Special receptacle or package – For holding a machine readable recording medium – For holding a grooved phonograph disc
Reexamination Certificate
2002-11-05
2004-09-14
Mohandesi, Jila M. (Department: 3728)
Special receptacle or package
For holding a machine readable recording medium
For holding a grooved phonograph disc
C206S303000, C206S308100, C211S040000, C211S194000, C211S041120
Reexamination Certificate
active
06789668
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a compact disc (CD) container, and more particularly to a CD container allowing quick access to a desired CD stored therein and convenient removal of the same from the CD container.
Computers have been widely employed to handle various kinds of works from word processing to multimedia functions due to their increasingly enhanced ability in processing digital data. In keeping a large amount of backup files, compact discs have gradually replaced the conventional magnetic disks as a storing medium. A type of currently most popular compact disc, namely, CD-R, has a storage capacity as high as 850 MB. Nevertheless, computer users often require several decades of compact disks to store and/or backup data. Moreover, compact disks for storing multimedia data, such as video CD and game CD, are usually sold in one full set of several pieces. Consumers have to prepare a convenient CD container or CD rack for well keeping these compact disks as a whole.
FIGS. 1 and 2
are exploded and assembled perspective views, respectively, of a conventional CD container
1
in the shape of a hollow cylinder, and includes a base
11
and a cylindrical cover
12
. The base
11
includes an upright bar
111
vertically projected from a top center of the base
11
for supporting a plurality of compact disks
2
stacked on the base
11
and preventing the compact disks
2
from undesired radial movement relative to the CD container
1
. The cylindrical cover
12
is closed onto the base
11
to protect the compact disks
2
supported on the bar
111
against dust. While the above-described CD container
1
has simple structure to save a lot of room that is otherwise occupied by extra and unnecessary packages, it has the following disadvantages:
1. It can be positioned in only one single manner. Since the compact disks
2
are stacked on the base
11
in the CD container
1
by serially putting them around the upright bar
111
, the upright bar
111
is the only member for supporting the compact disks
2
and preventing the same from displacement in the CD container
1
. This structure does not permit the CD container
1
to be horizontally positioned, because the bar
111
having only one end fixed to the base
11
and in a horizontal position is not strong enough to bear a total weight of the compact disks
2
supported thereon.
2. It is uneasy to remove a target compact disk
2
from the CD container
1
. When it is desired to get a target compact disk
2
located at lower or middle portion of the serially stacked compact disks
2
, a user must first remove all the compact disks
2
above the target disk
2
from the bar
111
and then replaces the removed compact disks
2
one by one after the target disk
2
has been moved out of the container
1
. It takes quite a long time for a user to get a target disk
2
that is located close to the bottom of the CD container
1
and to replace all the compact disks
2
previously removed from the upright bar
111
. Moreover, it is uneasy to conveniently search for a desired compact disk
2
when all the compact disks
2
are vertically serially stacked on the base
11
.
It is therefore tried by the inventor to develop an improved CD container to overcome the disadvantages existed in the conventional CD container
1
and enable convenient search and quick removal of a target compact disk from the CD container.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A primary object of the present invention is to provide a CD container that enables convenient search and quick removal of a target compact disk from the CD container. To achieve the above and other objects, the CD container of the present invention mainly includes a base having a central bar to support a plurality of compact disks serially stacked on the base, a cylindrical cover having a diameter slightly smaller than that of the base and a central sleeve downward extended from a closed top of the cover, first connecting means including a horizontal bar and a vertical bar connected to each other at one end thereof, and second connecting means including a horizontal tube and a vertical tube connected to each other at one end thereof. By connecting the vertical tube of the second connecting means to the central bar of the base, the horizontal tube to the horizontal bar, and the vertical bar of the first connecting means to the central sleeve of the cylindrical cover laid in a reversed position, compact disks stacked on the base may be shifted along the connected second and first connecting means to the reversed cylindrical cover, and a desired compact disk may be quickly located and removed from the container by disengaging the first from the second connecting means or the vertical tube of the second connecting means from the central bar of the base.
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