Audible product merchandising tag

• US 5,778,574 A
• Filed: 05/15/1996
• Issued: 07/14/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ronie Reuben
• Original Assignee: Fabco Trading Corp.
• Inventors: Reuben, Ronnie
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorner, Kenneth J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHOP, ANDREA MARIE
• Application Number:
  US08/647,835
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• Field of Search: 40/124.1, 40/124.03, 40/124.11, 40/124.12, 40/124.13, 40/124.14, 40/124.16, 40/594
• US Class Current: 40/124.03
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 1/04 Folded cards
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/14 by strings, straps, chains, or wires

Abstract

An audible product information tag comprised of a pair of panels folded one over the other along a fold line. An electronic program circuit is located in a housing secured to an inner face of one of the panels. A switch actuator is connected at one end to an inner face of the other of the panels and has a switch contact operating connection at an opposed end to enable and disable the electronic programmed circuit. A speaker is connected to the programmed circuit for transmitting an audible message when a switch contact is enabled by the switch actuator upon displacement of the other of the panels a predetermined distance away from the other panel towards an open position. A detachable connection is provided to maintain the panels folded one over the other to a closed position with the switch contact disabled.

Claims

1. An audible product information tag for attachment to a remote product, said tag comprising a card having a pair of panels folded one over the other along a fold line, an electronic program circuit located in a housing secured to an inner face of one of said panels, switch actuation means connected at one end to an inner face of the other of said panels, said switch actuation means having switch contact operating means at an opposed end for enabling and disabling said electronic program circuit, said switch actuation means being a thin flexible strip-like member having a finger portion, said flexible member being glued at said one end to said inner face of said other of said panels, said switch contact operating means being a connection between said finger portion of said flexible member and a normally open contact of a switch, means urging said contact to a normally open position, said finger portion being displaceable in a confined passage of said housing, said strip-like member having a weakened transverse section to act as a hinge, said transverse section being aligned with said fold line, audible speaker means for transmitting an audible message relating to characteristics of said remote product to which said tag is attached when said open contact of said switch is enabled by said switch actuation means upon displacement of said other of said panels a predetermined distance away from said one of said panels towards an open position, engageable detachment means to maintain said panels folded one over the other to a closed position with said switch contact disabled, said engageable detachment means being a detachable and re-engageable adhesive secured on an inner face of one of said panels adjacent a free end edge thereof to permit several opening and retention closures of said card, said other of said panels being a front panel of said card identifying a product, printed messages on said inner face of said front panel, said card having means to attach same to said remote product, said message or printed matter on said inner face of said front panel contains instructions to instruct a user person to reclose said card with said panels juxtaposed and secured by said adhesive after use, said means to attach including an attaching element secured through a hole formed in a corner of said card adjacent said fold line for attaching said card to said remote product.

2. An audible product information tag as claimed in claim 1 wherein said strip-like member has at least a non-conductive face portion, said switch having a normally closed contact positioned adjacent said face portion, an electrically conductive member secured to said face portion and in frictional contact with said normally closed contact when said other of said panels is not displaced to or beyond said predetermined distance, said electrically conductive member bridging said normally open and normally closed contacts when said other of said panels is displaced on said fold line beyond said predetermined distance.

3. An audible product information tag as claimed in claim 1 wherein said adhesive is an elongated adhesive strip disposed along at least a portion of said free edge.