Abstract:
The present invention is a rack for articles such as compact discs (CD's) video tapes, audio cassettes, trays, boxes (media) and the like. The rack is made to fit the media size being racked and filed. What is new and novel about the present rack is that it provides means to freely slide the media directly to a new position in the rack without having to remove media in the rack. This quick refiling to make room for additional media to maintain proper filing sequence and thereby maintain desired filing order. The rack will hold the media in any position: vertical; horizontal; upside down; and in a rotating filing wheel. The invention has opposing channel structures each with compressible elements therein such that media inserted between the fixed channels must compress the elements thereby creating a side-to-side holding (compressive) force sufficient to hold the media at any location along the rack without direct support as in shelves, clips, notches, and the like.
Abstract:
A media storage system and method for use in a cabinet in which a rail member is mounted to at least one of the walls of the cabinet. A side panel is pivotally connected to the rail member for pivotal movement relative thereto, and one or more additional panels are connected to the side panel one to form a storage area. The side panel can be pivoted relative to the rail member between a first position in which the storage area is closed and a second position in which the storage area is open.
Abstract:
The storage system is for use with storage cases particularly of the type used to enclose compact disks, video tapes, cassette tapes and the like, however it may also be used to store any other type of storage case that is compatible with this type of storage. The storage system enables the user to store and maintain a large collection of cases, to add a new addition to the collection at any location within the collection without shuffling the collection, and to remove unneeded portions of the collection without leaving gaps in the storage system.
Abstract:
A slat for a shutter includes an elongated slat body with a longitudinal slot unit formed therethrough, and an elongated lens fixed within the slot unit so as to close the slot unit and so as to permit light from one side of the shutter to reach the other side of the utter via the slot unit and the lens.
Abstract:
The organizer rack component includes a pair of parallel, spaced apart elongated rails for engaging an item of furniture, and a series of parallel, spaced apart cross members or ribs connected integrally at their opposite ends to the rails for defining a series of elongated access openings or apertures to receive boxlike articles therein. The ribs are spaced apart by a given distance sufficiently larger than the corresponding dimension of the article to enable the ribs to receive and retain the article therebetween. Pegs or ears extending outwardly from the rails are received in spaced apart openings in the furniture item to enable the organizer rack component to be held securely thereto in an aesthetically pleasing manner.
Abstract:
A display or storage unit used to hold compact or laser disc cases, video or audio tapes or cassettes, or the like. The unit may be made from a number or modular units attached to each other. Each modular unit has a number of openings used to hold cases, tapes or cassettes. The openings may be angled to facilitate holding the cases, tapes, or cassettes in place. Apertures are provided in side portions, back portions, and top or bottom plates of the modular units, which allow the modular units to be attached to each other in order to build different configurations for the display or storage unit, or to be hung on a supporting structure such as a wall. Upright units formed by the modular units may be mounted on bases using bolts to fasten bottom plates of the units to the bases.
Abstract:
A storage and dispensing unit for a plurality of compact disks in their disk cases in the opened position, the unit including two side wall is that are connected to each other and spaced from each other by a distance greater than the case width, and a plurality of pairs of opposed rails extending toward each other from the side walls so that the inner edges of the rails are spaced from each other by less than the case width, the rails being spaced from adjacent rails on the side wall by a distance greater than the maximum case thickness, the side walls having a length of at least about twice the case width so that a case can be contained within the unit on a respective pair of rails with the case opened, and the base of the case can be extracted by sliding on the opposed rails to move the case to a disk extraction position in which the case base extends beyond the side walls and the disk is exposed to permit extraction of the disk from the case.
Abstract:
Device (16) for mounting and exposing on a substantially vertical surface CD-boxes (11) of the type comprising a bottom part (26) with a hinged cover (27), the bottom part (26) comprising a lower part (28) and an upper part (29) attached to the lower part by snap action, the bottom part (26) forming at one of the two opposite edges a gap (30) between the lower part and the upper part and at the other one of these opposite edges a projecting rib (31). The device comprises two limbs (19, 20) projecting from said surface mutually spaced a distance corresponding to the width of the box. One limb (19) has an edge flange (21) pointing towards the other limb, while said other limb (20) has at least one projection (23). The box is mounted between the limbs (19, 20) by the flange (21) being inserted into the gap (30) and the projection then being allowed to snap over the rib.
Abstract:
A modular compact disc case holder includes a mechanism that is manually actuable by a user for ejecting a compact disc case from the holder upon user selection thereof. The compact disc case holder includes a bottom wall having a number of upstanding ribs spaced along a width thereof so as to define a number of compact disc case holding areas. The bottom wall includes in each of the compact disc holding areas a spring and a retaining member for maintaining a compact disc case between the spring and a retaining member when the retaining member is in a first position. The retaining member is movable by a user to a second position for releasing a compact disc case to allow the spring to partially eject the case from the holder so than it may be easily grasped by a user's fingers. The holder also includes first and second side walls each of which is mountable on a respective first and second side of the bottom wall. A top wall is mountable on the first and second side walls wherein the top wall includes a number of downwardly extending ribs that are spaced in alignment with the bottom wall ribs so as to further define the compact disc case holding areas.
Abstract:
A compact disc box container assembly for holding a number of compact disc container boxes and for displaying, illuminating, and viewing the facial informational indicia of the disc boxes. The holder comprises a pair of opposing longitudinal sides defining a structure with angularly disposed channels, at least two tray members, and at least a pair of end caps slidably engaged to the longitudinal sides. The composition of the composing material includes a fluorescent dyestuff for the illumination of the disc boxes, especially from the edges of the elements that make-up the assembly.