Gift card hanger system

• US 9,248,946 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2011
• Issued: 02/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: e2Interactive Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Gift Card Impressions LLC (Millennium Prime, Inc.)
• Inventors: Glass, Brett R.
• Primary Examiner(s): STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J
• Application Number:
  US13/114,893
• Publication Number:
  US 20120223144A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,715 Days
• Field of Search: 235/380
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 15/045 Multi-part cards or sheets, i.e. combined with detachably mounted articles
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/285 Gift cards
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 73/0028 by means of adhesive, heat-seal or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 73/0064 the articles being supported by or suspended from a tag-like element

Abstract

A system for hanging a gift card includes a gift card assembly suspended from a gift card holder assembly by a looped strip of flexible material. The gift card assembly includes a removeably attached gift card and the gift card holder assembly includes a gift card holder for receiving the gift card after detachment from the gift card assembly.

Claims

1. A transaction card hanger system comprising:

a transaction card assembly, comprising a panel engaged to a removable transaction card, the transaction card assembly attached to a transaction card holder assembly by suspending the card assembly from the holder assembly by an elongated tab configured as a loop, wherein the elongated tab is disposed proximal to the bottom most edge of the transaction card holder assembly and wherein the transaction card assembly hangs away from the transaction card holder assembly in a completely non-overlapping arrangement; and

wherein the loop passes through an aperture of the transaction card assembly, and the loop is secured at a first end and second end of the tab to the holder assembly, with the transaction card assembly suspended between the first end and the second end.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said transaction card holder assembly includes a holder to receive the removable transaction card removed from the transaction card assembly.

3. The transaction card hanger system of claim 1, wherein the transaction card holder assembly further comprises an electronic circuit.

4. The transaction card hanger system of claim 3, wherein the electronic circuit further comprises:

a speaker;

a power source;

a controller; and

memory.

5. The transaction card hanger system of claim 1, wherein the panel further comprises at least one aperture aligned with indicia on the removable transaction card.

6. A transaction card hanger system comprising:

a transaction card holder assembly comprising a transaction card holder mounted upon a transaction card holder backer panel;

an elongated tab extending away from a bottom most edge of said transaction card holder assembly, said tab having a distal end initially free for passing through an aperture in a transaction card assembly, said transaction card assembly comprising a transaction card mounted upon a transaction card backer panel;

wherein the distal end is engaged to a surface of said transaction card holder assembly; and

whereby said transaction card assembly hangs away from said transaction card holder assembly in a completely non-overlapping arrangement.

7. The transaction card hanger system of claim 6, wherein the transaction card holder assembly further comprises an electronic circuit.

8. The transaction card hanger system of claim 7, wherein the electronic circuit further comprises:

a speaker;

a power source;

a controller; and

memory.

9. The transaction card hanger system of claim 6, wherein the transaction card backer panel further comprises at least one aperture aligned with indicia on the removable transaction card.

10. A gift card holder system comprising:

gift card holder assembly including a first backer panel;

a detachable gift card holder engaged to a face of the first backer panel;

an elongated tab extending from a lower portion of the first backer panel, the tab including a distal end in an initially free state;

a second backer panel engaged to a removable a gift card, the second backer panel including an aperture for accepting the distal end therethrough, wherein the distal end is engaged to the first backer panel upon passing through the aperture; and

wherein the second backer panel assembly hangs on the elongated tab and projects away from the gift card holder assembly such that a majority of the second backer panel is disposed in a completely non-overlapping arrangement.

11. The gift card holder system of claim 10, wherein the detachable gift card holder comprises two hingedly connected panels and a removable adhesive or one or more slots for receiving and retaining the removable gift card.

12. The gift card holder system of claim 10, wherein the detachable gift card holder comprises a container including a flap closure.

13. The gift card holder system of claim 10, further comprising an aperture formed in an upper portion of the first backer panel, the aperture sized to accept a display stand peg.

14. The gift card holder system of claim 10, wherein the gift card holder assembly further comprises an electronic circuit.

15. The transaction card hanger system of claim 10, wherein the second backer panel comprises at least one aperture aligned with an indicia on the removable transaction card.