US 12,419,398 B2
Credit card ejector having break coupling
René Johan Van Geer, Rijswijk (NL)
Assigned to SPIRID CREATON B.V., The Hague (NL)
Filed by René Johan Van Geer, Rijswijk (NL)
Filed on Dec. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/645,347.
Application 17/645,347 is a continuation of application No. 16/303,542, granted, now 11,234,502, previously published as PCT/NL2017/050341, filed on May 26, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 2016844 (NL), filed on May 26, 2016; and application No. 2018978 (NL), filed on May 25, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0110425 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. A45C 11/18 (2006.01)
CPC A45C 11/182 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A holder for cards comprising:
a housing that fits tightly around a stack of at least three cards and comprising at least one card opening for locating and removing cards,
a card eject feature within the housing, opposite the card opening, the card eject features configured such that the cards can be partly slid from the housing through the card opening, wherein the card eject feature comprises an eject arm configured to pivot within the housing between a first and a second position and during said movement ejects the cards by engaging and forcing the cards to simultaneously partly exit the housing, and
an external actuating feature to provide force to eject the cards by the eject arm and to drive the eject arm from the first to the second position,
wherein the eject arm provides a short lever arm designed to engage the cards and a long lever arm designed to engage the cards wherein the long lever arm is at least 10% longer than the short lever arm.