Patent ID: 6205622
Filing Date: 2001-03-27
Classification: A44C,A45C,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of securely holding paper currency or credit cards the paper currency or the credit cards having at least two opposite edges, comprising the steps of:providing a continuous expandable metal band with a decorative display surface comprised of a plurality of interconnected adjacent metal links which are capable of longitudinal movement with respect to each other;providing an outer surface and a reversible inner surface on the adjacent metal links,selecting whether the outer surface of the adjacent metal links or the reversible inner surface of the adjacent metal links is to be the display surface,rotating the adjacent metal links 180.degree. as necessary to orient the metal links with the outer surface or the reversible inner surface as the display surface,applying a force for longitudinally displacing the adjacent metal links thereby expanding the band radially outward;releasing the force for contracting the displaced links around the paper currency or the credit cards to be held; andencircling the at least two opposite edges of the paper currency or the credit cards with the expandable band for securely holding the paper currency or the credit cards.