Coupon card system

• US 5,299,834 A
• Filed: 05/01/1992
• Issued: 04/05/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Spensar Kraige
• Original Assignee: Spensar Kraige
• Inventors: Kraige, Spensar
• Primary Examiner(s): Bell, Paul A.
• Application Number:
  US07/877,101
• Time in Patent Office: 704 Days
• Field of Search: 283/51, 283/79, 283/80, 283/81
• US Class Current: 283/51
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/0053 Forms specially designed for commercial use, e.g. bills, receipts, offer or order sheets, coupons
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0205 Coupon
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0208 Indicia
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/023 Adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0241 Repositionable or pressure sensitive adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0257 Multilayer
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0264 Shapes or borders
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0267 die cut
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0272 Labels for containers
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0279 Card, e.g. plastic
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/02 Forms or constructions layered products B32B
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/10 by an adhesive layer

Abstract

An array of coupons is releasably adhered to an underlying support card for easy transport, storage, and redemption. Each coupon and underlying adhesive layer is peeled off as needed. The merchant presses it onto an imprinted space on a store-maintained tracking form. The card has a central support layer of card stock, a bottom layer of reinforcing transparent plastic, and a coupon array layer formed from peel-off label stock.

Claims

1. A collection of coupons physically grouped or ease of use and transport on a durable, compact, credit-card sized card comprising:

a support layer comprising a central thickening layer, said support layer having top and bottom surfaces;

a reinforcing layer comprising a plastic material attached to the bottom surface of said support layer;

a top layer comprising an array of adjacent coupons;

means for adhesively attaching the top layer to the top surface of the support layer so that the coupons can be individually removed from said card and subsequently readhered to another object.

2. The coupon collection of claim 1 in which said top layer further comprises a layer of flexible label stock and a backing paper layer and wherein said means for adhesively attaching the top layer to the support layer further comprises a first adhesive layer releasably securing said flexible label stock to the top surface of said backing paper layer and a second adhesive layer adhering the bottom surface of said backing paper layer onto the top surface of said support layer.

3. The coupon collection of claim 2 in which said flexible label stock layer and said first adhesive layer are die cut into individual, adjacent elements with said elements forming said coupons.

4. The coupon collection of claim 3 further comprising a separate coupon tracking card having a high track surface adapted to receive and readhered said coupons to said high track surface for permanently receiving said coupons.

5. The coupon collection of claim 4 in which said coupons have a polygonal shape and said tracking card has prepinted spaces thereon having borders imprinted with said shape, whereby each space may receive a coupon within the borders of said space.

6. The coupon collection according to claim 1 in which the durable, compact, credit-card sized card has dimensions of approximately two inches by three inches.

7. The combination of a collection of coupons physically grouped for ease of use and transport on a durable, compact, credit-card sized card and a separate tracking card, said combination comprising:

a support layer comprising a central thickening layer, said support layer having top and bottom surfaces;

a reinforcing layer comprising a plastic material attached to the bottom surface of said support layer;

a top layer comprising an array of adjacent coupons;

means for adhesively attaching the top layer to the top surface of the support layer so that the coupons can be individually removed from said card and subsequently readhered to another object; and

said another object comprising a separate coupon tracking card having a high track surface adapted to receive and readhered said coupons to said high track surface for permanently receiving said coupons.

8. The combination according o claim 7 in which each said coupon has the same polygonal shape.

9. The combination according to claim 8 in which the upper surface of said coupon tracking card has polygonal shaped borders printed thereon forming defined spaces for receiving the peeled coupons.

10. The combination according to claim 7 in which the coupons are rectangular.