Manual device for carrying coins or other personal elements of the user

Abstract

 Manual device (1) for carrying coins or other personal items by the user, characterised by its composition of two independent parts; a receiver part (2) and a covering part (3), united and joined together by means of a joint (4). The receiver part (2) is equipped with a number or slits (5) specifically habilitated to accommodate various coins (6) of different sizes, and the covering part (3) is designed to cover the receiver part (2). The two parts may vary their relative positions by means of the joint (4), and may thereby adopt two different positions, one uncovered or open, the other covered or closed. It may display a raised pattern (8) for tactile comprehension by blind users, in the style of "Braille" or other such systems, either together with the slits (5) in order to identify the coins (6) within, or on any other point on the device (1) for the comprehension of any other type of message.

Description

Objective of the Invention.

[0001] This invention has as its objective to be a manual device to carry coins or other personal elements by the user. It allows the user to carry coins or other personal effects on their person, in a manual, simple, comfortable and safe manner.

Background to the invention

[0002] This invention arose in response to a need on the part of the user to carry around coins or other personal effects.

[0003] When the user needs to carry such items, it is usually necessary to carry them in pockets or in a handbag, with the subsequent lack of control and disorder that this implies on occasions, as such items become mixed up with other unrelated items.

[0004] The use of pockets or bags to carry different items can also result in difficulty in finding the precise coins that are needed for the occasion. While looking for the coins, more disorder is created in the pockets or bags, and it becomes impossible to find the correct coins. This situation might occur whilst getting onto the bus, for example, or whilst trying to pay a toll on the motorway.

[0005] This invention resolves all those difficulties, as it allows the user to carry coins around with them comfortably and safely, and to have access to the coins quickly, without any of the inconveniences previously described.

Summary of the Invention

[0006] The manual device for carrying coins and other personal items of the user is characterised by its composition of two main parts; a receiving part and a covering part, independent yet united and joined together by means of a joint. The receiver part provides a multitude of slits that are specially tailored to acommodate coins of different sizes. The covering part is made so as to provide a cover for the receiver part, and, as both can vary their position relative to each other by means of the joint, the device can adopt two different positions, one open or uncovered, and another closed or covered. In the open position the receiver part with the slits has the coins within uncovered and in view of the user, and on pivoting the joint the covering part covers the receiver part, covering the coins in their respective slits, closing the device and leaving the coins out of sight of the user. This is the position used for carrying the device, and the device is able to pass from covered to uncovered and viceversa manually.

[0007] These and other characteristics will be made clear in a detailed description that follows, which is accompanied by two explanatory diagrams giving a practical case in use, illustrating just one of the uses within the reach of this invention.

Diagrams

[0008] Figures 1 and 2 show the two generally preferred positions of the device invented, in the closed or covered position, and the open or uncovered position, respectively.

Detailed description of one preferred form of use of the invention.

[0009] In accordance with the objective of this invention, the manual device for carrying coins or other personal items is designed to allow the user to carry coins and other items on his person manually, comfortably, simply, and safely.

[0010] As it can be seen in Figures 1 and 2, device -1- manually carrying coins or other personal items of the user of this invention, is composed of a receiver part -2- and a covering part -3- , independent from each other but joined together by a joint -4- .

[0011] The device -1- of the invention allows two positions, the open uncovered position (figure 2) and the closed covered position (figure 1).

[0012] The receiver part -2- provides slits -5- specifically made for the insertion of coins.

[0013] Coins -6- may be inserted or taken out manually from those slits -5- by the user.

[0014] In the uncovered open position (figure 2), the receiver part -2- presents the slits -5- uncovered and visible to the user. It is in this position that the user may introduce or take out coins -6- from the slits -5- , according to their requirements.

[0015] As the user wishes, the covering part -3- may pivot on the joint -4- and so cover the receiver part -2- , leaving the device -1- in the covered or closed position (figure 1). In this position, the covering part -3-covers the receiver part -2-, covering the slits -5- and therefore the coins -6- inserted within.

[0016] It is in this covered position (figure 1), that the device -1- may be carried by the user themselves, with the coins -6- housed within the slits -5-, inside a pocket or bag.

[0017] When the user needs or desires to use the coins -6-, he must manually pivot the covering part -3- on its joint -4- and uncover the receiver part -2- and pass to the uncovered or open position (figure 2), and in this manner the coins -6- appear in the slits -5- of the uncovered receiver part -2- , so that the user themself can take out the desired coins -6- for their particular use.

[0018] The slits -5- are adjusted to the different sizes of coins -6-, so that each size and type of coin -6- is found in its particular slit -5-,. This assists the user to find the coin -6- they are looking for or require at that moment, unlike what occurs when he must search in a pocket or handbag, where it is much more problematic to identify which coins they are taking out.

[0019] The covering part -2-, together with the slits -5- or in another position of the device -1- may also display advertising elements or features, which would be visible to the user at the time of use in either the open or closed position.

[0020] The device -1- of the invention may also display or use a raised pattern -8- for tactile comprehension by the blind, in the manner of "Braille" or similar, either together with the slits -5- to identify coins -6- within, or in any other place on the device -1- for the user's comprehension or other type of message.

[0021] The invention shown may display a configuration and components pertinent to other functions. The components previously described may be used, or indeed any other components ideal for the carrying out the same activity.

[0022] This invention, in essence, may be put into practice for other forms of use that differ only slightly from the use given by way of example, and these will also attain the same level of protection as that claimed. It is possible, then, to make this invention with the materials, components, and accessories considered most appropriate, as the elements may be substituted for by others which are technically equivalent, in order to include all the claims of the device.

Claims

1. Manual device for carrying coins or other personal elements by the user, characterised by the composition of two independent parts; a receiver part (2) and a covering part (3), united and joined together by means of a joint (4), the receiver part (2) being equipped with a number of slits (5) specifically habilitated to acommodate various coins (6) of different sizes, the covering part (3) designed to cover the receiver part (2), and the parts (2) and (3) may vary their relative position by means of a joint (4), and the device (1) may thereby adopt two different positions, one uncovered or open, the other covered or closed.

2. Manual device for bearing coins or other personal elements by the user according to claim 1, is also characterised by the fact that it may display a raised pattern (8) for tactile comprehension by blind users, in the style of "Braille" or other systems, either together with the slits (5) in order to identify the coins (6) housed within, or on any other point of the device (1) for the comprehension of any other type of message.

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