeof a battery in the device.
While the invention has been particularly described with reference to a two-leaved card, it will be appreciated that, with app~opliate modifications, it can equally be applied 20 to a single leaf card such as a postcard or, indeed, to multi-leaved cards. Equally, it will be appreciated that the shut off arm 15 may be arranged so as to be directly m~n~l~lly operable.
The card, which need not be a greeting card, may also optionally be provided with a device 10 associated with each pair of mounting slots, the devices playing the same or 25 a different message and each having independent secondary shut off arms whereby removal of each gift item causes a message to be played. The message played will usually be of a musical nature, but may equally comprise a verbal message. Additionally, the article held on the card need not be a gift item, but may equally be some other article to be delivered to a recipient, for example, a credit card.
'_ It will, of course, be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific details described herein, which are given by way of example only, and that various modifications and alterations are possible within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
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Claims (10)
1. A card assembly comprising a card member and means associated with the card member for delivering an aural message, characterised in that the assembly further includes means associated with the card member for detachable mounting of an article on the card member and switch means associated with the mounting means for controlling the message delivery means whereby, on detachment of the article from the card member, the switch means actuates the message delivery means to deliver the aural message.
2. A card assembly according to claim 1, in which the message delivery means comprises an electrical circuit including a power supply means, a printed circuit board for generating a signal representing the message, and a piezo-electric buzzer for converting the signal into aurally detectable tones.
3. A card assembly according to claim 1 or claim 2, in which the article, when mounted on the card member, retains the switch means in an open or closed position whereby detachment of the article from the card member respectively closes or opens an electrical circuit to control operation of the message delivery means
4. A card assembly according to claim 3, in which the switch means is retained in an open position by the article and, on detachment of the article, the switch means closes to actuate the message delivery means.
5. A card assembly according to claim 4, in which the card member includes a pair of leaves between which is located the message delivery means and the switch means, and in which one of the leaves has an aperture about the terminals of the switch means to enable a part of the article to be interposed between the terminals to interrupt the circuit.
6. A card assembly according to claim 5, including a third leaf closable against the apertured leaf.
7. A card assembly according to claim 1, 2, or 3, including secondary control means for controlling the switch means in the absence of the article.
8. A card assembly according to claim 1, 2, or 3, including secondary control means for controlling the switch means in the absence of the article, and in which the secondary control means is movable relative to the card member to control the switch means.
9. A card assembly according to claim 1, 2, or 3, including supplementary mounting means associated with the card member for detachably mounting a further article thereto.
10. A card assembly according to claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein said card member is a greeting card.
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| IES940068 | 1994-01-25 | ||
| PCT/IE1994/000023 WO1995019893A1 (en) | 1994-01-25 | 1994-05-03 | A card assembly |
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| CA2181996A1 CA2181996A1 (en) | 1995-07-27 |
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