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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1997
Earl Wilson, Oviedo, FL (US);
Other;
Abstract
Gripping holders are described for cigarette lighters. The embodiments include small rubber hollow shaped cylinders, oblong shaped cylinders and oval bands that have pre-selected lengths, diameters and thicknesses sized to stretch about and tightly grip outer circumferences of cigarette lighters. Another version of the gripping holder has two rectangular rubber sheets creating a sandwich about two side-by-side magnets. Folding sandwich sheets about money bills so that the magnets attract one another creates a money clip gripper holder. The pocket type items with gripping holders do not slide out of shirt pockets nor slide from a pants pockets. The outer surfaces of the small rubber gripping holders can be smooth, have ridges, raised rings, finger shaped indentions and have other grooved shapes. The nonslip rubberized surfaces of the gripper holder are an aid against pickpockets. An extra option includes adhering Velcro.RTM. type hook and loop fastener patches to the sides of these gripping holders in order to allow for the gripping holders to be attachable and detachable to one another. Another embodiment has cut-out letters spelling SLIPPER GRIPPER on the long parallel sides of an oval cigarette lighter band.