Claims
- 1. A coin holder comprising a hollow cylindrical tube that includes two semi-cylindrical wall sections hingedly connected together for fold-up into a flat package; and a circular end wall for said tube; said circular end wall comprising two semi-circular sections hingedly connected to respective ones of the tube sections for movement between a folded position extending within the flat package and an unfolded position extending normal to the tube axis.
- 2. The coin holder of claim 1 wherein the end wall sections are hingedly connected together on an imaginary line contained within the plane that separates the tube sections.
- 3. The coin holder of claim 1 wherein each semi-cylindrical tube section is bendable in the axial plane.
- 4. The coin holder of claim 3 wherein each semi-cylindrical tube section has a plural number of weakened bend lines running longitudinally parallel to the tube axis.
- 5. The coin holder of claim 3 wherein each semi-cylindrical tube section has a plural number of perforation typed bend lines running longitudinally parallel to the tube axis.
- 6. The coin holder of claim 1 wherein the circular end wall is integral with the tube sections.
- 7. The coin holder of claim 1 wherein the cylindrical tube and circular end wall are separate pieces joined together.
- 8. The coin holder of claim 1 wherein the end wall sections are hingedly connected together on an imaginary line contained within the plane that separates the tube sections; said circular end wall having two tabs extending therefrom on an imaginary line normal to the hinge connection line between said semi-circular sections; said tabs being adhesively secured to outer face areas of the tube sections to hingedly connect the circular end wall to the tube.
- 9. The coin holder of claim 8 wherein said hollow cylindrical tube is formed of a single sheet of stiff paper that has its axial end edges overlapped and adhesively secured together; said tube being subdivided into two semi-cylindrical sections by means of two longitudinal creases extending from one end of the tube sheet to the other end.
- 10. The coin holder of claim 1 wherein said semi-cylindrical wall sections have end edges that are slanted at acute angles to the tube axis, said end edges defining a coin entrance mouth having a lateral dimension greater than the diameter of the cylindrical tube.
- 11. The coin holder of claim 1, and further comprising an elongated strip of material adhesively secured to the outer face of said circular end wall; said elongated strip of material extending laterally beyond the circular edges of the circular end wall to form two projecting flaps; a film of contact adhesive on surface areas of said flaps, whereby the flaps can be folded onto outer faces of the cylindrical tube so that the adhesive films lock the flaps to the tube.
- 12. A coin holder comprising a hollow cylindrical tube formed of a single sheet of stiff paper that has its axial end edges overlapped and adhesively secured together; two longitudinal creases extending the length of said stiff paper sheet to define two semi-cylindrical wall sections hingedly connected together for fold-up into a flat package; and a circular end wall for one end of said tube; said circular end wall comprising a second sheet of material separate from said tube-forming sheet; said second sheet having a crease therein subdividing the circular wall into two semi-circular sections that can fold or unfold around the associated crease; said second sheet comprising two tabs extending from the circular wall on an imaginary line normal to the associated creases in the second sheet; said tabs being adhesively secured to outer face areas of the tube sheet so as to hingedly connect the semi-circular sections of the end wall to the tube.
- 13. The coin holder of claim 12 wherein the crease in the second sheet lies in a common plane with the longitudinal creases in the tube-forming sheet, whereby the tube and end wall fold or unfold together around a common plane.
- 14. The coin holder of claim 12, and further comprising an elongated strip of material adhesively secured to one face of said circular end wall; said elongated strip of material extending laterally beyond the circular edges of the end wall to form two projecting flaps; a film of contact adhesive on the surfaces of said flaps so that when the flaps are folded onto the tube the contact adhesive will lock the flaps to the tube.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATION
This application is related to my U.S. Pat. application Ser. No. 186,892 filed on Apr. 27, 1988, now abandoned.
This invention relates to coin holders of the type shown, e.g. in U.S. Pat. No. 1,878,592 to M. McWhirter, or U.S. Pat. No. 2,194,904 to E. Jackson, or U.S. Pat. No. 3,533,501 to G. Dorsett.
My invention is intended to be an improvement on the device shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,139,976 to S. Swain. The Swain patent discloses a coin holder that supposedly is adapted to be readily converted from a flat condition (non-use mode) to an upright cylindrical configuration suitable for receiving individual coins. Swain does not disclose structural features that would enable the walls of the coin holder to be flexible (for fold-up to the flat condition) and at the same time rigid (for assuming an upright tubular configuration).
My invention contemplates a coin holder comprised of semi-cylindrical tube sections that are bendable in the circumferential plane but substantially rigid in the axial plane; the tube sections can be folded flat or set upright in a cylindrical configuration. An end wall of the coin holder comprises two semi-circular sections that can be folded into the flattened tube sections or unfolded into an operative condition extending normal to the tube axis.
A principal object of my invention is to provide a coin holder that can be stored flat and used in an upright cylindrical configuration.
An ancillary object is to provide a coin holder that will retain its cylindrical configuration without danger of buckling or collapsing.
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Patent Grant
4905823
