Patent ID: 6799390
Filing Date: 2004-10-05
Classification: G09F

Abstract:
Greetings device, comprising a sheet of thick paper or card material, wherein:the sheet has a top edge, a bottom edge, and left and right side-edges; the sheet includes a slit, which extends right through the material of the sheet; the slit is of an inverted U-shape, having a cross-portion of the silt that lies adjacent to and alongside the top edge of the sheet, and having left and right leg-portions of the slit, which lie adjacent to and alongside the left and right side edges of the sheet, and which extend down to respective left and right bottom ends of the leg-portions; the configuration of the slit is such as to create a front-panel portion of the sheet and a fixing-loop portion of the sheet; the fixing-loop portion of the sheet, thus configured, comprises a cross-bar portion, which is marginal with respect to the top-edge of the sheet, and left and right side-arms, which are marginal with respect to the left an right side-edges of the sheet; the configuration of the sheet with the slit therein is such: that the device is suitable for fitment over the neck of a bottle, the front-panel portion in front of the bottle, and the fixing-loop portion around and behind the neck of the bottle; as to create a gap between the side-arms, into which, when the device fitted over the bottle, the neck of the bottle is received; that the gap, as a whole, is so wide that the device cannot come to rest on the bottle with both side-arms touching the neck of the bottle; that the device comes to rest on the neck of the bottle in such manner that the side-arms curve gently back from the front-panel portion, without imparting a strain at the bottom ends of the slit tending to tear the side-arms away from the front-panel portion; a front/back width of the device is defined as the distance from a line joining the left and right bottom-ends of the silt to the furthest point on the cross-portion of the slit, the front/back width being measured with the device laid out flat; a left/right width is defined as the width between the left and right leg-portions of the slit; the left/right width, plus Â½-inch, is greater than the front/back width; and the front/back width is smaller than 3 inches.