Patent ID: 6668883
Filing Date: 2003-12-30
Classification: A45C

Abstract:
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; and 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; and said card insertion and removal direction is oriented transversely relative to said staggering direction.