Book-like holder and organizer for sets of computer diskettes

• US 5,193,681 A
• Filed: 02/24/1992
• Issued: 03/16/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Winslow R. Lievsay
• Original Assignee: Winslow R. Lievsay
• Inventors: Lievsay, Winslow R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Foster, Jimmy G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hilliard, Thomas P.
• Application Number:
  US07/840,561
• Time in Patent Office: 386 Days
• Field of Search: 206/309-313, 206/425, 206/444, 206/472-474, 206/449, 206/450, 229/1.5 R
• US Class Current: 206/308.3
• CPC Class Codes: B42F 5/005 Albums for record carriers, e.g. for disc records
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/0438 for disc cartridges
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/0494 packages made by folding

Abstract

A novel fastenable book-like holder, organizer and storage device for a series of computer diskettes. A set of diskette envelopes (28) uniquely leaved together with pliant covers (26)(16) bound by a device such as a popular plastic comb binding (36), and fastened by a device such as a hook and loop fastener (20) so that the holder secures a set of computer floppy diskettes. The cover configuration includes an elongated flapped member (16) which can be scored (22) for easy folding around the end of the holder; which, upon closure, secures the contents, and the curve of which, when open, keeps contained diskettes from falling from the various leaves (28). The materials and design are chosen to deliver the holders'"'"'utility; and allow it to be easily and economically manufactured.

Claims

1. A computer diskette holder holding a plurality of diskettes, comprising:

a binding means;

a plurality of identical diskette receiving envelopes, each containing only a single one of said diskettes, each diskette having a label and an edge, each envelope including;

a front panel and a rear panel joined together except for a single peripheral opening at one side, said front panel being shorter than said rear panel such that said opening exposes said label and edge of a respective diskette, a bound edge margin of each envelope located opposite said opening being bound loosely by said binding means such that the envelope may rotate about said binding means, and such that one of said envelopes is immediately next in rotation to another of said envelopes, and said one and another envelopes may be positioned in opposite directions in generally a same plane;

said plurality of envelopes being oriented such that their front panels face in a same direction of rotation about said binding means while being identically aligned along said binding means, whereby said one envelope may be filled and rotated and said another envelope is most readily apparent to be the next envelope subsequently filled to avoid confusion during selective sequential filling of said diskettes in said envelopes;

a front cover sheet, a back cover sheet being shorter than said front cover sheet, said cover sheets being attached to said binding means and being adapted together to close said holder.

2. The holder holding the plurality of diskettes as set forth in claim 1, wherein said binding means comprises a binder made of resilient material, said binder having a spine and a plurality of fingers extending from one longitudinal edge of said spine, each finger having a curled body portion such that ends of said fingers engage a longitudinal edge of said spine opposite said one longitudinal edge, each finger extending through aligned perforations in said envelopes.

3. The holder holding the plurality of diskettes as set forth in claim 1, wherein the cover sheets include means for fastening them together, said fastening means including hook and loop fastening components, one of said components attached to an inside surface of the front cover sheet and the other component being attached to the outside surface of the rear cover sheet.

4. The holder holding the plurality of diskettes as set forth in claim 1, wherein the envelopes are uniquely labelled on the front panels.

5. The holder holding the plurality of diskettes as set forth in claim 1, additionally comprising flexing means which allow the front cover to assume a form fitting curvature around edges adjacent the openings of the envelopes when the holder is closed.

6. The holder holding the plurality of diskettes as set forth in claim 1, additionally comprising flexing means which allow the front cover to assume a form fitting curvature around edges adjacent the openings of the envelopes when the holder is closed and also retain its curvature when open whereby a verso envelope gathering of the diskettes is restrained from spilling out while the holder is open an in use.