Special receptacle or package – For pocket or personal use
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-08
2001-05-15
Fidei, David T. (Department: 3728)
Special receptacle or package
For pocket or personal use
C024S01700A
Reexamination Certificate
active
06230878
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates generally to improvements in articles of manufacture of the type used as money and credit card holders, the improvements more particularly contributing to personalizing of holder to correspondingly contribute to its gift value, as for a birthday, anniversary or like occasions.
EXAMPLES OF THE PRIOR ART
It is known from common experience that preparatory to using a specific credit card or dispensing a specific denomination of paper currency, the locating of the credit card or the paper bill is made more convenient if made from an assemblage of credit cards or paper currency in which the credit card or paper bill is known to exist. Thus, in the prior patents, there is disclosed and illustrated numerous articles of manufacture which limit the searching for a credit card or paper bill to a single assemblage thereof, such prior patents being exemplified by U.S. Pat. No. 5,944,080 for “Money And Card Holder” issued to Podwika on Aug. 31, 1999, U.S. Pat. No. 5,520,230 for “Pocket Card Holder With Money Clip” to Summer, III on May 28, 1996, U.S. Pat. No. 1,915,213 for “Card Case” to Brenner on May 24, 1932, and U.S. Pat. No. 1,613,380 for “Card Case” issued to Broomhall on Nov. 27, 1925. The sampling of prior patents just provided, and particularly including the '380 patent, is because a closed loop of a rubber band is readily identifiable as a component thereof.
In the patented articles of manufacture noted, and in all other known similarly manufactured articles, the closed loop rubber band is undoubtedly perceived as a component so commonplace as to be devoid of gift value and, consequently, requiring cooperating structural components to make up for the deficiency of gift value. Stated somewhat otherwise, the prior art instructs that the rubber band has to be significantly embellished to qualify as a birthday, anniversary, retirement, or other special occasion gift.
Broadly, it is an object to provide a noteworthy gift or manufacture serving as a holder for credit cards and/or folded paper currency that is rubber-banded without the significant embellishment shortcoming of the prior art.
More particularly, it is an object to use to advantage the construction material of the rubber band to achieve an assembly thereto of a component having a personalizing relation to the intended recipient, so that the assembly has significant gift value, all as will be better understood as the description proceeds.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1613380 (1927-01-01), Broomhall
patent: 1619644 (1927-03-01), Wetzel
patent: 1915213 (1933-06-01), Brenner
patent: 1960690 (1934-05-01), Blair
patent: 3712463 (1973-01-01), Bestehorn
patent: 5054816 (1991-10-01), Rosengarten
patent: 5279019 (1994-01-01), Knickle
patent: 5351017 (1994-09-01), Yano et al.
patent: 5520230 (1996-05-01), Sumner, III
patent: 5944080 (1999-08-01), Podwika
Fidei David T.
Myron Amer PC
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