Patents Assigned to American Greetings Corp.
  • Patent number: 8726548
    Abstract: An integral greeting card/game is disclosed wherein a multi-panel greeting card also serves as a game board and is combined with a game piece and launch mechanism to create a novel, interactive greeting card. The multi-panel greeting card contains a sound module therein and a magnetic trigger is contained and concealed below one or more of the multiple greeting card panels. The game piece contains a magnet therein so that when the game piece comes into contact with the area of the greeting card above or proximate to the magnetic trigger, playback of an audio file is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: American Greetings Corp.
    Inventors: Seth Larson, Tony Begin, David Mayer, John Talbot, Sharon Bogdanski, Mike Gali
  • Patent number: 8136677
    Abstract: An adjustable card pocket having a back panel for attachment to a shelf or a mating panel and two half card pockets that are operatively attached to the back panel for holding and displaying greeting cards of varying width dimensions. The back panel contains four pocket engagement slots to engage the two pocket engagement tabs on each half card pocket. The back panel further contains a six adjustment slots designed to receive the one adjustment tab located on each of the half card pockets. The adjustment tabs can be inserted into one of three adjustment slots located on each side of the back panel allowing the pocket to contain cards of different width dimensions. The width of the pocket can be adjusted by applying a slightly outward force to each half card pocket to disengage the adjustment tabs from the adjustment slots and then slidably moving the half card pockets in either an inward or outward direction and re-engaging the adjustment tabs with another set of adjustment slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: American Greetings Corp.
    Inventors: Emory N. Brozak, Anthony J. Santarelli
  • Patent number: 8127920
    Abstract: Greeting card package constructs and containers for the retail packaging and sale of sets of greeting cards with envelopes, including a frame box structure configured to hold a plurality or set of greeting cards and having openings in front and back panels to make at least two or more pages of a greeting card in the package visible, and substantially reducing total material requirements for the package. The package structure includes four sides and four back flanges to hold the greeting cards in place. One embodiment of the disclosure is capable of holding one set of identical greeting cards. Another embodiment is capable of holding two side-by-side sets of separate identical greeting cards. The package is wrapped in cellophane to preserve both the front and inside views of the greeting card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: American Greetings Corp.
    Inventor: Joel T. Hageman
  • Patent number: 7380679
    Abstract: Connectable containers provide a vessel with a cavity formed by walls with interconnecting structures whereby multiple containers can be connected in series or chains in different arrangements. A cap to each container with an operable cover enables holding and dispensing of items or product of size appropriate to the container cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: American Greetings Corp.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Conrad, William Edwin Kerner
  • Patent number: 6270698
    Abstract: Stress-relieved molded acrylic opthalmic lenses, and injection-coining mold processes for molding stress-relieved plus and minus to high-minus diopter ophthalmic lenses of optically superior acrylic resin, able to pass standardized impact drop tests for use in eyeglass lenses, are described. The injection-coining processes use two-plate and three-plate mold assemblies. The cavity of a two plate runnerless mold is partially filled under partial tonnage, and the movable half of the mold controlled to coin and densify the acrylic resin under secondary or full tonnage, when a velocity-pressure changeover point is reached. In a process which employs a three-plate mold assembly, the lens mold cavities are partially filled under less than total clamp tonnage, with a cavity plate held by hydraulic pressure against movable half of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: American Greetings Corp.
    Inventor: Darrell Pope
  • Patent number: D442796
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: American Greetings Corp.
    Inventor: Emory N. Brozak, Jr.
  • Patent number: D454594
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: American Greetings Corp.
    Inventor: Emory N. Brozak, Jr.
  • Patent number: D536502
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: American Greetings Corp.
    Inventors: Christopher P. Weigand, Gary Walker, Peter Rakytiak
  • Patent number: D536503
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: American Greetings Corp.
    Inventors: Christopher P. Weigand, Gary Walker, Peter Rakytiak
  • Patent number: D607341
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: American Greetings Corp.
    Inventors: David Blinderman, Aimee King
  • Patent number: D649587
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: American Greetings Corp.
    Inventors: April Nemeth, Allison Marsh, Melissa Flesher, Cindi Pochatek