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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2020
Hallmark Cards, Incorporated, Kansas City, MO (US);
Douglas M. Bowen, Russellville, AR (US);
Robert R. Pavlu, Jr., Overland Park, KS (US);
Thomas A. Wallen, Merriam, KS (US);
Hallmark Cards, Incorporated, Kansas City, MO (US);
Abstract
A greeting card assembly with a card body panel, a cam lift mechanism, and at least one decorative element fixed to tab portions of the cam lift mechanism extending through cam slots in the card body panel. The cam lift mechanism is actuatable by pivoting subpanels of the card body panel away from each other. Pivoting of one of the subpanels causes lateral movement of a cam lever, which then pulls an extended arm portion of a rotating portion of the cam lift mechanism, causing the rotating portion to rotate about a primary axle. The cam slots guide the decorative elements radially outward or radially inward toward the primary axle upon rotation of the cam lift mechanism, causing the decorative elements to pop up or extend outward from the card body panel.