System for display and storage of cassettes

• US 4,375,850 A
• Filed: 02/05/1982
• Issued: 03/08/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Certron Corp. (Cybrdi, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Certron Corp. (Cybrdi, Inc.)
• Inventors: Smyth, William A., Carlson, Graydon S., Wilde, Harold J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pollard, Steven M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GEHMAN, BRYON P
• Application Number:
  US06/346,223
• Time in Patent Office: 396 Days
• Field of Search: 206/387, 206/461, 206/462, 206/463, 206/464, 206/465, 206/471, 206/476, 206/806, 206/45.14, 206/45.31, 206/493, 206/44.12, 229/16 D
• US Class Current: 206/387.15
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/107 Grooves, ribs, or the like, situated on opposed walls and between which the articles are located
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 23/023 Containers for magazines or cassettes

Abstract

A system is disclosed for retail display of a cassette in a box and for storage of a cassette at home or in an automobile using a flat plastic holder having a window and four protrusions into the window. These protrusions fit into holes in the box. A pair of protrusions on one side, which are longer than on the other side, are inserted into matching holes in the box. As the other side is then moved into the window, the other (shorter) pair of protrusions snap into the remaining holes in the box. The holder has an extension at one end with a hole for receiving a rod of a display rack. For storage, the holder slides into slots on the inside of a case. The extension then seves as a tab for lifting the holder out of the case.

Claims

1. A system for display on a rod of a rack and storage in a case of cassette in boxes comprising a holder for at least one of said boxes, said holder being comprised of a flat sheet having a window for receiving a box, said box having a pair of holes in each end wall near a base of said box, each hole being formed by a U-shaped channel in the end wall extending past the inner surface of said base, and a pair of nibs protruding into said window from said holder at opposite sides, said opposite sides being selected to correspond to the ends of said box having said holes, whereby said nibs inserted into said holes will retain said box, said holder having a tab extending from one side, and said tab having a hole adapted to receive said rod for display on said rack, and a storage case having slots on two opposing sides for receiving said holder and holding said holder upright with the tab thereof extending upwardly for withdrawing said holder from said case.

2. A system as defined in claim 1 wherein one pair of said nibs are made longer than the other pair, and the other pair are made just long enough to pass into channels of said box while said box is in said holder and butted against the side of said window opposite said shorter pair of nibs, thereby facilitating the insertion of said nibs into said holes of said box by inserting first the longer pair and then the shorter pair.