FOLDING COIN PURSE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME
This method of making a folding coin purse involves forming a first pocket and a second pocket on a layer of rectangular material. A peripheral border is biased into an upstanding position. The peripheral border frames an access opening between the first pocket and the second pocket. A second half of the body folds over a first half of the body to close the access opening.
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/131,172 filed on May 17, 2005 which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/761,506 filed on Jan. 21, 2004.
FIELD OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention relates to a folding coin purse, which can be accommodated in a pocket, and a method of making the same.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONU.S. Pat. No. 2,368,687 (Stanley 1945) is an example of a folding coin purse. The Stanley coin purse consists of an inner flat layer and an outer flat layer of material peripherally stitched to each other. An open access window is provided in one half of the inner flat layer, leaving a loose narrow peripheral margin. The open access window allows the user to view coins within the coin purse and it has a tab to pull up with another hand to lift the end wall up when shuffling coins. The peripheral margin confines the coins. The coin purse folds in half, over the access window, to assume a closed position.
Japanese Patent application 2000357237 (Kojima 2000) similarly discloses a folding coin purse with an inner layer and an outer layer. The inner layer has two “U” shaped peripheral margins arranged in end to end relation, with a transparent material closing in the “U” shape of one half to form a transparent pocket. There is a gap between the “U” shaped peripheral margins, which facilitates the coin purse folding in half. The Kojima patent mentions fixed walls, which means that they are not collapsible.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention discloses an alternative construction for a folding coin purse with collapsible walls.
According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of making a folding coin purse with four collapsible walls. A first step involves providing a layer of pliable rectangular material having a first end peripheral edge, a second end peripheral edge, a first side peripheral edge and a second side peripheral edge. A second step involves folding the first end peripheral edge over and securing the first end peripheral edge to the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge to form a first pocket with wide side seams. A third step involves folding the second end peripheral edge over and securing the second end peripheral edge to the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge, to form a second pocket with wide side seams. A fourth step involves turning the first pocket and the second pocket inside out. This forms a body with a first inside out pocket as a first end wall, a second inside out pocket as a second end wall and a narrow peripheral border including two side walls, which is created by the side seams and has been biased into an upstanding position by the turning of the first pocket and the second pocket inside out. The peripheral border frames an access opening between the first inverted pocket and the second inverted pocket. A fifth step involves folding a second half of the body over a first half of the body to close the access opening.
In the prior art, an inner layer and an outer layer were secured together about a peripheral edge. This maintained the peripheral border in a relatively flat orientation. With the folding coin purse, as described above, the peripheral border is biased into an upstanding position by the turning of the first pocket and the second pocket inside out. This results in a much fuller peripheral border, which is better adapted to confine coins. The border is so much superior to the prior art, that one-handed operation of the coin purse is made possible.
According to another aspect of the present invention there is also provided an alternative or second method of making a folding coin purse with four collapsible walls. A first step involves providing a layer of pliable rectangular material having a first end peripheral edge, a second end peripheral edge, a first side peripheral edge and a second side peripheral edge. A second step involves curling over each of the first end peripheral edge, the second end peripheral edge, the first side peripheral edge, the second side peripheral edge. The first end peripheral edge is secured to both of the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge. The second end peripheral edge is secured to both of the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge. This forms a body with a narrow peripheral border with a first end wall, a second end wall and two side walls, which frames an access opening. A third step involves folding a second half of the body over a first half of the body to close the access opening.
A functioning folding coin purse can be obtained by following either of the two methods described above. A Purse can also be made with one method of walls in one end and another method of walls in the other end of purse. Whether made by the first method or the second method, additional features can be added to further improve performance as will hereinafter be further described.
Even more beneficial results may be obtained by taking a further step of securing a coin confining panel across the peripheral border to form a pocket on the first half of the body. This coin-confining panel can take various forms. It is preferred that a mesh panel, or a transparent plastic panel, be used. Beneficial results have been obtained through the use of a fiberglass mesh commonly used for screen doors and windows, although the mesh could be made out of plastic, nylon or any other materials which can be made to have some flexibility, but retain sufficient stiffness to contain the coins, when the coin purse is folded into a closed position.
Even more beneficial results may be obtained by having flat or curved plastic coin confining stiffeners attached inside the side walls on the second half purse opposite to the coin panel. The stiffeners serve as leverage to hold back the coins when the purse is closed, which is also more convenient for one hand operation because it allows weaker fasteners to be used to open the purse. A plastic stiffener curved upward and secured inside the end wall on the second half of the purse keeps the opposite ends of the purse closer together, when the purse is closed with fasteners engaged and also retains the coins when shuffling them. Also stiffeners of various materials may be attached to side walls of the first half of the purse, from near the fold line and on, if purse side walls buckle when closing purse due to certain materials. A transparent panel, if used for a coin panel, may serve as a stiffener to the first half purse side walls.
Even more beneficial results may be obtained by taking a further step of having a fully open purse by attaching reinforcing coin confining angled plastic stiffeners to the peripheral border along the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge spaced from the fold on each of the first half and the second half of the body. The stiffeners improve the ability of the material to confine the coins, when the coin purse is in a closed position and when being moved to an open position.
Even more beneficial results may be obtained by taking a further step of attaching a first fastener to the peripheral border along the first end peripheral edge and a second fastener to the peripheral border along the second end peripheral edge. The first fastener and the second fastener engage to maintain the body in a folded condition. The fasteners can take any number of forms: such as mating tape fasteners or mating snap fasteners.
Even more beneficial results may be obtained by taking a further step of securing a “U” shaped spring along the peripheral border in the first half of the purse, the second half of the purse or both halves of the purse, if needed for fully open purse. The spring biases the peripheral border into an upright orientation.
Even more beneficial results may be obtained by taking a further step of securing elastic materials or silicon etc. in tension, where one end of the elastic in tension is secured to any purse wall desired to have lift and the other end of the elastic rests on the purse body. The elastic or silicon material may be applied or sprayed on, as well, which is an alternative way of biasing the peripheral border into an upright orientation.
To make the purse just by sewing the problem is if the transparent material is sewn into the side walls that can not be sewn to the end wall or vice versa, so to reduce costs, it would be necessary to have a rather thin flat U shaped plastics which could be called U shape with transparent material sewn on to it, the mid of U shape then is sewn to the coin panel end wall and the U shape ends may be sewn to the side walls.
If the transparent material secured to the U shape is of a larger size, then it would allow to sew the side walls more along the U shape sides to avoid the side walls from sliding away from the U shape, when the purse is over loaded with coins and is compressed to engage the fasteners, previously there was access to take coins throughout the length of purse now there would be just more access to take coins through out the length of purse.
There is an advantage with these purses since the transparent material can be at a greater distance from the purses fold line because it can fold before the fold line who carry less coins and it can fold past the fold line who carry a lot of coins that is why the first tape fastener is made longer to serve the latter purpose, if it is desired some paper may be taped over a tape fastener to make it weaker. The purse is thin and convenient for all.
The end wall stiffener curved like a spoon which could hold some water keeps the opposite purse corners closer together when purse is closed, an other way to get the same result which works with some purse material is when the lower portion of a flat stiffener is partially rounded which is secured beyond the wend wall fold line it tends to keep the end walls forward also, the sides of these stiffeners are angled so that when the coins hit the end wall it raises the end wall and the side walls too.
These and other features of the invention will become more apparent from the following description in which reference is made to the appended drawings, the drawings are for the purpose of illustration only and are not intended to in any way limit the scope of the invention to the particular embodiment or embodiments shown, wherein:
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Body 12 may be made from various materials, such as: vinyl, vinyl reinforced with cloth, leather, or other cloth, or a new material somewhat like duct tape. There are various means which may be used to secure first end peripheral edge 14 to first side peripheral edge 18 and second side peripheral edge 20 and second end peripheral edge 16 to first side peripheral edge 18 and second side peripheral edge 20 and including other attachments, such as by staples, taping, sewing, stitching, rivets, heat, glue and the like. Referring to
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Reinforcing coin confining stiffeners may be attached to peripheral border 22 along first side peripheral edge 18 and second side peripheral edge 20, spaced from fold line 33 on each of first half 32 and second half 34 of body 12. Stiffeners 43 may be secured in a variety of different ways. Referring to
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In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be one and only one of the elements.
It will be apparent to one skilled in the art that modifications may be made to the illustrated embodiment without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter defined in the Claims.
Claims
1. A method of making a folding coin purse, comprising the steps of:
- providing a layer of pliable rectangular material having a first end peripheral edge, a second end peripheral edge, a first side peripheral edge and a second side peripheral edge;
- folding the first end peripheral edge over and securing the first end peripheral edge to the layer of pliable rectangular material with seams spaced from the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge to form a first pocket;
- folding the second end peripheral edge over and securing the second end peripheral edge to the layer of pliable rectangular material with seams spaced from the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge, to form a second pocket;
- turning the first pocket and the second pocket inside out, thereby forming a body with a first inside out pocket, a second inside out pocket and a narrow peripheral border biased into an upstanding position by the turning of the first pocket and the second pocket inside out, the peripheral border framing an access opening between the first inverted pocket and the second inverted pocket, the size of the peripheral border being determined by the width of the seams; and
- folding a second half of the body over a first half of the body along a fold line to close the access opening.
2. The method as defined in claim 1, the first pocket having a viewing window covered by a substrate that confines coins within the first pocket while enabling the contents of the first pocket to be viewed.
3. The method as defined in claim 1, having stiffeners attached to the peripheral border on the second half of the body which provide leverage to hold coins better when the purse is closed.
4. The method as defined in claim 1, including a further step of attaching reinforcing coin confining stiffeners to the peripheral border along the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge, spaced from the fold line on each of the first half and the second half of the body.
5. The method as defined in claim 1, including a further step of attaching a first fastener to the first half of the body and a second fastener to the second half of the body, whereby the first fastener and the second fastener engage to maintain the body in a folded condition.
6. The method as defined in claim 1, including a further step of securing a “U” shaped spring along the peripheral border in at least one of the first half or the second half of the purse, whereby the spring biases the peripheral border into an upright orientation.
7. The method as defined in claim 1, including a further step of securing elastic material in tension where the first end peripheral edge is secured to the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge and where the second end peripheral edge is secured the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge, whereby the elastic material biases the peripheral border into an upright orientation.
8. The method as defined in claim 1, including a further step of securing a “T” shaped stiffener to the body to make the body more rigid, a stem of the “T” shaped stiffener being secured to the bottom of the purse, with a top of the “T” shaped stiffener engaging one of the end walls.
9. The method as defined in claim 1, including a further step of securing an elastic material between end walls of the body, such that a key positioned between the elastic material and the body is held in position by the elastic properties of the elastic material.
10. The method as defined in claim 1, including a further step of having the seams at one of an angle or curve and removing any unnecessary material that would interfere with the inverting of the pockets.
11. The method as defined in claim 1, including securing with one of sewing, stitching, gluing, taping riveting, heat sealing or stapling.
12. The method as defined in claim 1, the first pocket being made larger than the second pocket, a transparent covering substrate being placed across a portion of the access opening, so that coins are visible within the first pocket after the first pocket is inverted.
13. A folding coin purse comprising:
- a body made from a layer of pliable rectangular material having a first end peripheral edge, a second end peripheral edge, a first side peripheral edge and a second side peripheral edge, the first end peripheral edge being folded over and secured to the layer of pliable rectangular material with seams spaced in from the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge to form a first pocket, the second end peripheral edge being folded over and secured to layer of pliable rectangular material with seams spaced in from the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge, to form a second pocket;
- the first pocket and the second pocket being turned inside out to form a narrow peripheral border biased into an upstanding position by the turning of the first pocket and the second pocket inside out, the peripheral border framing an access opening between the first inverted pocket and the second inverted pocket, the size of the peripheral border being determined by the width of the seams; and
- a second half of the body being folded over a first half of the body along a fold line to close the access opening.
14. A method of making a folding coin purse, comprising the steps of:
- providing a layer of pliable rectangular material having a first end peripheral edge, a second end peripheral edge, a first side peripheral edge and a second side peripheral edge;
- curling over each of the first end peripheral edge, the second end peripheral edge, the first side peripheral edge, the second side peripheral edge and securing the first end peripheral edge to both of the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge and securing the second end peripheral edge to both of the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge, thereby forming a body with a narrow peripheral border which frames an access opening; and
- folding a second half of the body over a first half of the body along a fold line to close the access opening.
15. The method as defined in claim 14, including a step of securing a coin confining panel across the peripheral border to form a pocket on the first half of the body, the coin confining panel being one of mesh or transparent plastic so that coins can be viewed through the coin confining panel.
16. The method as defined in claim 14, having stiffeners attached to the peripheral border on the second ha f of the body which provide leverage to hold coins better when the purse is closed.
17. The method as defined in claim 14, including a further step of attaching reinforcing coin confining stiffeners to the peripheral border along the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge, spaced from the fold line on each of the first half and the second half of the body.
18. The method as defined in claim 14, including a further step of attaching a first fastener to the first half of the body a second fastener to the second half of the body, whereby the first fastener and the second fastener engaging maintain the body in a folded condition.
19. The method as defined in claim 14, including a further step of securing a “U” shaped spring along the peripheral border in one of the first half or the second half of the purse, whereby the spring biases the peripheral border into an upright orientation.
20. The method as defined in claim 14, including a further step of securing elastic material in tension where the first end peripheral edge is secured to the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge and where the second end peripheral edge is secured the first side peripheral edge and the second side peripheral edge, whereby the elastic material biases the peripheral border into an upright orientation.
21. The method as defined in claim 14, including a further step of having a U-shaped plastic insert with a transparent plastic underneath and hinged to the mid section of U-shape, or a more durable material like upholstery or elastic as sewn for clothing is used for hinging the transparent material to the mid second of U-shape so that when transparent plastic is moved, the transparent plastic opens access to facilitate taking coins from the coin panel when the U-shaped insert is secured to the first half purse.
22. The methods as defined in claim 14, including a further step of securing a plastic stiffener in second end wall which is one of curved like a spoon, flat and curves upward if its bottom is curved outward and is secured past the end wall fold line partly into purse body it keeps the end wall corners forward to keep the corners of the purse closer together when closed, it also holds the coins and if the stiffener is pressed down it puts the side wall stiffeners with side walls down to close the purse.
23. The method as defined in claim 14, including a further step of securing the end wall to side walls by sewing through one of the walls of the purse and the corners of purse.
24. The method as defined in claim 14, including a further step of having a plastic stiffeners where transparent material is sewn along on one half side and is sewn along or sewn in parts on the other half side to any walls of the purse.
Type: Application
Filed: Nov 13, 2007
Publication Date: Jun 5, 2008
Inventor: Joseph Lee BOYARSKI (Edmonton)
Application Number: 11/939,259
International Classification: A45C 1/00 (20060101); B65D 30/22 (20060101); B65D 33/04 (20060101);