Special receptacle or package – For holding a machine readable recording medium – For holding a grooved phonograph disc
Patent
1990-01-29
1992-02-25
Foster, Jimmy G.
Special receptacle or package
For holding a machine readable recording medium
For holding a grooved phonograph disc
206425, 211 40, 211 71, B65D 8557, A47F 500
Patent
active
050905600
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a device for accommodating and displaying flat blister packs with articles packed therein, particularly compact discs (CD), having a supporting base for supporting the blister packs in a substantially upright position.
From EP-A-155 258 and WO86/03327 are known devices for accommodating and displaying rigid flat articles, particularly CD cassettes aligned in rows one behind the other and adapted to be turned over like papers in a file cabinet. The articles are held each in slanted position only in their lower area, and for such purpose spaced bars are provided (EP-A-155 258) or base slots (WO86/03327). In the case of CD discs, these known devices are usually so inserted that empty CD cassettes, so-called "containers" are kept in the device and displayed, while the content, i.e., the discs themselves are separately therefrom kept at another place and only in the case of sale are transferred to the container at the there provided snap holder. This prevents theft, which otherwise would be easy due to the relatively small size of the CD cassettes. But keeping the containers and discs separately involves a considerable expense.
It has been also proposed (see DE-U-B502795) to provide CD cassettes, i.e. containers with discs in oversize bulky packs shaped as an elongated rectangular slip-in box; the CD cassette in an open, flatly spread condition is slid into the box and is there secured against unauthorized extraction by a springy snap extension. At the moment of sale, the CD discs are released and taken out from this pack by means of an available to the attendants special tool which unlocks the snap extensions. The packs are designed as hangers in the art similar to blister packs, and for such purpose they are provided on the upper side with a suspension opening in a strap-like suspension extension. Besides, these known hangers are of substantially constant thickness over their height. Although the oversize of these known hangers provides a satisfactory protection against stealing since they cannot be readily inserted into a pocket or the like, they are rather expensive to manufacture. In addition, as mentioned, their purpose is to be kept in suspended condition on a bar-shaped support or the like, which makes hardly possible an effective presentation, such as in devices of EP-A-155 258 or WO86/03327.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,593,927 shows another kind of device, possibly for keeping round records which stand on ledgers disposed inside a small box; the records are laterally held at about middle height by rhombic-shaped openings in an upper cover narrowing the side area to the ends. There is also known from French Patent 1 438 550 a trough-shaped accommodation device with side guide or holding slots made of grooved carton cut for disc-shaped articles, the slots being located in slanted side walls and reaching the base, but not extending there. The accommodation device of EP-A-190 546 has separate trough or pocket-shaped holders with the lower edge of plug feet in a kind of snap connection being pivotably disposed in an accommodation device; support noses abutting an edge of the accommodation body are provided in the pivotable holders at about half height for the additional support and for limiting the pivoting or determining the pivotable positions. The articles to be accommodated (packed) are then disposed in these pivotable holders. It is seen that all the above mentioned devices are of an expensive structure and/or are unsuitable for an effective presentation of the articles.
Finally, form German 2 854 366 is known a display device for small articles in cassettes, which one next to the other with a thin foot are inserted and locked in a longitudinally upwardly open slot of a profile rail which functions as a supporting part. But the cassettes are held stationary in their vertical position in the profile rail, so that, apart from structural disadvantages, as above mentioned, turning one after another is impossible.
The object of the invention is to provide a device of the above described kind f
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Foster Jimmy G.
Lift Verkaufsgerate-Gesellschaft m.b.H.
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