JACKET FOR PHONOGRAPH RECORDS

• US 3,774,839 A
• Filed: 02/23/1972
• Issued: 11/27/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Warren H. Woods
• Original Assignee: Warren H. Woods
• Inventors: Woods, Warren H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dixson, Jr., William T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Garbe, Stephen P.
• Application Number:
  US05/228,609
• Time in Patent Office: 643 Days
• Field of Search: 229/68R,73 206/DIG.22,DIG.29,62P 40/2R
• US Class Current: 206/312
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/544 for gramophone records

Abstract

A jacket for phonograph records consisting of an envelope adapted to contain and protect a record, said envelope having portions detachable therefrom for use as advertising display or cataloging matter. The detachable portions may be separated from the envelope selectively either to leave the envelope completely intact, or so as to form window openings in said envelope. The window openings may serve, for example, to permit viewing and reading of the record label, or to provide a finger notch permitting gripping of the record for removal thereof from the jacket.

Claims

1. A phonograph record jacket comprising a flat, generally square envelope open along one edge for the insertion of a phOnograph record therein, said envelope having front and rear walls, both of said walls having corresponding pairs of detachable portions each carrying indicia suitable for use separate from said jacket, corresponding detachable portions of the two envelope walls being disposed in registering relation, one of said detachable portions of each wall being disposed substantially midway of the open edge of said envelope whereby to leave a notch in said open edge when detached, and the other of said detachable portions of each wall being disposed generally centrally of its associated wall, in spaced apart relation from said one detachable portion, whereby when detached to leave a window in said wall through which the central label patch of a record disposed in said jacket may be read.

2. A phonograph record jacket as recited in claim 1 wherein each of the detachable portions of said envelope walls are divided from the remainder of the wall of which it forms a part by lines of perforations formed in said wall, whereby it may be torn free from said wall.

3. A phonograph record jacket as recited in claim 2 with the addition of an oversheet overlying the exterior surface of each of the detachable portions of said envelope walls, and releasably attached thereto by a non-drying adhesive, said indicia being imprinted on said oversheets.