US Patent 10893731 Card holder for credit cards and other cards

Card holder for bank cards, credit cards, debit cards, driving licences, electronic identity cards or similar cards, having a cuboidal housing with an interior for receiving at least one card, a card opening of the housing for inserting at least one card into the housing and pushing out at least one card from the housing, at least one dispensing element which is displaceable from a first position into a second position in order to be brought into engagement with the lower edge of a card in the interior and to push out the one card through the card opening from the housing, an actuating element which is coupled to the dispensing element in order to displace the dispensing element from the first position into the second position by actuating the actuating element, wherein a first spring apparatus is supported, on the one hand, on the dispensing element and, on the other hand, on the housing, wherein the first spring apparatus is able to be tensioned by displacing the dispensing element from the second position into the first position, a locking apparatus has a first locking element connected to the dispensing element and a second locking element retained in the housing so that the first and second locking elements are able to be locked together by displacing the dispensing element into the first position, and the actuating element is coupled to the locking apparatus in order to unlock the first and second locking elements by actuating the actuating element, so that the first spring apparatus displaces the dispensing element from the first position into the second position in order to push out the card thereby from the card opening.