Patent ID: 7020991

Claim:
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 slit 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-arm portions, which are marginal with respect to the left and right side-edges of the sheet; the configuration of the sheet with the slit therein is such as to create an aperture between the side-arms of the slit, into which, when the device is fitted over a bottle, the neck of the bottle is received, the front-panel portion in front of the bottle, and the fixing-loop portion around and behind the neck of the bottle; a front/back width of the aperture is defined as the distance from a line joining the left and right bottom-ends of the slit 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 of the aperture created by the slit is defined as the width between the left and right leg-portions of the slit; the left/right width and the front/back width of the aperture are so related that the aperture has a configuration that can be characterised as wide-and-short as distinct from tall-and-narrow; the device is so structured, as a whole device, that it cannot come to rest on the neck of the bottle with both side-arms touching the neck of the bottle, but the device can come 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.