Compact disc package

Details Compact disc package Compact disc package

1992-01-31

1993-08-17

Foster, Jimmy G.

Special receptacle or package

Embroidery, lace, or ruching

206310, 206313, 493100, B65D 8557

Patent

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052360814

ABSTRACT:
A CD package is provided, including a pivotable CD holder and a foldable cardboard cover. The holder includes a square central panel and two side, substantially rectangular profile "flip" panels each with a substantially semicircular cutout corresponding to half of a CD. The cover includes four portions separated by strips, each portion foldable relative to each other, and a plurality of cutouts to temporarily receive projections formed on the underside of the holder. The cover is slidably received within clasps, also formed on the underside of the holder. The flip panels are pivoted, coplanar to the central panel to create a retail configuration, with two portions of the cover extending over each of the front and back, respectively, of the holder. The cover and holder are then shrink wrapped together. This retail configuration forms a rigid "long box" since the holder spans cover strips. The consumer removes the shrink wrap, unfolds the cover and removes the CD. In order to store the CD, the CD is replaced in the holder, the flip panels are pivoted on top of the central panel, the holder is moved upward slightly and longitudinally along the cover to be bordered by two strips and the remaining portions of the cover are folded over the CD holder, thereby forming a compact CD package.

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"Music Firms Try Out `Green` CD Boxes", Meg Cox The Wall Street Journal, Jul. 25, 1991.
The New York Times, article entitled "Smaller CD Boxes Promised Amid Clamor About Waste", Feb. 28, 1992.
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