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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 1990
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1988
Horst K Wieder, Watertown, WI (US);
Other;
Abstract
A holder (10) has a top housing (12) and a bottom housing (14) which encloses a numismatic item (24) for protection and display. The top housing (12) has an interior surface (28), an exterior surface (30), and edges (32, 34, 36, 38). The bottom housing (14) has an interior surface (46), an exterior surface (48), and edges (50, 52, 54, 56). Each of the edges (32, 34, 36, 38) of the top housing (12) has an underlapping finger (40) that extends from the interior surface (28) and that interlocks with an overlapping finger (58) that extends from the interior surface (46) of the edges (50, 52, 54, 56) of the bottom housing (14) when the housings (12, 14) are pressed together. The fingers (40, 58) have respective barbs (42, 60) which engage with one another when the housings (12, 24) are pressed together to seal and confine the numismatic item ( 24) in a chamber (86) formed between a first coin window (16) located in the top housing (12) and a second coin window (18) located in the bottom housing (14). A label (26) may be similarly enclosed in a chamber (88) formed between a first label window (20) and a second label window (22). An elastomeric ring (80) of optional size may be used to enclose a numismatic item (24) that is smaller than the chamber (86).