Audio cassette holder

• US 5,495,971 A
• Filed: 01/13/1994
• Issued: 03/05/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Melba J. Holliday
• Original Assignee: Melba J. Holliday
• Inventors: Holliday, Melba J.
• Primary Examiner(s): JACYNA, J CASIMER
• Application Number:
  US08/180,744
• Time in Patent Office: 782 Days
• Field of Search: 224/42.42, 224/273, 224/901, 224/400, 224/483, 224/543, 224/563, 206/387, 206/387.15, 383/39, 383/109, 248/205.2
• US Class Current: 224/483
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/088 for stowing tape cartridges, compact discs, or the like

Abstract

An audio cassette holder is made of a folded flexible sheet, preferably a single folded sheet of fabric, having a pair of three cassette-holding loose open-at-the-top pockets on a front side of the folded sheet. A hooks and loops fastener first element is fixedly attached to the rear side of the folded sheet. The holder, more particularly, the fastener first element, is detachably mounted on a complementary hooks and loops fastener second element which second element is adhesively fixed to a holder-supporting surface such as an auto dashboard, auto door inner surface or auto seat, so that a cassette can be easily inserted into and suspended in each pocket and can be safely and easily accessed and removed from a pocket by the auto driver and inserted into a cassette tape player or in the case of a compact disc, removed in its package from a pocket and inserted into a CD player. A closable rear flap is provided to prevent spillage of cassettes when the holder is being hand carried or packed. A method of forming the holder from a single rectangular fabric sheet by a series of folding steps and stitching is also disclosed.

Claims

1. An audio cassette holder comprising:

a flexible sheet having a front surface and rear surface;

a series of cassette-holding pockets on said front surface and each sized to receive and hold an inserted cassette;

a hooks and loops fastener first element attached to said rear surface adjacent to an upper edge of said rear surface;

wherein a hooks and loops fastener second element is attachable to a desired substantial vertical holder-supporting surface such that said first element is detachably connected to said second element to fasten said flexible sheet and said series of pockets to said supporting surface such as to suspendingly hold a cassette inserted into any one of said series of pockets;

wherein said flexible sheet is a single integral sheet of fabric, said sheet of fabric being foldable to form said series of pockets and being stitchable to define the vertical edges of each of said pockets;

wherein said series of pockets linearly extend along said first surface;

in which said sheen of fabric is a rectangular in shape and when multi-folded includes an integral back piece forming said sheet rear surface, an integral inwardly-facing front piece of said pockets, an integral outwardly-facing front piece of said pockets and an integral front outwardly-facing piece above said pockets forming said sheet front surface; and

wherein the upper and lower edges of said sheet of fabric are stitched together at an upper top edge of said holder and at the vertical side edges of each of said pockets.

2. The holder of claim 1 in which said fastener first element is attached to said rear surface by the stitching together of the upper and lower edges of the sheet of fabric.

3. The holder of claim 1 in which a portion of said sheet of fabric is additionally folded to form a second pocket between a first pocket and said integral front outwardly-facing piece, such that a pair of vertically-oriented pockets are provided.

4. The holder of claim 1 in which each of the integral pieces of the folded sheet of fabric are stitched vertically between said vertical side edges such that at least one pair of side-by-side-oriented pockets are provided.

5. The holder of claim 1 in which the pieces are folded in seriatim.