METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ATTACHING ARTICLE TO A CONTAINER

• US 20090145081A1
• Filed: 11/25/2008
• Published: 06/11/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Christi A. Burton, Regina Samuel
• Original Assignee: Christi A. Burton, Regina Samuel
• Inventors: Samuel, Regina, Burton, Christi A.
• Application Number:
  US12/323,100
• Publication Number:
  US 20090145081A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 53/131.200
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/205 Means for the attachment of labels, cards, coupons or the like; cards or coupons for the other types of rigid or semi-rigid containers B65D25/36 takes precedence

Abstract

The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for attaching an article, preferably comprising communication media, to a container. The container may be, inter alia, any form of container or receptacle. For example and without limitation, the container may be a gift bag or gift box. The container may comprise paper and/or cardboard or other material. One embodiment of the present invention may comprise a barbed protrusion or flexible biasing elements for securing attachment to the container. The attached article may comprise, inter alia, greeting cards, CD'"'"'s, DVD'"'"'s and the like. The apparatus may further comprise opposing grippable surfaces to grasp and securingly hold the article while the apparatus is secured on container.

Claims

1. An apparatus for attaching an article to a container, comprising:

front and rear opposing levers, the front lever having a front surface and the rear lever having a back surface;

a biasing spring disposed between the front and rear opposing levers;

a front gripping element comprising an inner surface and disposed on the front opposing lever;

a rear gripping element comprising an inner surface and disposed on the rear opposing lever, wherein the inner surfaces of the front and rear gripping elements are opposing and wherein the biasing spring provides a biasing force that may be overcome and that biases the inner surfaces of the front and rear gripping elements together in a closed position;

a barbed element attached to the back surface of the rear lever, the barbed element comprising a distal portion, a proximal portion and a junction therebetween, the distal portion comprising a tapered profile and a pointed distal tip;

an attachment mechanism attached to the front surface of the front lever; and

a decoration comprising a complementary attachment mechanism, whereby the decoration is removably attached to the attachment mechanism.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the attachment mechanism attached to the front surface of the front lever comprises a barbed element and wherein the complementary attachment mechanism on the decoration comprises an aperture.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the attachment mechanism and complementary attachment mechanism comprise opposable magnets.

4. An apparatus for attaching an article to a container, comprising:

a frame comprising a front side, the front side having an interior surface and an exterior surface, a top side, the top side having an interior and an exterior surface, a back side, the back side having an interior and an exterior surface;

an interior section defined by the interior surfaces of the front side, top side and back side;

at least one pair of opposable flexible filaments affixed within the interior section, comprising one flexible filament attached to the front interior surface of the frame and the opposable flexible filament attached to the back side interior surface, wherein the pair of opposable flexible filaments are biased upwardly;

a passageway of low upward and high downward resistance between the at least one pair of opposable flexible filaments; and

an attachment mechanism on the exterior surface of the back side.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising at least two pairs of opposable flexible filaments.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, further comprising at least three pairs of opposable flexible filaments.

7. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein an edge of a container is removably received within passageway of low upward and high downward resistance and wherein an article is attached to the attachment mechanism.

8. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the attachment mechanism is attached to a side wall of a container and wherein an article is removably received within passageway of low upward and high downward resistance.