US633006A

US633006A - Card-case.

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Publication number: US633006A
Application number: US72057099A
Authority: US
Inventors: Philip Hufeland
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1899-06-14
Filing date: 1899-06-14
Publication date: 1899-09-12
Anticipated expiration: 1916-09-12

Description

No. 633,006. Patented Sept. l2, I899. P. HUFELAND.

CARD CASE.

(Application filed June 14, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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CARD-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,006, dated September 12, 1899. Application filed June 14,1899. Serial No. 720,570. No model.)

To (bZZ/ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP I-IUFELAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Card-Cases, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to what may conveniently be styled a single card-case or a card-case which allows but one card at a time to be withdrawn or started, and the contents or cards in the case are at the same time kept clean or protected against handling, as 'set forth in the following specification and claims, and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the case. Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a central section along mm, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a transverse section along y y, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section along .2' .2', Fig. 2, Fig. 6 is a view like Fig. 3, showing the top card started.

The case or receptacle comprises a section with a bottom 1, front 2, and sides 3 closed. The top and rear are open or cut away. Another section hasthe top 4, sides 5, and back 6 closed. Here the bottom and front are open or cut away. One section-say 4 6can be slid or pushed into the other, the sides 3 of this other section having the inwardly-projecting side flanges 7 for retaining section 4 6. Before being assembled a spring or pressure plate 8 and a set of cards 9 are placed in one of the sections, this spring tending to hold the top card to the top 4 and to feed up 1 the pack as cards are successively taken off the top. The front 2 is somewhatlower than sides 3 to leave a slit or space between this front and the top 4 sufficient for one card at a time to pass through. In other words, the top card can be drawn off, while the underlying cards are held or retained in the case.

. An ejector or starter is shown for moving or starting the top card sufficiently far through the slit or over front 2, so that this top card canbe seized and withdrawn. The ejector comprises a plate or arm 10, pivoted at 11 and having a finger-button or thumb-piece 12 extended through and adapted to travel in segmental slot 14 in top 4. As the ejector or button 12 is moved toward front 2 the top card is started out over such front. When the button is released, the ejector is automatic-ally returned to its normal or starting position at theback or rear of slot 14. A returningspring 15 is made to automatically return the starter. This spring can be conveniently coiled about pivot 11 and braced against back 6. The ejector 10 is shown with a lip or shoulder 16, which the spring can engage or press against to return the ejector. The pivot or pin 11 projects from top 4. The ejector is made to engage the contents or cards in the receptacle and such contents are at the same time protected against handling,

the slot 14 being so small or narrow as to prevent a hand or finger passing to the cards. Such receptacle thus keeps the cards clean and in presentable shape. The ejector normally lies in a chamber at the end of the case opposite the end containing the card-delivery slot, and the chamber is created by a partition-plate 17 extending transversely of the case at the inner end of the pack of cards when in the case. ends with flanges 1S, bent at right angles thereto and lying against the sides 5 of the inner case-section which contains the slot 14 in its top wall. The cards 9 and spring cardpresser 6 prevent the partition shifting to- 83 ward the card-delivery slot, while the flanges 18 retain it fixed with relation to the back end wall 6 of the inner case-section. A longitudinal recess 19 in the top edge of partition 17 allows the starter to move over the 85 gages various parts of the card edge or face. 5

Should a part of the card be bent out of level or not properly gripped, another part of the card will be taken hold of by the starter as it moves in a circular path in a plane parallel with the top and bottom Wallsof the case-sec- Ioa tions.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A card-case composed of two sections The plate is formed at its The starter o slidable one within the other and having a card-delivery slot at one end, a pivot at the opposite end, a card'starter plate mounted on the pivot, swinging in a circular path parallel with the top and bottom walls and arranged to bear directly against the inner edge of the uppermost card to start it through the carddelivery slot, a slot in the top wall, a fingerpiece passing through the latter slot and attached to the card-starter plate, and a spring acting upon a part of said plate to swing it back to normal position after it has been swung forward to start a card, substantially as described.

2. A card-case having a card-delivery slot at one end, a transverse partition-plate near its opposite end, to provide a chamber, a slot in its top wall, a pivot in said chamber, a cardstarter plate mounted on said pivot, swinging back and forth, in a circular path over the partition-plate, in a plane parallel with the top and bottom walls and arranged to bear directly against the inner end of the uppermost card to start it through the card-delivery slot, a finger-piece passing through the slot in the top wall and attached to the cardstarter plate, and a spring arranged in said partition-plate, in a plane parallel with the top and bottom walls, and arranged to bear directly against the inner ends of the upper most card to start it, a segmental slot formed in the top wall over the partition, a fingerpiece extending through the segmental slot and attached to the card-starter plate, and a spring coiled on said pivot in said chamber and bearing against the starter-plate to swing it back to normal position after it has been swung forward to start a card, substantially as described. v

4.. A card-case composed of two similar sections slidable one within the other and having a card-delivery slot at one end, a transverse partition near the opposite end to provide a chamber, a segmental slot formed in the top wall over the partition, a pivot in said chamber, a card-starter plate mounted on the pivot, swinging over the partition in a plane parallel with the top and bottom walls and arranged to bear directly against the uppermost card to start it through the card-delivery slot, a fin ger-piece extending through the segmental slot and attached to the starter-plate, and a spring coiled on the pivot in said chamber and acting against the starter-plate to swing it back to normal position 7 after it has been swung forward to start a card, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHIL. HUFELAND.

\Vitnesses:

ADOLPH SELIKOWITZ, E. F. KASTENHUBER.