Patent ID: 8763801

Claim:
A disk storage system for disks of the type having a central opening, the storage system comprising: (a) a storage container comprising a pair of main panel portions hingedly connected together and a spaced pair of hinge pedestals, the storage container having open and closed conditions; (b) first and second adjacent disk trays, each disk tray comprising: (i) a tray panel portion having a hub for holding one of the disks; (ii) a tab portion directly hingedly connected to the tray panel portion on a hinge axis; (iii) a tab cavity in the tray panel sized for receiving a tab portion of an adjacent disk tray; and (iv) a tab storage cavity proximate the hinge axis sized for receiving a portion of the tab portion of the same tray in a storage position; wherein the tab portion of the first tray is received into the tab cavity of the second tray for hingedly connecting the first and second disk trays on the hinge axis of the first tray and pivotable about that hinge axis from an open, coplanar condition to a closed facing condition; and wherein the tab portion of the second tray is in the second tray tab storage cavity; and (c) a pair of axle members supported by at least one of the disk trays, each axle member having a shaft portion engaging respective ones of the hinge pedestals for pivotable support of the set of disk trays, wherein, the container in the closed condition encloses the disk trays.