Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Display card – Having a curved display panel
Patent
1995-03-13
1996-03-19
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Display card
Having a curved display panel
40455, 40457, A47G 700
Patent
active
054994659
ABSTRACT:
A talking picture frame includes a pressure-sensitive switch which, when activated, e.g., by lifting the frame from a frame-supporting surface, electrically energizes an audio system housed within the frame to playback a prerecorded personal message which augments the visual information represented by a framed picture. Preferably, the switch includes a plunger-type switch actuator which normally extends downwardly from the bottom edge of the frame. When the bottom edge of the frame is resting on a supporting surface, e.g. a table top, the weight of the frame, in cooperation with the supporting surface, moves the actuator, against a spring force, to a retracted position in which no electrical power is provided to the audio system. When the frame is lifted, the switch actuator moves through a position in which a control signal is produced which initiates playback of the recorded message. Preferably, the switch actuator is movably mounted on the frame so as to extend outwardly from either of two different edges of the frame, whereby the actuator can be engaged and moved to its retracted position by the frame-supporting surface whether the frame is supported in a landscape or portrait orientation.
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Bilinski Peter J.
Davis Cassandra
Dorner Kenneth J.
Eastman Kodak Company
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