Purses – wallets – and protective covers – Pocket or purse-carried container – Card container
Patent
1997-07-31
2000-07-18
Garbe, Stephen P.
Purses, wallets, and protective covers
Pocket or purse-carried container
Card container
206 395, 206 396, A45C 1118
Patent
active
060892897
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention concerns a plastic holder for two credit cards, preferably cards of standard format used instead of cash payment (e.g. banker's cards, credit cards, phone cards, and the like). The holder under the invention is made of injection molded plastic and designed so that it allows simple and trouble-free insertion and extraction of individual cards, without danger of damage to the surface of the cards or the recording on the magnetic strip. The invention belongs to the IPC class B 65 D 65/00.
The technical problem which is successfully solved by the claimed invention is how to design and carry out a holder that will be easy to injection mold and whose form will allow easy and trouble-free insertion and extraction of two cards, whereby the two cards will be protected against accidental falling out, and may be of non-standard thickness.
Credit cards are known to be inserted into special holders in order to protect their sensitive surface and the embossed data or data recorded on a magnetic strip. These holders make it impossible to damage the surface of the card or the magnetic tape. The main drawback of the known holders is in that their form and structure allow the insertion of only a single credit or other card. When one possesses several cards, these--when put into holders--will make up a greater thickness and will be inconvenient for carrying in a wallet or in the pocket. Besides, the structure of known single-card holders does not allow simple injection molding without supporting elements, which produce holes in the finished holder.
The plastic holder for two credit cards in accordance with the invention eliminates the drawbacks of known implementations by means of a design solution which makes it possible to produce a holder in which there is space for two credit cards, and which is easy to manufacture by injection molding, because of an intermediate rib which runs along the middle of the lateral walls and the end wall, thus representing a guide for each individual card in the holder without damaging its surface and/or the magnetic strip, and in addition, providing support during the injection molding procedure, so that no holding elements need to be added. The improved plastic holder for two credit cards in accordance with the invention improves the basic design solution in that the elasticity of the cards themselves is utilized to prevent accidental fall-out of the cards. Inside the holder, special protrusions are added which slightly bend the card and thus prevent it from falling out.
The invention will be described by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a top view of a plastic holder for two credit cards in accordance with the invention with partly inserted cards;
FIG. 2 is a side view of a plastic holder for two cards in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the detail of FIG. 2 illustrating a pair of followers holding the cards;
FIG. 4 is a bottom view of a plastic holder for two credit cards in accordance with the invention, without inserted cards, in a partial cross-section;
FIG. 5 is a cross-section of a plastic holder for two credit cards in accordance with the invention taken along line 5--5 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 6 is a top plan view, of embodiment I of a plastic holder for two credit cards in accordance with the invention, with inserted cards;
FIG. 7 is a top plan view, of embodiment II of a plastic holder for two credit cards in accordance with the invention, with inserted cards;
FIG. 8 is a front elevation view of a plastic holder for two cards of different thickness in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 9 is a rear view (opposite the opening for inserting the cards) of a plastic holder for two credit cards of different thickness in accordance with the invention, with one inserted card;
FIG. 10 is a top view of the shorter side of the plastic holder for two credit cards of different thickness in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 11 is the 11--11 cross-section of the plastic holder for two credit cards taken along t
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Garbe Stephen P.
Mai Tri M.
Schottli Theodor
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