Special receptacle or package – For holding a machine readable recording medium – For holding an optical disc
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-14
2001-07-31
Foster, Jim (Department: 3728)
Special receptacle or package
For holding a machine readable recording medium
For holding an optical disc
C206S039000, C206S457000, C283S117000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06267233
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates generally to admission procedures for theatrical, sports and other entertainment environments and particularly to the admission ticket handling and processes used therein. The invention further relates to the distribution of information and promotional materials in such environments.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In most theaters, sports and other entertainment environments, the customers and patrons of the event purchase tickets either from a box office or in advance and thereafter proceed to an entrance door at which point the tickets are presented to gain admission. Often customers and patrons are given instructional or promotional materials at such ticket presentation together with a ticket stub or stamp ticket portion. Thereafter the customers or patrons of the event are admitted to the facility and the ticket stub or stamped ticket is retained to identify a paid customer or patron should such identification be necessary subsequent to admission. In addition, certain entertainment theaters and sports environments utilized assigned seating in which case the retained ticket stub or stamped ticket serves to identify the assigned seat for the customer or patron.
A similar process occurs in other environments such as those utilized in transportation activities such as airports, railroad stations and bus terminals. Thus there are a wide variety of events and activities which employ some sort of admission ticket utilized in gaining access to the facility and at which various promotional or informational material are provided to the customer or patron upon entrance to the facility.
The admission tickets utilized in such varied facilities are subject to a corresponding variation of form size and structure. However, most admission tickets generally comprise relatively small pieces of paper or cardboard baring the necessary information and event identification to confirm ticket purchase and the customer or patrons right to admission. As mentioned above, many facilities in which an admission ticket is utilized to gain access also participate in the common practice of distributing various informational, advertising or promotional materials to the customer or patron. Typically such materials take the form of loose paper sheets which are often variously colored or embossed with various interesting images to provide an attractive and interesting item which encourages the customer or patron to absorb the desired information or promotional advertising messages. While the distribution of such promotional material is opportune for the event organizers, operators of the environments and facilities within in which such events are carried forward often find the distribution of such advertising, promotional and informative materials to be a nuisance or undesired expense due to the tendency of customers or patrons to carelessly discard such materials. In addition, the customer or patron often completely ignores the promotional material and discards unread and unexamined at the first opportunity.
Thus while there exists a need and/or desire on the part of facility operators to communicate promotional, advertising or information material to patrons of the facility, the resulting problems of ineffective communication and additional costs of cleaning up discarded material tends to discourage the distribution of such materials. As a result, important opportunities to communicate advertising, promotional or informational material to consumers is not effectively exploited.
There remains therefore a continuing need in the art for a low cost and effective means for communicating promotional, advertising and informational materials to attendees and customers at ticketed events such as theaters, sports, other entertainment and transportation activities such as airports, bus terminals or railroad stations.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, it is a general object of the present invention to provide an improved means for communicating advertising, promotional and information materials to a customer or attendee at ticketed event. It is a more particular object of the present invention to provide an admission ticket receptacle for use at such ticketed events which effectively communicates the desired advertising, promotional and informational materials to the ticket purchasing attendees.
In accordance with the present invention there is provided a ticket receptacle constructed to receive an admission ticket, the ticket receptacle comprising: a plurality of generally planar panels joined by a plurality of fold lines, each of the panels defining an upper edge; a plurality of images formed on the panels; and closure means extending from one of the panels, the plurality of panels defining a closed configuration by being folded about the fold lines to overlie each other and to form a ticket-retaining pocket for receiving an admission ticket and the closure means being attachable to one of the panels to maintain the panels in the closed configuration.
In accordance with another aspect of the present invention there is provided a ticket receptacle for constructed to receive and support a ticket, the ticket receptacle comprising: a generally planar front panel having first and second opposed surfaces, a first upper edge and a first lower edge; a generally planar rear panel joined to the front panel along a first fold line and having third and fourth opposed surfaces and a second upper edge and a second lower edge; a generally planar interior panel joined to the rear panel along a second fold line and having fifth and sixth opposed surfaces and a third upper edge and a third lower edge; and a generally planar ticket flap joined to the front panel along a third fold line and having seventh and eighth opposed surfaces and a fourth upper edge and a fourth lower edge and having an adhesive area proximate the fourth lower edge, the interior panel, the front panel and the ticket flap being foldable about the second, first and third fold lines respectively between an open configuration generally coplanar with the rear panel and a closed configuration in which the interior panel overlies the rear panel, the front panel overlies the interior panel and the ticket flap wraps about and overlies the rear panel and is releasably attached to the rear panel by the adhesive area.
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Hippely Keith
Stern Jon L.
Ekstrand Roy A.
Foster Jim
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