Patent ID: 7225921

Claim:
A case for receiving at least one data storage disk, said case comprising: two cover members and a base; said base having a substantially flat rectangular bottom plate having a top and a bottom with two side walls and two end walls all projecting upwardly from said bottom plate and connected to lateral edges of said bottom plate; each of said two side walls is topped with a pair of first rail segments, a pair of second rail segments and a third rail segment; said pair of first rail segments having a height greater than said pair of second rail segments and said third rail segment; each of said pair of first rail segments begin at the corners formed between one of said two end walls and a corresponding one of said two side walls; each of said pair of second rail segments beginning at an end of a corresponding one of said pair of first rail segments and continuing to a corresponding end of the third rail segment, wherein the third rail segment is between said pair of second rail segments; each of the cover members carried by the base at the said top side thereof; each of said cover members having a substantially flat rectangular top plate having a top and a bottom with lateral edges, two side walls and one end wall connected to said lateral edges of said top plate, the two side walls and one end wall projecting downward; each of said cover members having an edge, each edge facing the other; cooperable slide mounting means on said base and each of said cover members, mounting each of said cover members for movement in a plane which is common to each of said cover members, said mounting means enabling said one cover member to be moved toward and away from a remaining cover member; portions of one said edge of said one cover member overlying the disk when said cover members are closest to each other, thereby holding captive the disk that may have been previously inserted in the base.