Container

• US 4,724,957 A
• Filed: 10/14/1986
• Issued: 02/16/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Otto Burgschweiger
• Original Assignee: Otto Burgschweiger
• Inventors: Burgschweiger, Otto
• Primary Examiner(s): Foster, Jimmy G.
• Application Number:
  US06/918,392
• Time in Patent Office: 490 Days
• Field of Search: 206/311, 206/387, 206/432, 206/472, 206/309, 220/339, 229/2.5 R, 281/29, 281/30, 281/31, 281/35-37, 402/3
• US Class Current: 206/308.1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 23/02 Containers; Storing means both adapted to cooperate with the recording or reproducing means

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing book-like containers for tape-like or disk-like record supports for acoustic and/or optical information, as well as data processing programs, with a book back made from cardboard and a reception part fixed thereto for the record supports and a container produced by this method. From a cardboard blank is initially produced a book cover with a round back part, followed by the production of a foil-lined print covering, which is provided with a system impression and is then connected to the book cover. Then on the first inside of the book cover is fixed a cover member for the reception part formed as a deep-drawn part from polystyrene or the like and on the other inside of the book cover is fixed a base member also made as a deep-drawn part from polystyrene or the like and which is connected with the cover member of the reception part by a preshaped back part. As a result, in the vicinity of the back part, the book cover is not joined therewith.

Claims

1. A book-like container for tape or disc recording media holders, said container comprising:

a casing member (2) formed of cardboard, said casing member having a pair of covers connected by a curved spine section (3) and a foil (5) on the side of the casing member that is exterior when the book-like container is closed; and

a base member reception part (11) mounted on one of said covers for receiving the recording media holder, a cover member reception part (10) mounted on the other of said covers, said reception parts being mounted on the side of said casing member that is interior when the book-like container is closed, said reception parts being formed of a plastic material and being connected by an elastically resilient plastic sheet-like connecting section (9) spanning said spine section (3) of said casing member but unconnected therewith, said connecting section being curved and biasing said container to the closed position, said base member reception part having four walls (15, 16, 17,

     18) forming a rectangular peripheral flange defining a recess (14) for receiving the recording media holder, a cut out (23) in the wall (18) of said peripheral flange adjacent said connecting section (9) facilitating removal of the holder from said recess, the remaining three walls (15, 16,

     17) of said peripheral flange being stepped to form a shoulder (20) on which the recording media holder rests when received in said recess, the walls (15, 16, 17,

     18) of said base member reception part elastically engaging a wall (19) of said cover member reception part (10) forming a peripheral flange on said cover member reception part, the corners of said peripheral flange of said base member reception part having outwardly extending protrusions lying normal to the cover of said casing member on which said base member reception part is mounted, said protrusions (33) formed to engage a substantially smooth surface of said wall (19) of said cover member reception part when the book-like container is in the closed condition for retaining the book-like container in the closed condition.

2. The container according to claim 1 wherein said protrusions of said corners of said peripheral flange convexly protrude toward the outer edge of said flange.

3. The container according to claim 2 wherein said protrusions are formed of a thickened material portion.

4. The container according to claim 1 wherein said peripheral flange of said base member reception part has retaining means (50) on the inner surface of said walls for retaining a holder for a disc-like recording medium.

5. The container according to claim 4 wherein said retaining means comprises lips extending over said shoulder (20) for the detachable retention of a holder for a disc-like recording medium.

6. The container according to claim 1 wherein both said reception parts have recesses and a profile member is detachably inserted in at least one of said recesses for securing the recording media holder.

7. The container according to claim 1 wherein said recess in said base member includes pins (22) for receiving the recording media holder.

8. The container according to claim 1 wherein said wall (19) of said cover member reception part (10) has a pair of opposing undercut edges (38, 39) for retaining a media holder in said cover member reception part.

9. The contaier according to claim 8 wherein said cover member reception part (10) has a recess (40) with a groove (41) extending through one of the undercut edges.