Coupon catalogue apparatus

• US 6,099,043 A
• Filed: 08/08/1997
• Issued: 08/08/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gerald A. Story
• Original Assignee: Gerald A. Story
• Inventors: Story, Gerald A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Han, Frances
• Application Number:
  US08/908,899
• Time in Patent Office: 1,096 Days
• Field of Search: 283/98, 283/99, 283/117, 283/51, 283/56, 283/100, 283/105, 283/112, 283/114, 283/67, 283/102, 281/15.1, 235/493
• US Class Current: 283/99
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/02 Postcards; Greeting, menu, business or like cards; Letter cards or letter-sheets B42D25/00 takes precedence; envelopes B65D27/00

Abstract

A coupon catalogue comprising a pack of equal sized cards which is readily concealable and carried on the person in a clothing pocket or a purse or a wallet, which can be fanned to expose all of the cards in the pack for simultaneous viewing, and which can be utilized to obtain complimentary goods and services without requiring that portions of the catalogue be torn, punched, marked, or located by using a table of contents in the coupon catalogue.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture comprising a coupon catalogue apparatus including:

(a) a plurality of cards of substantially equal shape and dimension each having a first and second side and a peripheral edge;

(b) means for pivotally attaching the cards at a point adjacent the peripheral edge of each of the cards to maintain the cards in a stacked registered configuration and to permit the cards to pivot about said point to fan out from said stacked registered configuration and to permit adjacent cards to slide over one another;

(c) at least one goods source indicia on the first side of at least one of the plurality of cards identifying a source of discounted goods offered to a bearer of the card;

(d) at least one goods confirmation indicia on said first side of the at least one of the plurality of cards associated with said goods source indicia on said first side and alterable to confirm that a bearer of the catalogue used the catalogue to obtain the goods offered by said source of the goods identified on said first side;

(e) at least one entertainment source indicia on the second side of at least one of the plurality of cards identifying a source of discounted services offered to a bearer of the card; and

(f) at least one entertainment confirmation indicia on said second side of the at least one of the plurality of cards associated with said entertainment source indicia on said second side and alterable to confirm that a bearer of the catalogue used the catalogue to obtain entertainment offered by said entertainment source identified on said second side.

2. The article of manufacture comprising a coupon catalogue apparatus of claim 1 wherein at least one of said goods confirmation indicia and said entertainment confirmation indicia consists solely of at least one of words and images concealed by a scratch-off type material.

3. The article of manufacture comprising a coupon catalogue apparatus of claim 1 wherein at least one of said first and second sides of at least one of said plurality of cards comprises means for playing an audio message.