US1797114A - Cardcase - Google Patents

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March 17 1931. ADAMS 1,797,114

CARD CASE Filed Aug. 26, 1929 ,fibivzermdanw A iiorney Inventor Patented Mar. 17, 1931 UNHTED STATES HOMER F. ADAMS, OF GAS CITY, INDIANA CARDCASE Application filed August 26, 1929. Serial No. 388,381.

This invention relates to an automotive accessory, in the nature of a card case which is especially, but not necessarily adapted for holding a drivers permit, and license card,

. or the like.

More specifically stated, I have evolved and produced a simple and inexpensive article of this class which is made to enable it to be attached to a key-ring, whereby to permit proper and ready identification of the keys in the event that they become misplaced or lost, and to at the same time, render the card, identification tag, or the like readily accessible, from time to time.

Briefly, the invention comprises an especially constructed miniature casing or sheath, and a removable insert therein, constructed as a holder for the article to be contained in the case.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view.

Fig. 3 is a slightly enlarged vertical or longitudinal sectional view.

Fig. 4 is a horizontal section, and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the removable insert.

In the drawings, the reference character 6 designates a casing, which is formed of a single sheet of metal, bent to form a substantially rectangular elongated sheath. It includes a back wall 7 having an inturned a bottom as at 8 and having its longitudinal edges bent around and upon themselves to form the sections 9 and 10 of the front wall.

At the top, is an extension 11 having an opening 12 for passing of the key-ring (not shown). Then, a spur is indented or formed as at 13 to form resilient keeper or retaining means for the removable insert 14. The insert is in the nature of a substantially rectangular open frame'having a substantially ovate top piece 15, parallel arms 16 and 17, and inturned overlapping ends 18 and 19, forming an expansible frame.

The card, identification tag, or the like, is placed in the frame, and then slipped down into the casing and engaged beneath the keeper means 13 as seen in Fig. 3.

The reference character 20 designates a V-shaped notch in the front, which enables the finger nail to be engaged beneath the top piece 15 to allow the holder to be readily extracted.

The improved article is of such exceeding simplicity, in design and construction, as to enable the reader to obtain a clear understanding of the purpose, construction, features and advantages, from the foregoing description. Therefore, a more lengthy description is regarded as unnecessary.

Minor changes in shape,size,and rearrangements of details, may be resorted to within the scope of the attached claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is As a new product of manufacture, a card holder of the type described comprising a flat, substantially rectangular, elongated receptacle formed from a single sheet of metal bent upon itself to form a flat back plate, curved side walls, and a pair of plates approximately meeting at a point equally distantfrom the side walls and constituting a front wall, an upward extension on the upper edge of the rear wall apertured for receiving a key ring, and a downward extension on the lower edge of the rear wall forwardly bent to form a bottom for the receptacle, and a removable metal card frame comprising a top cross member formed to fit closely with the upper portion of the receptacle, a pair of side bars depending from the ends of the cross member, said bars being bent inwardly at right angles in superposed relation to form a bottom cross member, said frame adapted to receive and retain a card and to be placed into said receptacle, and a pressed out area on the upper portion of the back plate adapted to resiliently engage the top cross member for normally retaining said card frame within the receptacle.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

HOMER. F. ADAMS.

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