CD storage box

• US 5,590,767 A
• Filed: 07/28/1995
• Issued: 01/07/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chin-Chu Li
• Original Assignee: Chin-Chu Li
• Inventors: Li, Chin-Chu
• Primary Examiner(s): Dayoan, B.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BUI, LUAN KIM
• Application Number:
  US08/508,922
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• Field of Search: 206/308.1, 206/307, 206/307.1, 206/309-313
• US Class Current: 206/308.1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/045 comprising centre hole locking means

Abstract

A CD storage box including a casing having two opposite rear barrels, a stack of individual CD holders mounted inside the casing having respective barrels turnably connected in series at the same elevation, a cover board having two end lugs respectively and turnably connected to the rear barrels of the casing by a respective locating knob and a barrel connected between the two barrels of the top individual CD holder, and a decorative board slidably mounted on the cover board and having a downward front hook for hooking in a retaining hole on the casing to close the cover board, wherein the decorative board can be extended out of the cover board and used as a sign board when the cover board is opened.

Claims

1. A CD storage box comprising:

a flat casing having a top storage chamber, a rear open end, two opposite barrels at said rear open end, a front close end, a retaining hole on said front close end, each barrel of said flat casing having a plurality of longitudinal grooves;

a stack of individual CD holders received in said top storage chamber of said flat casing, each individual CD holder having two barrels spaced at one end, a CD seat, a hub raised from said CD seat for holding an individual CD in said CD seat, each barrel of said individual CD holders having an annular coupling flange and an annular coupling groove, the barrels of said individual CD holders being turnably connected in series by fitting the respective annular coupling flanges into the respective annular coupling grooves;

a cover pivotably connected to said casing and covering said individual CD holders, said cover comprising two end lugs respectively, turnably connected to the barrels of said casing, a barrel spaced between said end lugs and connected between the barrels of one individual CD holder, and a downward hook for hooking in the retaining hole on the front close end of said casing; and

two locating knobs respectively fastened to the barrels of said casing to secure the end lugs of said cover to said casing, each locating knob having a plurality of locating legs respectively inserted through the end lugs of said cover into the longitudinal grooves of the barrels of said casing.

2. The CD storage box of claim 1, wherein said cover comprises a cover board pivotably fastened to said casing by said locating knobs, and a decorative board slidably mounted on said cover board, said cover board having a flat top wall and a plurality of longitudinal sliding grooves on said flat top wall, said decorative board having a plurality of longitudinal rails respectively slidably connected to the longitudinal sliding grooves of said cover board.