Purses – wallets – and protective covers – Purse or handbag type – With closure
Patent
1999-01-26
2000-06-06
Weaver, Sue A.
Purses, wallets, and protective covers
Purse or handbag type
With closure
150107, 150130, 190902, 383 99, A45C 102, A45C 300, A45C 1304, A45C 1310, A45C 1326
Patent
active
060706287
ABSTRACT:
Handbag with a magnetic flap closure arrangement both closes and latches the top of the handbag. The handbag has arcuate flexible side walls that expand when the front and rear walls of the bag are spread apart to an open position for the bag. The side walls cooperate with the flap arrangement to form a smaller opening that is closed by the flap arrangement when the front and rear walls are moved toward each other into a closed position. The two flaps of the flap arrangement are connected to the front and rear walls respectively, and extend toward each other when the handbag is in the open position. Both are flexible so that they can be pushed downwardly or upwardly to expand the bag opening and allow items to be inserted, removed or seen more easily. In their unflexed, rest positions one flap is lower than the other so that when the front and rear walls are moved toward each other into the closed position, the flaps overlap. A magnet in one of the flaps then attracts a magnetically attractable plate in the other flap to hold the flaps in a selected overlapping position to latch the opening.
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