Patent ID: 6126020
Filing Date: 2000-10-03
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An assemblable storage and display unit for CDs, VCDs (Video CDs), MDs (Minidisk), DVDs or any similar media (packaged or not) storage media items, comprising:a first column member;a second column member;a third column member;wherein each of the first, second and third column members include a plurality of slots therein, and in an assembled condition said first, second and third column members are in a spaced apart relationship at apices of a notional triangle;a plurality of shelf members, each shelf having an upwardly facing surface for supporting at least two storage media items in a side by side relationship, and a downwardly facing surface, wherein, in the assembled condition, each of said plurality of shelf members is engaged with a respective slot of said plurality of slots of each of said first, second, and third column members and each of said plurality of shelf members provide at least one relief extending from at least one of the upwardly or downwardly facing surfaces to locate against a portion of an immediately proximate shelf where such portion is:a) the other of the upwardly or downwardly facing surface of the proximate shelf or,b) a relief therefrom,wherein each shelf member can receive onto its upwardly facing surface from a direction between said columns at least two storage media items, each storage media item spaced from the adjacent storage media item at least in part by said relief.