Patent ID: 7520425

Claim:
A slide-out stored value card device comprising: a housing having an upper shell and a lower shell fastened to said upper shell with an internal space between said shells, said upper shell being generally flat with side walls and having on a flat surface an external display to provide viewers with a card identification as well as other saved information and at least one control button for relaying external depressions to said internal space and said lower shell having an outer plate being formed with a large rectangular opening and having four perpendicular side walls and an inner plate in a two-tiered structure to form a pair of parallel guide slots between said two plates of said lower shell; a planar card body having two opposite longer sides and two opposite shorter sides as well as a lower surface and an upper surface, said lower surface having a magnetic stripe of a financial data extending along one of said longer sides and a pair of tabs extending from said shorter sides of said card body opposite to said magnetic stripe, wherein said tabs of said card body being received in said guide slots of said lower shell so that said magnetic stripe is slidingly exposed by a push of a finger to facilitate a machine reading of said financial data; and an electronic messaging means retained in said cubic space of said housing which includes a power supply, a processing unit, and a speaker and at least one switch triggered by said control button.