Pouch-like container in particular billfold and the like
AssigneeEsquire-Lederwaren Rupp & Ricker GmbH
InventorEugen Buechele
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Abstract
A billfold, pocketbook, wallet or the like, has insertion compartments that are arranged in a staggered partially overlapping manner one above the other, and that are intended for receiving credit cards and the like through an insertion and removal opening of the respective compartment. The direction for pushing cards into and removing cards from the insertion compartments is transverse to the main axis of the staggering of the compartments and preferably is oriented inwardly perpendicular to a folding axis of the wallet. The credit cards are thereby prevented from inadvertently falling out of the compartments.
Claims20
A wallet for storing at least currency notes and credit cards, comprising:
- a wallet body including a first body portion and a second body portion foldably joined to each other along a folding axis, allowing said first and second body portions to be selectively folded closed and opened relative to each other about said folding axis;
- a currency note compartment that is dimensioned to receive currency notes therein, that extends longitudinally along said first body portion and said second body portion across said folding axis, and that is open along an open longitudinal edge thereof running along a folded side edge of said first and second body portions so as to allow insertion and removal of currency notes through said open longitudinal edge;
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- a plurality of card compartments that each respectively have the same size dimensioned to receive at least one credit card therein, and that are arranged on a surface of said first body portion facing said second body portion when said first and second body portions are folded closed relative to each other about said folding axis;
- wherein:
- said card compartments each respectively comprise four sides including a closed fixed side, two mutually opposite closed sides, and an open insertion side opposite said closed fixed side, whereby a credit card may be inserted into and removed from said respective card compartment through said open insertion side in only one card insertion and removal direction parallel to said mutually opposite closed sides;
- said closed fixed side of each said card compartment is fixedly secured to said first body portion, and said mutually opposite closed sides of each said card compartment are fixedly secured to at least one of said first body portion and an adjacent one of said card compartments so that said card compartments are fixed relative to one another and relative to said first body portion;
- said card compartments are arranged partially overlapping one another and staggered relative to one another in a partially overlapping staggered row of said compartments extending in a staggering direction;
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- said card insertion and removal direction is oriented transversely relative to said staggering direction.
A container for storing at least one of currency, papers, and objects having a size and a format of a credit card, said container having plural insertion compartments that each respectively have the same size and the same rectangular format adapted to receive therein a respective object having the size and the format of a credit card, wherein:
- said insertion compartments are arranged to partially overlap one another and to be respectively staggered in an overlapping row along an overlapping row direction;
- said rectangular format of each said insertion compartment has two mutually opposite longer closed sides, one shorter closed side, and one shorter open side opposite said shorter closed side;
- each respective one of said insertion compartments respectively has a single opening on said one shorter open side thereof through which the respective object can be pushed into or pulled out of said respective insertion compartment in a single object insertion and removal direction parallel to said two longer closed sides;
- each said insertion compartment is fixedly secured relative to an adjacent one of said insertion compartments along said one shorter closed side and said two mutually opposite longer closed sides;
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- said object insertion and removal direction is oriented transversely relative to said overlapping row direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.