Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Check – label – or tag – Holder
Patent
1998-11-12
2000-04-18
Silbermann, Joanne
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Check, label, or tag
Holder
206449, 206 37, G09F 0320
Patent
active
06050014&
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF INVENTION
The present invention relates to a card holder arrangement intended for cards that contain specific information and have specific dimensions.
The arrangement includes a rectangular or generally rectangular base plate, two raised first side-edges that extend up from the base plate, one on each long side of the base plate, two raised second side-edges that extend from the base plate, one along each short side of said base plate, and two projections, one on each of said raised first side-edges.
The projections extend in over said base plate and towards each other from that side surface of respective raised first side-edges that lies distal from the base plate, such as to form a space between the projections and the base plate.
The distance between the inwardly facing surfaces of the raised first side-edges is only slightly greater than the distance between the long sides of the card, and the distance between the inwardly facing surfaces of the raised second side-edges is only slightly greater than the distance between the short sides of said card.
The raised second side-edges and the short sides of said base plate include recesses that enable a card placed in the card holder to be gripped at either end of the holder, said recesses dividing the raised second side-edges into two mutually spaced part-edges that lie on each side of the short sides of the holder.
These side-edges include means for preventing a magnetic tape carried on the card from being worn as a result of being inserted into and removed from the card holder.
The base plate also includes one or more ridges which extend parallel with, or generally parallel with, the raised first side-edges, and which have a length that corresponds to or is slightly shorter than the length of the projections. These ridges function to lift a card held in the holder away from the base plate.
DESCRIPTION OF THE BACKGROUND ART
The use of card holders has long been known in many different contexts. These known card holders are mostly used to carry identification cards within business premises and the like, with the purpose of providing the card holder with access to different locations or to access different pieces of equipment in accordance with the authority carried by the card. The card holder is preferably designed to enable the card to be carried in a simple fashion and to be available to the user in different situations.
A card holder will normally be comprised of a base plate having raised edges within which the card can be neatly accommodated. When the card and the card holder have a rectangular shape, it is known to provide the holder with two mutually opposing edges, generally long side-edges, that coact with projections which extend in over the base plate and towards one another, so as to enable the card to be retained between the side-edges and behind the projections.
It is also known that the magnetic strip of a card is liable to be damaged by wear as a result of moving the card into and out of the card holder if the magnetic strip slides against the raised second side-edges.
The solution of providing respective raised second side-edges with a shoulder-like projection that functions to lift the card away from the second side-edge so that the magnetic strip will have no mechanical contact with the second side-edge when moving the card into and out of the card holder is known to the art.
Because the card holder is used with a product that shall be as cheap as possible, it must be possible to produce a card holder of this kind in a beneficial manner both with respect to its manufacture and from an economical aspect.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
TECHNICAL PROBLEMS
When considering to a card holder arrangement according to the earlier standpoint of techniques as described above that is intended to hold a card that contains specific information and has a specific size and that includes a rectangular or generally rectangular base plate, two raised first side-edges that extend up from the base plate, one along each respective long side of t
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