American Greetings Corporation

Katalina Speck

David Mayer

Allison Marsh

Gary Nelson

Sharon Bogdanski

Kimberly Bikowski

April Nemeth

John Talbot

Jerry Guo

Mary McClain

David Sapp

Anthony Begin

Cathy Tasse

Eliza DeVogel

Josef A Mandelbaum

Rajiv Jain

Catherine Gruntman

Donald Zhang

Charles Robert Kelly

Dave Sapp

Sheila Coughlin

Mindy Leeders

Lynne Shlonsky

Tiger Qiao

Terry Hughes

Anastasia Taylor

Charlotte Mao

Dawn Pyne

Elizabeth Draeger

Jill Jankowski

Brian Altman

Rob Matousek

Erik Flesher

Emily Gross

Eliza DeVogal

Melinda Leeders

Phonograph greeting card

The present disclosure and related inventions describe a greeting card with audio capabilities and party blower. The greeting card can include a squeeze trigger which initiates audio playback and the unfurling of the party blower. Release of the squeeze trigger causes the retraction of the party blower.

Greeting card with squeeze trigger activation

Greeting card with window

Electronic greeting cards include a greeting card with two or more interconnected panels in combination with a digital multimedia player device which includes an electronic display and an audio output, and circuitry which is operative to receive, store and play digital multimedia files and content. The various greeting card structures cover and encapsulate or otherwise house and adorn the digital multimedia player. Digital files are loaded on to the digital multimedia player by a connection to a network, or directly from a data storage device such as an SD card or USB connection or compact flash which interfaces with a port in the digital multimedia player. Pre-recorded digital multimedia greeting card content is either pre-loaded on a portable data storage device, or selected for purchase and downloaded or transferred for replay by the digital multimedia player of the electronic greeting card.

Electronic greeting cards

Three-dimensional lightweight foam greeting cards are described herein having a foam body with a perimeter wall that extends between two spaced apart parallel pieces of planar sheet material such as heavy gauge paper, cardboard, or other such material. The greeting cards have a partially hollowed foam body or one or more cavities in the foam body concealed in the front and back by the planar sheet material which may be pre-cut in the shape of the foam body are decorated consistent with the design of the foam body. The cavities in the foam body may contain various electronic components that enable the greeting card to produce sound, record and playback a personalized message, trigger light activation, trigger the movement of moveable parts, display digital video, photographs or slideshows, or a combination thereof. The greeting cards may include various switch mechanisms that may be located and accessed through various locations on the foam greeting card body.

Three dimensional foam greeting cards

Greeting card

Greeting cards and novelties with electronic circuits having switch mechanisms operable by manipulation of a moveable component. Manipulation of the moveable component causes activation of the electronic circuit.

Electronic greeting cards and novelties with moveable elements and manual electronic circuit activation

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Westlake, OH, United States of America

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