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Patent US4779732 - Container for a plurality of disk-shaped articles and container part thereof - Google Patents
In a container for a plurality of disk-shaped articles, the partly opened base portion possessing receiving grooves consists of two substantially identical parts which can be assembled, and two further, substantially identical cover parts which at least partially close the openings, and means are provided...http://www.google.com/patents/US4779732?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US4779732 - Container for a plurality of disk-shaped articles and container part thereof
Publication number US4779732 A
Application number US 06/883,694
Publication number 06883694, 883694, US 4779732 A, US 4779732A, US-A-4779732, US4779732 A, US4779732A
Inventors Udo Boehm, Dieter Schaefer, Adam Weber
Patent Citations (19), Referenced by (43), Classifications (15), Legal Events (6)
Container for a plurality of disk-shaped articles and container part thereof
US 4779732 A
1. A container for a plurality of disk-shaped articles, in particular recording media, said container comprising a number of superposed component portions,
wherein said component portions are in the form of
a pair of interchangeably identical part-shell shaped carrier portions each having on the inside of said carrier portion a plurality of grooves for receiving said disk-shaped articles and each having at vertically opposed ends first and second openings, respectively, said carrier portions, when assembled with their second openings facing each other, forming a composite shell, and
a pair of, likewise interchangeably identical cover portions for respectively closing said first openings,
means being provided for disengageably locking said cover portions and said part-shell shaped carrier portions together.
2. A container as claimed in claim 1, wherein said carrier portions in side elevation are of substantially rectangular shape and wherein the cover portions in side elevation are L-shaped, one arm of each L-shaped cover portion extending along the outside of the corresponding end, viewed in horizontal direction, of said carrier portions to form an element of said locking means.
9. A container as claimed in claim 6, wherein said stacking means are arranged so as to interlock when one of said part-shell shaped carrier portions is placed on top of another, with the first openings of said two carrier portions facing each other and the two carrier portions being displaced with respect to each other about their common vertical axis by an angle of 180°.
PCT Laid-Open Application WO 86/00746 discloses a container for thin articles, in particular FlexyDisks® (® is a registered trademark of BASF Aktiengesellschaft), in which two externally identical container halves form a completely closed container provided with receiving elements for the FlexyDisks. The receiving elements are formed by elements which have an L-shaped cross-section and possess grooves for the edges of a FlexyDisk, the elements being arranged in each container half. Consequently, the distance between the individual FlexyDisks in each half is greater than it would be if each of the halves formed a single container. The halves can be connected to one another by joints. This container is purely an archive container and, because of its many individual parts, is likewise expensive to produce.
Advantageously, the stacking means may be congruent projections and depressions which are arranged so that the first of the parts of the two base portions, when rotated through 180° in the horizontal plane with respect to the other part of the base portion and through a further 180° in the vertical plane and placed on top of the other part of the base portion, causes the individual stacking elements to interlock. This gives good stackability while allowing the production of identical parts of the base portion.
First, the carrier part 1 and 2 are inserted into the closure parts 3 and 4, the locking elements 5 and 6 engaging one another. The cover and box are thus complete. They are combined to form the container by rotating the upper half, which consists of parts 2 and 4, through 180° and placing it on top of the base portion or box, which consists of parts 1 and 3. The walls 9 and 9' are bent outwards so that they can overlap the projections 8 and 8'. When the carrier parts 1 and 2 lie firmly one on top of the other, the walls 9 and 9' are released so that the projections 8 and 8' engage, or snap into, their recesses 19 (FIG. 5). The container is thus closed. If necessary, the disks 16 are inserted, for example, into the carrier part 1 before the container is closed.
FIGS. 8 to 14 show a further embodiment of a container 20 according to the invention which possesses base portion parts 21 A and B, referred to below once again as carrier parts, and cover parts 22 A and B, referred to below once again as closure parts. The carrier parts 21 A and B are of the same form, which means that the two parts should be capable of being produced from the same molds, as in the case of the container of FIGS. 1 to 7 too. In one position (next to one another, facing in the same direction and with the same form in the vertical direction), the carrier parts 21 A and B are very similar or, in the limiting case, even identical. From the position described, for example, part 21 A can be rotated through 180° with respect to part 21 B and can be mounted on top of part 21 B by rotation through a further 180° in the vertical plane, producing the two-part base portion 21 which has the openings 35 and 36 above and below (FIG. 9). Associated with the carrier parts 21 A and B, or the base portion 21, are the closure parts 22 A and B, which, if necessary, may also be designed as two separate parts but together may form a single part, for example a first, common wall for closing both openings 35 and 36 and a connecting wall on only one side. The form of closure parts 22 A and B substantially corresponds to that of parts 3 and 4 in FIGS. 1 to 7, with the possible exception of a trapezoidal cross-sectional form instead of the triangular shape of the ribs 32 in FIG. 2. Parts which are substantially the same are also denoted by the same reference symbol below.
Relative to this position of carrier part 21 B, the carrier part 21 A must therefore first be rotated in the horizontal plane (at right angles to the plane of the drawing) and then in a vertical plane (in the plane of the drawing) in order to achieve an arrangement which permits the supporting parts 21 A and B to be combined. However, it is also possible to provide, to the right and left, a web 23 and a groove 24 parallel to one another so that the webs 23 and the grooves 24 are diagonally opposite one another. The rotations (through an angle of 180° in each case) are then likewise carried out as described above.
On its lower side, the carrier part 21 B has the opening 36, which is covered by the outer edge 26. The outer edge or the opening edge 26 is likewise provided with stacking means, which consist of contoured webs 27 and corresponding cut-outs 28. Carrier part 21 A has corresponding contoured webs 27 and cut-outs 28 on its upper side, in particular on the outer opening edge 26. After rotation through 180° in a horizontal plane, carrier part 21 B can be placed on top of carrier part 21 A. A plurality of base portions 21, consisting of the combined carrier parts 21 A and 21 B, can also be stacked vertically.
FIG. 8: Two almost completely identical container halves can be inserted one into the other after rotations through 180° and form a container together with two covers, which likewise are almost completely identical, for closing openings in the outer and front surfaces of the base portion and for locking all parts together. The container is used for packinging and/or transporting a number of disk-shaped articles.
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U.S. Classification 206/454, 206/711, G9B/33.014
International Classification G11B33/04, H01L21/673
Cooperative Classification H01L21/67386, G11B33/0444, H01L21/67369, H01L21/67379, H01L21/67383
European Classification G11B33/04D2B, H01L21/673K9, H01L21/673K6, H01L21/673K11, H01L21/673K10
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