Security wallet
AssigneeBrigade Quartermasters, Ltd.
InventorGeorge Williams
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Abstract
A foldable wallet intended to be secured on or about the user's person, by means of a cord. The wallet is made of various panels peripherally secured to each other, and defining a number of separate pockets for receiving and storing articles such as passports, maps, paper money, and coins, as well as relatively narrow elongate articles such as pens, penlights, or the like. The mouths of the pockets are transverse to the longitudinal dimension of the wallet, so that the pocket mouths face upwardly to contain articles within the pockets as the wallet is carried by its cord. The wallet folds asymmetrically on its length so that a part of the longer portion remains uncovered, and a pocket may be on the uncovered portion for access without opening the wallet.
Claims13
A foldable security wallet, comprising:
- first flat panel means having a first side facing an outer side of the wallet and an inside surface facing an inner side of the wallet, and having a longitudinal dimension extending substantially the length of the wallet;
- second flat panel means having peripheral edges overlying and peripherally secured to said inside surface of said first panel means to define a first article-receiving pocket;
- said second panel means extending from one end of said first panel means to a terminal edge at an asymmetrical location along said longitudinal dimension and dividing the first panel means into a shorter portion and a longer portion, said terminal edge extending across the width of said first panel means and being unattached to said inside surface of said first panel means so as to form the mouth of said pocket, whereby the length of said first pocket is parallel to the longitudinal dimension of said first panel means;
- means defining a fold region extending laterally across said first panel means adjacent said mouth of the pocket, the shorter portion of said first panel means being selectably foldable to overlay the longer portion of the first panel means and thus to overlay said terminal edge of said second panel means, so as to selectably close the mouth of said first pocket;
- third flat panel means having peripheral edges overlying said second panel means to define a second pocket and extending in length susbstantially less than the longitudinal extent of the longer portion of said first panel means, so that the bottom end of the third panel means is spaced inwardly from said one end of the first panel means,
- said third panel means having an unsecured terminal edge extending across the width of said first panel means to form the mouth of said second pocket;
- said terminal edges of said second and third panel means being substantially in mutual alignment, so that the mouths of said first and second pockets are mutually contiguous;
- fourth flat panel means having peripheral edges overlying said second panel means between the bottom end of said third panel means and said one end of the first panel means, so as to define a third pocket on said inner side of the wallet;
- said fourth panel means having an unattached terminal edge extending across the width of said first panel means adjacent said bottom end of said third panel means to form the mouth of said third pocket;
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- said peripheral edges of each panel means being secured to confronting peripheral edges of the adjacent panel means,
- whereby the security wallet presents a substantially smooth and flat configuration whether folded or unfolded.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.