US1537446A - Card tray for playing cards and the like - Google Patents

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C. E. ALBERT CARD TRAY FOR PLAYING CARD 5 AND THE LIKE Filed March '7, 1925 May 12, 1925.

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CLIFFGRD E. ALBERT, OE CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TU THE FNITED STATES PLAY- ING CARD COIVIPANY, OF NORWOOD, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

CARD TRAY FOR PLAYING CARDS AND THE LIKE Application filed. March 7, 1925.v Serial No. 13,897.

J 'o all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Gnrrronn E. ALBERT, 1' citizen of the United States of America, and

a resident of Cincinnati, inthe county of.

Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements ina Card- T ray for Playing Cards and the like, of which the following is a. specification.

This invention relates to card holders for playing cards and hasfor an object the provision of novel and useful n'iea-ns for holding groups or hands t cards, which havebeen previously shuflled and dealt in their respec-. tive groups or hands ready for subsequent use by players. I

Another object is tov provide a: device of this character which precludes accidental confusion of the separated groups or hands of cards.

Another object is to provide a device of this kind in which the cards of a given. group or hand are yieldingly held against accidental sliding or spilling out of the tray.

Another object is to provide a device of this type which is adapted to free insertion d removal of the cards from the tray. Another object is to provide a device of this kind which is foldable. into a compact form and may be inserted in; the carrying case which will fit the pocket.

These and other objects are attained by the means described herein. and disclosed in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a hinged card tray of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal cross sectional view taken on line 22 of Fig. 1.

F 3 is a perspective view of a cover case for the hinged foldable tray shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4; is a view similar to that of Fig. 2 and disclosing another form of the device of my invention.

Fig. is a view similar to that of Fig. 2 and showing a modification.

Fig. 6 is a view similar to that of Fig. 2 and showing another modification.

T he card tray comprises a pair of similar containers 8 hingedly mounted upon one another along one of their longitudinal edges 9. The containers 8 thus hingedly mounted may be folded one upon the other with their major faces 10 in abutment one with the other or may be spread out with their minor or narrow faces 11 in abutment one with the other. In this way the tray may be spread out flat upon: the. table before a player with all of the cards in the container readily accessible or the. containers may be folded one upon the other as described and inserted into a suitable carrying case such as 12 (see; Fig.

to provide a dust proof container for a) pack of cards. Each of the containers 8 being alike, at (lGSC'll'PUOII of one will suffice for both. The container 8 conrprises a. hollow rectangular body portionboundech by side provided with a resilient member 18.- which may take the form of a false wall which is secured adjacent the ends 14: and 15 of the; walls 10 of the container; false walls 18 are substantially longer than the normal depth of the compartments 1'5 so that when the end 19 of the resilient wall 18 is made; to coincide. withthe ends 14 or 15,. a bl-i ged or spring portion 18 will be disposed within the compartment 17. From. the foregoing it will be apparent that when a group or hand of cards such as 20 are in sorted in one of the compartments 17 that the resilient wall 18 will exert its pressure upon such group of cards and yieldingly bind them against the common longitudinal wall 13 of the compartment. It will be fur ther apparent from Fig. 2 that each compartment serves to independently retain a given group of cards inserted therein and that by providing suitable linger openings or notches 21 at the ends of the containers 8, a group of cards may be readily grasped with the fingers and slidably removed from the interior of the resilient wall 18. It should be noted that the bottoms 16 of the compartments 17 are somewhat spaced from the ends 1 1- and 15 of the container so as to provide sufficient space from which the (inger openings 21 may be cut.

As shown in Fig. 2 the resilient walls 18. bottoms 19 and the common longitud nal wall 13 are preferably formed of an in The resilient or tegral sheet or strip of material So that such sheet may be folded or creased and be secured to the inner faces of the walls 10 of the container 8 thereby roviding a structure which is comparative y inexpensive of manufacture and very simply and easily assembled. As shown in Fig. 4 the common wall 18 may comprise a pair of resilient members 22 in which case the equivalent of the walls 18, ends 16 and common wall 13 may comprise a pair of integral strips or sheets so that the common wall between the compartments may comprise the resilient means for holding the cards in their respective compartments. As shown in Fig. 5

' the strip may comprlse a single resilient wall 23 common to both of the compartments 17. As shown in Fig. 6, the common wall 24 of the compartments 17 comprises the resilient member and embraces a longer portion of the material and consequently is provided with a plurality of bulged or curved resilient portions which will exert a somewhat greater pressure upon the cards 20 in the compartments 17. The use and operation of the device is obvious and requires but little consideration. Vhen the tray is filled each of the four compartments may hold a group or hand of cards so that one tray will serve to hold a deck of cards in a shuflied and divided condition ready for being removed and handed to players. As has been previously mentioned the tray and its contents may be telescoped into the case 12 so that the device will occupy a minimum of space and can readily be carried in the coat pocket.

What I claim is:

1. In a device of the class described the combination with a pair of containers open attheir opposite ends, and hingedly mounted along longitudinal edges of said containers, a longitudinal interior Wall dividing each container into a pair of compartments accessible from opposite ends of the container, and resilient means embracing the wall porti( ns of each compartment for yieldingly retaining a group of cards within said compartment.

2. In a device of the class described the combination with a pair of containers having compartments therein, said compartments being open at opposite ends of the container, and resilient means comprising a wall portion of each compartment for yieldingly retaining cards in said compartments.

3. In a device of the class described the combination with a pair of containers each having a pair of compartments therein, the compartments in each container being open at opposite ends of said container, means for hingedly mounting the containers one upon the other along longitudinal edges thereof whereby the containers may be tolded one upon the other, and a case men'iber for telescopically receiving the pair of containers in folded relation.

4. In a device of the class described the combination with a rectangular container body, a strip of resilient material having its ends secured upon the opposite inner faces at the opposite ends of the rectangular eontainer and its intermediate portion bent at angles to provide a pair of uniform coinpartments Within the container, said compartments comprising side walls and bottom walls formed by the resilient member, one of the. side walls of each compartment being bulged to yieldingly resist insertion and removal of cards from the compartments.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 3rd day of March, 1925.

CLIFFORD E. ALBERT

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