Patents Assigned to Amity Leather Products
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Patent number: 5480605Abstract: An apparatus and method for manufacturing leather coin pouches. The method provides for wetting a leather assembly comprising a substantially flat, flexible leather cover laminated to a substantially flat, more rigid centerpiece, to soften the leather which facilitates the eventual forming of the leather. The method further comprises creasing the leather in a creasing die. After a preforming step designed to foldedly bias the leather assembly toward forming as desired, the leather assembly is formed into a foldedly raised leather assembly with an overlapping flap spiral closure. Finally, while its formed shape is retained, the leather assembly is dried.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1994Date of Patent: January 2, 1996Assignee: Amity Leather Products CompanyInventors: Peter L. Skaalen, Jr., Thomas W. Papez, Roy A. Scheunemann
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Patent number: 5353479Abstract: A clip carrier for supporting a suspender clip comprising double ply flexible material having a pocket between the plies and an opening through one of the plies into the pocket. The opening has a first portion that is utilized to insert the suspender clip into the pocket, and a second portion that is utilized to removably secure the suspender clip within the pocket. The other ply of the flexible material conceals the suspender clip.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1993Date of Patent: October 11, 1994Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.Inventor: Cyril Lucier
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Patent number: 5263523Abstract: The present invention is directed to a multi-card element for attachment to a wallet. The multi-card element includes a generally rectangular front wall and a generally rectangular back wall of the same width as the front wall. The front wall and back wall are secured on at least their side edges to form an enclosure. The front wall has a plurality of parallel and spaced apart slits cut therein for reception of a card. A pocket liner is disposed within the enclosure formed by the front wall and the back wall. The pocket liner comprises an elongated generally rectangular back member having a width less than the width of the front and back walls. The back member is secured at its top edge within the enclosure. A plurality of generally rectangular card supporting members is affixed at their lower edge to the back member.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1992Date of Patent: November 23, 1993Assignee: Amity Leather Products CompanyInventor: Roy Scheunemann
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Patent number: 4974652Abstract: An expanding credit card insert for holding cards and the like includes a pair of endwalls flexibly joined at their bottom edges to form a hinged seam. Pleated sidewalls extend between the endwalls, each sidewall pleat including a sidewall panel. At least one leg extends to the seam from each sidewall at a mid portion thereof, so as to space portions of the bottom edges of said sidewall panels on either side of said leg, from said seam.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1989Date of Patent: December 4, 1990Assignee: Amity Leather Products CompanyInventor: Paul Lemler
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Patent number: 4966260Abstract: A travel bag has a plurality of internal compartments and can be reformed to provide different configurations for those compartments. In one configuration, four compartments are arranged side-by-side, with the pairs of compartments being mirror images of one another. The inner compartments enclose cavities which are pointed at their upper and bottom ends, while the outer compartments are expanded to have a rectangular cross-sectional configuration. Dart-like seams formed at corners of the outer expanded compartments maintain the rectangular cross-sectional configuration. The opposing compartment pairs are joined together by upper and lower wall portions forming a hinged connection therebetween. A first sliding fastener provides access to both inner compartments, while second and third sliding fasteners provide access to respective outer compartments. The three sliding fasteners are arranged parallel to each other so as to be upwardly facing.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1989Date of Patent: October 30, 1990Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.Inventor: Raymond W. Young
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Patent number: 4925038Abstract: Disclosed is a display fixture for displaying and dispensing a plurality of product units. The display fixture includes a plurality of shelf-like tiers extending between a pair of opposed sidewalls. Each tier consists of a side-by side arrangement of tray-like carriers. The carriers are removable from the tier for loading at a tabletop level, if desired. The carriers each define a plurality of levels, with each level holding a serial succession of product units. Each level has a forward dispensing position through which product units of the level may be withdrawn, so as to be extracted from the carrier. The carriers of the tiers are downwardly inclined at their forward ends, to bias the product units of a given level in a forward direction. Since the rearward end of the display fixture may be enclosed, extraction of the product units from the display fixture must be carried out through the forward end of the fixture.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1988Date of Patent: May 15, 1990Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.Inventor: Dennis A. Gajewski
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Patent number: 4921027Abstract: The present invention provides a billfold, wallet, or the like for carrying a plurality of cards, such as credit cards, in shingled and partially exposed relationship to one another whereby a desired card can be readily selected and withdrawn.The billfold has a pair of flexible walls which are sewn together to form an envelope-like opening. One of the walls has affixed thereto a multi-card liner. The liner includes a support member which has at least two vertical slits extending from a bottom edge to provide a downwardly extending tongue member. A plurality of card-receiving leaves is then provided. Each of the leaves has a tongue-receiving slit extending in a horizontal direction. The leaves are strung along the tongue of the support member in a vertically aligned, partially overlapping array to form the integral liner of the invention having a series of single edge overlying cavities arranged in shingled relationship for the reception of cards.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1989Date of Patent: May 1, 1990Assignee: Amity Leather Products CompanyInventor: Roy Scheunemann
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Patent number: 4832372Abstract: Disclosed is a portfolio comprising a body of sheet-like material having a central hinge line dividing the body into first and second covers. A foldable panel is hingeably attached to the first cover, and has a surface carrying a serial array of card-receiving pockets which are exposed to a user when the foldable panel is folded away from the first cover. In one embodiment, the portfolio includes an interior section forming a pocket with the first cover. The foldable panel divides the pocket into two chambers when disposed on either side of the foldable panel. In a second embodiment, the interior section comprises an integral extension of the foldable panel being joined thereto by an interior hinge line.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1988Date of Patent: May 23, 1989Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.Inventor: Raymond W. Young
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Patent number: 4825922Abstract: A security device which includes a single flexible, resilient tab extending from a wallet, billfold or the like at an acute angle for preventing undetected removal of the article from a pocket. The tab is preferably configured so that it can be temporarily depressed by a person's finger to facilitate legitimate removal of the associated article by the owner.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1988Date of Patent: May 2, 1989Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.Inventor: Thomas J. Rolfs
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Patent number: 4821853Abstract: A travel bag has a plurality of internal compartments and can be reformed to provide different configurations for those compartments. In one configuration, four compartments are arranged side-by-side, with the pairs of compartments being mirror images of one another. The inner compartments enclose cavities which are pointed at their upper and bottom ends, while the outer compartments are expanded to have a rectangular cross-sectional configuration. Dart-like seams formed at corners of the outer expanded compartments maintain the rectangular cross-sectional configuration. The opposing compartment pairs are joined together by upper and lower wall portions forming a hinged connection therebetween. A first sliding fastener provides access to both inner compartments, while second and third sliding fasteners provide access to respective outer compartments. The three sliding fasteners are arranged parallel to each other so as to be upwardly facing.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1987Date of Patent: April 18, 1989Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.Inventor: Raymond W. Young
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Patent number: D292645Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 1985Date of Patent: November 10, 1987Assignee: Amity Leather ProductsInventor: Raymond W. Young
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Patent number: D301802Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1987Date of Patent: June 27, 1989Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.Inventor: Raymond W. Young
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Patent number: D307668Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1987Date of Patent: May 8, 1990Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.Inventor: Raymond W. Young
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Patent number: D312533Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1987Date of Patent: December 4, 1990Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.Inventor: Thomas J. Rolfs
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Patent number: D314587Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1988Date of Patent: February 12, 1991Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.Inventor: Raymond W. Young
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Patent number: D322628Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1988Date of Patent: December 24, 1991Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.Inventor: Raymond W. Young
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Patent number: D325124Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1989Date of Patent: April 7, 1992Assignee: Amity Leather Products Co.Inventor: Raymond W. Young
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Patent number: D343951Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1993Date of Patent: February 8, 1994Assignee: Amity Leather Products CompanyInventors: Cindy Petty, Suzanne L. Smith, Richard D. Gagan, Eric Lund
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Patent number: D355767Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1993Date of Patent: February 28, 1995Assignee: Amity Leather ProductsInventor: Mikel D. Cobb
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Patent number: D366356Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1994Date of Patent: January 23, 1996Assignee: Amity Leather Products CompanyInventor: Ronald A. Theis