Credit card billfold and a flexible card protecting flap

• US 3,946,781 A
• Filed: 04/25/1975
• Issued: 03/30/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.
• Original Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.
• Inventors: Reis, John P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Norton, Donald F.
• Application Number:
  US05/571,735
• Time in Patent Office: 340 Days
• Field of Search: 150/39, 150/35, 229/72, 40/104.19, 40/124.2
• US Class Current: 150/143
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 1/06 Wallets devices for the prevention of theft or loss of wallets A45C13/185; for holding keys A45C11/32; Notecases

Abstract

A billfold or wallet for carrying a plurality of credit cards or the like in readily accessible position including a flexible flap member protecting the cards. The wallet includes a pair of plastic liners each forming a plurality of separate pockets for receiving credit cards therein, and a flexible flap covering the pockets in order to protect the credit cards located therein from abrasive wear and to prevent the credit cards from inadvertently slipping out of the wallet. The flexible flap is made from a thin, transparent plastic material so that the cards may be easily selected, and the flap is secured in such a manner as to facilitate removal or insertion of the credit cards.

Claims

1. A multi-card billfold of the type for carrying a plurality of cards in shingled, and partially exposed relationship to one another, said billfold comprising at least one flexible wall having a plurality of parallel and spaced apart slits therein, a plurality of pockets disposed adjacent said flexible wall for receiving said cards through said slits in stacked, shingled relationship, and a flexible flap member secured along one edge to said flexible wall and liftably covering the front surface of said front flexible wall so as to cover cards projecting from said respective slits for securing said cards in said pockets.

2. The billfold of claim 1 including a second flexible wall defining an envelope-like opening with said one flexible wall, a generally rectangular and flat plastic pocket liner defining said plurality of pockets, said pocket liner being received in said envelope-like opening such that said pockets are aligned with said spaced apart slits.

3. The billfold set forth in claim 2, wherein said pocket liner includes a back member of heat sealable plastic having a generally rectangular shape and having a front side, a rear side and two opposite edges, a plurality of heat sealable plastic pocket members of generally rectangular shape and each having an upper edge, a lower edge, and opposite side edges, said pocket members being stacked in overlapping and shingled relationship against the front side of said back member, said pocket members and back member being heat sealed together to thereby form said pockets.

4. A billfold for carrying a plurality of cards in shingled, and partially exposed relationship to one another, said billfold comprising a front flexible wall secured to a back flexible wall to form an envelope-like opening therein, said front wall having a plurality of parallel and spaced apart slits cut therein, a generally rectangular and flat plastic pocket liner including a plurality of pockets disposed in said envelope-like opening and secured between said flexible walls for receiving said cards through said slits in stacked, shingled relationship, and a generally rectangular flexible flap member liftably covering the cards projecting from said slits.

5. The billfold of claim 4 wherein said flexible flap member is comprised of thin transparent plastic.

6. The billfold set forth in claim 5 wherein said flexible flap member includes a top edge secured to an edge of said front flexible wall by stitching and includes an opposite lower edge slidably receivable in one of said slits.

7. The billfold set forth in claim 5 wherein said flexible flap member is integrally connected to said pocket liner and is folded over said flexible wall to be slidably receivable in one of said slits.

8. The billfold set forth in claim 4, wherein said pocket liner comprises a back member of heat sealable plastic having a generally rectangular shape and having a front side, a rear side and two opposite edges, a plurality of heat sealable plastic pocket members of generally rectangular shape and each having an upper edge, a lower edge, and opposite side edges, said pocket members being stacked in overlapping and shingled relationship against the front side of said back member, said pocket members and back member being heat sealed together to thereby form said pockets and wherein said flexible flap member is integrally connected to said back member and overlaps said pockets for securing said cards therein and protecting them from abrasive wear.

9. The billfold set forth in claim 8, wherein said flexible flap member is heat sealed to the rear side of said back member and is folded over said back member and said pockets such that said pockets are disposed between said flexible flap member and said front side of the back member.