Flexible receptacle with credit card holder

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention provides an improved credit card holder which can be used in a billfold, wallet or other similar item and which provides a means to minimize the thickness of the wallet while providing a method for supporting a large number of credit cards in stacked shingled relationship.
The credit card holder also facilitates a more economical mode of manufacture conserving both material and assembly time.
Generally, the credit card holder of the invention comprises an outer flexible sheet member or wall having a series of generally parallel slits therein which are spaced apart such that the outer wall includes a plurality of laterally extending parallel adjacent strips.
The credit card holder also includes an inner flexible liner comprised of a generally rectangular sheet of flexible material and is received in back-to-back relationship against the rear surface of the outer flexible wall.
The peripheries of the flexible liner and the outer flexible wall are bonded together to secure these members in back-to-back relation.
The inner flexible liner includes a plurality of three-sided slits which are formed in adjacent but spaced relationship so as to define a series of aligned and similarly shaped nested flexible flaps.
The flexible flaps each include an upper edge which can be secured to the rear surface of one of the strips of the outer flexible wall in such a manner that when a credit card is received through the slits in the outer flexible wall, the credit card is received between the flexible flap and the flexible liner and is supported along its bottom edge by the juncture of the flexible flap and the flexible liner.
In manufacturing billfolds or wallets, it is generally desirable to construct these items to comprise the thinnest possible unit.
The prior art has illustrated means for supporting credit cards in stacked shingled relationship but these prior art means required the use of a plurality of stacked pockets which each included several layers of flexible material