Visor located access card holder

• US 5,330,085 A
• Filed: 12/17/1992
• Issued: 07/19/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Horensky R. Douglas, Robert I. Horensky
• Original Assignee: Horensky R. Douglas, Robert I. Horensky
• Inventors: Horensky, Robert I., Horensky, R. Douglas
• Primary Examiner(s): Sholl, Linda J.
• Application Number:
  US07/993,232
• Time in Patent Office: 579 Days
• Field of Search: 224/277, 224/312, 224/252, 40/643, 40/644, 40/666, 40/593, 24/3 F, 24/3 G, 24/3 J, 24/3 L
• US Class Current: 224/312
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/00 Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0035 Sun visors
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/05 mounted on sun visor
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/04 by land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/049 giving information to passengers inside the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/16 by clamps
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/201 Enclosures enveloping completely the labels G09F3/203 - G09F3/207 take precedence

Abstract

A device intended to be removably attached to an automobile sun visor having a pocket for the safe and convenient storage of a plastic access card is disclosed. Said device is constructed of a plurality of rectangular sheets of equal size and a clip comprised of a thin, planar, rigid, substantially rectangular base and a resilient member of constant thickness and width projecting from the base having an arcuate portion then extending towards an edge of the base with an inclination towards the plane of the base such that the free end of the clip is in close proximity to the plane of the base as well as said edge of the base. The base is eider held within first and second opposed plastic sheets fixedly attached to each other along the edges or fixedly attached directly to the second sheet. A third plastic sheet is attached on three edges to the second sheet; the fourth unattached edge provides an aperture of a size suitable for insertion and removal of a plastic access card. The clip member extending from the base projects through an aperture in the first sheet of plastic, if used, opposite the second and third sheets defining the pocket, and is entirely exposed. The clip member is shaped such that the arcuate portion provides the portion extending longitudinally with a resilience in the direction normal the base such that secure but removable attachment to an automobile sun visor is enabled.

Claims

1. A device intended for removable attachment to an automobile sun visor wherein provision is made for a pocket specifically intended for safe and convenient storage of a standard plastic access card;

said device comprising a plurality of plastic sheets and a clip, said plurality of plastic sheets comprising at least one first, one second and one third plastic sheet, said clip comprising a base and a clip member projecting from said base;

said base being substantially rectangular in aggregate perimeter with at least one substantially linear edge, possessing first and second planar surfaces and a width and a length approximating, respectively, the width and length of a standard plastic access card and further possessing a substantially constant thickness at least as great as the thickness of said access card;

said clip member projecting from said first surface of said base, possessing a thickness of lesser dimension than width further possessing an arcuate portion proximate the juncture with said base and a substantially planar portion extending from said arcuate portion at a small inclination with respect to said first surface of said base, terminating in an edge proximate to one said substantially linear edge of said base;

said clip member thereby possessing a flexibility comparative with respect to and in a direction normal to said base sufficient to admit the width of a typical automobile sun visor and a resilience in said direction normal to said base sufficient to exert a compressive force when displaced by the width of an automobile sun visor adequate to retain said device in a position of removable attachment to said automobile sun visor;

each of said plurality of plastic sheets being substantially rectangular in shape, each having first and second opposed planar surfaces and four substantially linear edges, each said sheet further possessing a width at least as great as the width of a standard plastic access card and a thickness less than the thickness of said access card;

each of said first and second plastic sheets further possessing both a width and a length slightly greater, respectively, than the width and length of said base, said first sheet possessing an aperture through which said clip member projects from the base and disposed in planar alignment with both said base and said second sheet such that said first sheet lies above said base, facing said first surface of the base and said second sheet lies below said base with said first surface of said second sheet facing said second surface of said base, said four edges of said first sheet and said four edges of said second sheet being aligned in four substantially linear pairs of edges fixedly attached such that said base is enclosed-between said fast and second plastic sheets;

said third plastic sheet disposed in planar alignment with said second sheet facing said second surface of said second sheet and having at least two opposed edges each attached to an aligned edge of said second sheet forming thereby a pocket between said second and third sheets, at least one edge of said third sheet having a free linear dimension at least equal to the width of a standard access card thus providing an aperture into said pocket between said second and third plastic sheets.

2. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said clip comprising said base and said clip member consists of a single molded piece of plastic.

3. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said base is constructed of plastic and said clip member is fixedly attached to said base.

4. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said pocket is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said clip member.

5. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said pocket is parallel to the longitudinal axis of said clip member.

6. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein a plurality of pockets in planar alignment each appropriate for the storage of an access card substantially similar to said pocket between said second surface of said second sheet and said first surface of said third sheet are provided by the attachment of plastic sheets additional to said first, second and third sheets in a manner substantially similar to the manner of attachment described wherein said third sheet is fixedly attached to said second sheet whereby a fourth sheet is attached to said third sheet each successive sheet of said plurality of sheets is attached to the preceding sheet in said manner.

7. A device in accordance with claim 6 wherein said clip comprising said base and said clip member consists of a single molded piece of plastic.

8. A device in accordance with claim 6 wherein said base is constructed of plastic and said clip member is fixedly attached to said base.

9. A device in accordance with claim 6 wherein said pocket is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said clip member.

10. A device in accordance with claim 6 wherein said pocket is parallel to the longitudinal axis of said clip member.

11. A devices intended for removable attachment to an automobile sun visor wherein provision is made for a pocket specifically intended for safe and convenient storage of a standard plastic access card;

said device comprising a plurality of plastic sheets and a clip, said plurality of plastic sheets comprising at least one second and one third plastic sheet, said clip comprising a base and a clip member projecting from said base;

said base being substantially rectangular in aggregate perimeter with at least one substantially linear edge, possessing first and second planar surfaces and a width and a length approximating, respectively, the width and length of a standard plastic access card and further possessing a substantially constant thickness at least as great as the thickness of a said standard access card;

said clip member-projecting from said first surface of said base, possessing a thickness of a lesser dimension than width further possessing an arcuate portion proximate the juncture with said base and a substantially planar portion extending from said arcuate portion at a small inclination with respect to said first surface of said base, terminating in an edge proximate one said linear edge of said base;

said clip member thereby possessing a flexibility comparative with respect to and in a direction normal to said base sufficient to admit the width of a typical automobile sun visor and a resilience in the direction normal to said base sufficient to retain said device in a position of removable attachment to said automobile sun visor;

each of said plurality of plastic sheets being substantially rectangular in shape, each having first and second opposed planar surfaces and four substantially linear edges, each said sheet further possessing a width at least as great as the width of a standard plastic access card and a thickness less than the thickness of said standard access card;

said second plastic sheet possessing both a width and a length approximating the width and length of said base and disposed in planar alignment with said base, facing and fixedly attached to said second surface of said base, said third plastic sheet disposed in planar alignment with said second sheet facing said second surface of said second sheet and having at least two opposed edges each attached to an aligned edge of said second sheet, at least one edge of said third sheet having a free linear dimension at least equal to the width of a standard access card thus providing an aperture into said pocket between said second and third plastic sheets.

12. A device in accordance with claim 11 wherein said clip comprising said base and said clip member consists of a single molded piece of plastic.

13. A device in accordance with claim 11 wherein said base is constructed of plastic and said clip member is fixedly attached to said base.

14. A device in accordance with claim 11 wherein said pocket is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said clip member.

15. A device in accordance with claim 11 wherein said pocket is parallel to the longitudinal axis of said clip member.

16. A device in accordance with claim 11 further possessing a first plastic sheet wherein a plurality of pockets in planar alignment each appropriate for the storage of an access card substantially similar to said pocket between said second surface of said second sheet and said first surface of said third sheet are provided by the attachment of plastic sheets additional to said first, second and third sheets in a manner substantially similar to the manner of attachment described wherein said third sheet is fixedly attached to said second sheet whereby a fourth sheet is attached to said third sheet each successive sheet of said plurality of sheets is attached to the preceding sheet in said manner.

17. A device in accordance with claim 16 wherein said clip comprising said base and said clip member consists of a single molded piece of plastic.

18. A device in accordance with claim 16 wherein said base is constructed of plastic and said clip member is fixedly attached to said base.

19. A device in accordance with claim 16 wherein said pocket is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said clip member.

20. A device in accordance with claim 16 wherein said pocket is parallel to the longitudinal axis of said clip member.