Currency bill billfold file

A billfold file for receiving currency bills, said file being for carrying inside a billfold for quick, easy and accurate storage and removal of bills, said file comprising:

• a master plate, said master plate being formed of semi-rigid bendable material of sufficient rigidity as to maintain itself upright when in a billfold during times when said billfold is held with its open side upward containing said master plate, said master plate being a thin sheet of material, left and right retainers attached to said master plate and protruding from said master plate and each disposed offset from said master plate, said left and right retainers respectively having left and right retainer edges extending transversely to said elongation of said master plate, and a plurality of substantially parallel panels of flexible material, said panels having a central bill-engaging portion for engaging currency bills disposed between adjacent panels, said panels being sufficiently rigid as to tend to remain with their central bill-engaging portions disposed substantially in vertical planes respectively during times when a billfold containing said file is held unfolded with its open end upward, said bill-engaging portions of said panels each being of a size for totally receiving there against a conventional currency bill disposed in parallelism therewith, each of said panels having left and right positioning end portions disposed in parallelism with respective left and right end portions of said bill engaging portions thereof, each of said panels having a left end and a right end inter-connection portion respectively interconnecting the said bill engaging portion with the left and right positioning end portion thereof, said positioning end portions being disposed on the master plate side of said off-set retainers respectively, said inter-connecting portions extending around said retainer edges respectively, said panels each being sufficiently taut between its two inter-connecting portions and said panels each being formed of sufficiently rigid material that the inter-connecting portions of each panel in normal use each hold a position extending around the respective retainer edges thereof, the left and right interconnection portions of said panels being disposed at progressively greater distances from respective retainer edges, said panels being disposed one inside another with the space between the positioning end portion and the bill-engaging portion of each respective panel being greater than the equivalent spacing for any of the panels disposed inwardly thereof.