Pocket organizer
OwnerHenry Detjeinventor
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Abstract
A keyholder adapted for use as an addition to a garment has a body formed from a backing plate with a retainer plate attached at an acute angle to form a V-shaped trough. Key loop openings in the retainer plate have a trapezoidal slot opening at its longer base to the free edge of the retainer plate, and the short base opens to a circular aperture. The backing plate is provided with a cavity or hole positioned to cooperate with the circular aperture in retaining a spherical key loop therebetween. The sphere is relatively large, such as one-quarter inch or more, so that it provides a caming surface that allows removal or insertion of the sphere in the keyholder body with moderate forces.
Claims6
A pocket organizer comprising:
- (a) a body having a backing plate and a retainer plate joined at an acute angle to form a resilient V-shaped trough wherein the retainer plate has a free edge opposite from the apex of the trough;
- (b) said retainer plate having at least one key loop opening formed therein having a trapezoidal slot portion and a circular aperture portion, the slot portion having a relatively longer opening at said free edge and having a relatively shorter opening into said circular portion with substantially smooth side edges convergently connecting the free edge to the circular portion, the circular portion having a first predetermined diameter;
- (c) said backing plate having a circular cavity therein of second predetermined diameter and positioned such that the normal axis thereto intersects the normal axis of said circular aperture portion;
- (d) means for attaching said body to another object;
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- (e) a key loop having a sphere of at least one-quarter inch diameter and larger than said first and second predetermined diameters, suitably sized to be engaged for retention in and between said circular aperture and said cavity, and having key attaching means connected to the sphere said sphere being retained between the backing plate and retainer plate solely by engagement in said cavity and aperture and suitably sized to pass through said slot portion with resilient flexing of the V-shaped trough, the key attaching means being moveable through substantial arcs both in axial and transverse planes with respect to the V-shaped trough by pivoting of the sphere while engaged in the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.