American Greetings Corporation

Dave Sapp

David Mayer

Lynne Shlonsky

Seth L Larson

Tiger Qiao

Allison Marsh

Jerry Guo

John Talbot

Sharon Bogdanski

Charlotte Mao

Gary Nelson

Charles Robert Kelly

Eva Jin

Johnathan Talbot

Anthony Begin

Katalina Speck

Anastasia Taylor

April Nemeth

Sheila Coughlin

Bin Chen

Carol Miller

Terry Hughes

Sean Higgins

Cathy Tasse

Eliza DeVogel

Nicole Forrester

Johnny Yanok

Phonograph greeting card

A greeting card having a gift card holder attached thereto with motor module which is operative to cause movement to the gift card holder. The greeting card may additionally contain a mobile object attached to the gift card holder which moves out of synch with the gift card holder. The gift card holder may contain a first portion and a second portion which separate to reveal a gift card therein.

Greeting card with motorized gift card holder

The present invention is directed to various embodiments of a greeting card having at least one motor attached to a mechanism which causes movement to a mobile object and one or more attachments suspended from the mobile object. The mobile object may be a circular disc, a string or a swing structure. Each mobile object contains one or more attachments either attached directly thereto or suspended therefrom via a string or line. The motor may effect various movements in the mobile object such as circular motion, back-and-forth motion or bouncing or vibrating motion.

Greeting cards with suspended motion

A greeting card which includes a greeting card body and a flying disc removably attached thereto. A sound module and motion sensor are contained within the flying disc. The sound module contains one or more audio clips contained thereon and is operative to replay the one or more audio clips through a speaker. The motion sensor triggers the audio playback upon the flying disc being tossed or thrown through the air by a user.

Greeting card with removable disc

Paddle ball greeting card

Greeting card with tie

Greeting card

Novelty gift plaque

A greeting card which contains a foam body covered by a front and rear surface material and one or more cavities contained therein for accommodating components of a sound and motor module. The greeting card contains a mobile object, which in a preferred embodiment includes a bundle of individual fiber strands. The bundle of fiber strands are attached to the motor module such that activation of the motor module cause the bundle of fiber strands to separate and spin or twirl. The bundle of fibers strands are attached to the motor through an opening in an upper perimeter surface of the foam body. The bundle of fibers together with the printed front and back surface material combine to resemble a character having a tuft of hair which spins upon activation of the motor module. The greeting card also contains a sound module which plays back audio upon activation.

Motorized foam greeting card

A flip book greeting card having an outside cover containing text and artwork and an inside panel containing a flip book. The flip book is made up of one piece of material that is folded accordion-style to create several smaller folds, each fold containing a series of still frame pictures or drawings, each successive fold containing the same picture or drawing with incremental movements. The flip book is connected to the greeting card in such away that when a user pulls the free edge of the flip book, the flip book is set in motion, creating the illusion of a picture in motion. The user may then push the free edge back to its original location, while the flip book is set in reverse motion, creating the illusion of rewinding the movement of the picture. The picture or drawing used in the flip book may be coordinated with the occasion, theme and/or d&#xe9;cor of the greeting card.

Flip book greeting cards

Three dimensional greeting card

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Avon Lake, OH, United States of America

Dave Sapp