US 4,729,417 A · Pop up change purse

Abstract

A change purse is provided with a suspension device for attaching the purse within the mouth of a ladies purse, below the closure zipper thereof, the suspension device being connected with the closure zipper for actuation thereby as the zipper is opened, to move the change purse in upwardly presented relation above the closure zipper. The arrangement is particularly suited to two handed operation by the user, namely, the holding of the ladies purse in one hand and the manipulation of the zipper, the presentation of the change purse and accessing into the change purse, with the other hand. The arrangement also contemplates the incorporation with the change purse of articles requiring rapid or automatic presentation, such as rapid access to nitroglycerine medication by a heart patient; rapid access to charge cards by a user, the accessing of keys or eye glasses in their cases or automatic presentation to alert a stranger of a medic-alert tag or other form of emergency identification. The invention also is susceptible of use with a brief case, wherein the re-orientation displacement takes place as a consequence of frictional forces acting on the inserted container, from contact made with the inner wall surface of the containing, soft sided hand luggage within which the inserted container is lodged.

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Dependent claims

In a change purse having a container for the elective insertion and removal of articles therefrom, said change purse being useable in co-operation and within a hand purse, said container having a pair of opposing sides in joined relation about the edges thereof to form the container and bounded by an elongated mouth joinable in closing relation therebetween, the improvement comprising suspension means attached to an edge portion of the change purse adjacent and below the mouth;

said suspension means including a tilt link for attachment, in use, by one end of the link to the zipper draw of said hand purse, to locate said change purse in oriented relation within a compartment of said hand purse, beneath the zipper thereof, to enable one handed operation of said zipper in opening manipulation of said zipper draw to open said hand purse compartment;
wherein said tilt link displaces said change purse in upward tilting relation relative to said zipper draw, to present said change purse oriented in stabilized, substantially level, raised relation within said hand purse compartment, for one handed access to the contents of the change purse.

In combination, a suspension device and an insert container selected from the group comprising change purses, key containers, glass cases and the like, for individual transport within soft sided hand luggage such as brief cases, hand purses and the like, having a zipper closure extending across a compartment of said hand luggage, said zipper closure including an actuator therefor having a draw portion;

said insert container comprising an enclosure casing having an access opening for the contents thereof;
said suspension device being of predetermined length and having first attachment means for the attachment thereof to a selected said insert container at a point along one side thereof a predetermined distance from a selected end of the insert container, second attachment means at the end of said suspension device opposite said first attachment means, for releasably attaching said insert container to said zipper closure draw portion;
whereby, in use, said insert container is releasably secured to said zipper draw portion by way of said suspension device, to hang therebeneath within a compartment of said hand luggage, and to pivot upwardly in re-oriented upward facing presentation to a position adjacent said closure upon displacement of said zipper closure in an opening direction.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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