Purses – wallets – and protective covers – Pocket or purse-carried container – Paper money container
Patent
1988-08-01
1990-01-23
Weaver, Sue A.
Purses, wallets, and protective covers
Pocket or purse-carried container
Paper money container
150111, 150113, 383 23, 383 37, 383 39, A45C 100
Patent
active
048951986
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
DESCRIPTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to money pouches, more especially a plurality of such pouches intended to hold different types of currency, and to a carrier for such a plurality of pouches, which combination of carrier and pouches is herein referred to as a money organiser.
2. Background to the Invention
Travellers through foreign countries frequently experience difficulty in monitoring segregation of different currencies, especially coinage, and of selecting a currency to be used on a particular day or occasion. Moreover coinage, often needed on first arrival in one country, is often not available from a bank in a preceding country, so that it is often advantageous to carry at least small amounts of all possible currencies which may be wanted, and to store such currencies when not travelling.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a solution to these problems.
THE INVENTION
According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a money organiser which comprises a plurality of pouches for holding currencies of differeing types, currency-type labels for attachment to the respective pouches, and a carrier for said pouches which comprises a flexible sheet capable of attachment to a supporting member to depend therefrom, said carrier sheet and pouches having mutually cooperable means by which the pouches can be attached to the carrier with the currency labels visible.
Preferably, the pouches are of a flat shape, with a windowed pocket on one face for receiving a label. In one embodiment, a rigid tag is provided on the other face of the pouch and for insertion into a carrier sheet slot to attach the pouch to said carrier. The pouch is thus attached to the outside of the carrier sheet, with the currency label on its outer face. In another embodiment, slots are provided in the pouch adjacent the periphery thereof for receiving tabs, conveniently twist tabs, provided on the carrier sheet.
In the first-mentioned embodiment, the tag is preferably integrally formed with an upper edging strip for the pouch, said strip being foldable generally about its longitudinal centre line so that two parts on opposite sides of said line can be secured together, as by means of press studs or rivets, with the upper edge of the pouch material gripped between them. In the second embodiment, the carrier sheet is preferably provied with spaced reinforcement strips which carry the twistable or other tabs.
The pouch material is preferably a flexible plastics material such as pvc, and at least the material forming the outer face may be transparent or translucent. The upper edging strip with integral tag or pouch attachment slots may be formed of a rigid plastics material such as polypropylene. A longitudinal opening, closable and reopenable by a slider, may be provided in the pouch material on the outer face thereof, for example above or to the side of the label-receiving pocket.
According to another aspect of the invention, therefore, there is provided a money pouch which is generally of a flat shape with a windowed pocket on one face, the pouch comprising a bag of flexible transparent material openable and closable by a sliding fastener, the bag depending from an upper edging strip which is formed with a means for enabling attachment of the pouch to a carrier. In one embodiment, the edging strip of the pouch is integrally formed with attachment means comprising a rigid tag depending from the edging strip over the face of the pouch remote from the windowed pocket. In another embodiment, the attachment means is constituted by slots in the edging strip.
A preferred tag in the first embodiment is of a sideways E-shape, having the "free" ends of its limbs integral with the edging strip, thereby to form a buckle by which the money pouch can be attached to and worn on a belt.
According to another aspect of the invention, there is provided a carrier for money pouches, which carrier comprises a flexible sheet having releasable means enabling its suspension from a supporting member either with on
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