Housing

• US 4,802,601 A
• Filed: 01/27/1987
• Issued: 02/07/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amarax International Limited
• Original Assignee: Amarax International Limited
• Inventors: Thompson, Peter, Pijanowski, Stefan, Dartnall, Adrian
• Primary Examiner(s): Little, Willis
• Application Number:
  US07/007,698
• Time in Patent Office: 742 Days
• Field of Search: 220/4 R, 220/4 B, 220/4 E, 220/4 C, 220/1 A, 220/253, 220/306, 220/345, 220/350, 220/351, 220/354, 220/400, 229/23 R, 206/387, 206/581, 206/444
• US Class Current: 220/4.01
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 11/12 of drawer-and-shell type
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 23/0233 Containers for a single cassette

Abstract

A container comprising two identical rigid molded frame members and an initially flat sheet of flexible material adapted to be received and retained in a channel in the frame member.

Claims

1. A housing comprising spaced-apart front and rear walls and side walls defining a receiving space for the container contents, characterized by the feature that one or more molded, peripheral frame means form a side walls or walls or part side walls of the container and define spaces in which a front wall and a rear wall of the container are locatable when received by receiving means of the frame means;

and that one or more initially flat sheets of flexible material are adapted to form the front and rear walls of the container;

each said frame means having two spaced or at least one receiving means to receive portions or a portion of said sheet forming the front and rear walls, wherein two frame members are provided as the frame means, with each frame member having receiving means in the form of grooves or channel means with sheet engaging means for retainably receiving one of said flexible sheets or a portion of a flexible sheet which has another portion received by the other frame member.

2. A housing as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the two frame members are identical and invertably disposed rotated through 180°

relative to each other and are inter-connected at one side by hinge means and at another side by catch means to enable the frame members to be releasably inter-engageable.

3. A housing as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that a single flexible sheet forms the front and rear walls and a portion of the flexible sheet forms hinge means between the front and rear walls.

5. A housing assembled from the frame members of claim 1 in combination with the sheet material which forms the front and rear walls characterized in that a single sheet of initially flat flexible material forms the front and rear walls after being folded in a central region which forms a flexible hinge means joining the two frame members, in that said sheet has in the channel means for engagement by resilient projections formed with the frame members and projecting at least into said channel means so as to engage said sheet.

6. A housing or container as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that the channel means are provided on at least two opposite lateral side portions of the inner periphery of each frame member which (lateral portions) extend from and regions of a lateral portion inter-connecting said opposite lateral side portions.

4. A housing for use in the assembly of a container having front and rear walls and side walls defining the receiving space of the container with the front wall being displaceable relative to the rear wall, comprising two, three-sided, identical molded frame members which, when disposed one inverted relative to the other and rotated through 180°

, are releasably inter-engageable by means of co-operable inter-engageable catch means, said frame members each defining a central space for receiving wall means provided by sheet material retainably received in a channel and support means provided in an inner peripheral region of the frame members, and wherein the catch means include a projecting portion and a recessed portion and are molded with the frame members and disposed on either side of a central axis so as to enable inter-engagement when the two frame members are brought together in their operative disposition.