Special receptacle or package – For holding a machine readable recording medium – For holding an optical disc
Reexamination Certificate
2001-09-14
2003-09-02
Bui, Luan K. (Department: 3728)
Special receptacle or package
For holding a machine readable recording medium
For holding an optical disc
C206S312000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06612433
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to the storage of compact disks used in computers and audio and visual entertainment systems. More particularly it relates to improvement of the containment, personalization, transportation, computer enhancement and storage method used to retain a digital compact disk, known and related to further in this disclosure as CD's, through the placement of a target grid for folds on paper allowing individual assembling of personalized CD containers from single, uncut sheets of conventional or custom dimensioned paper.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The digital compact disc, or CD, now commonplace in stereos and computers, was introduced in 1982 for digital and audio reproduction. Formally known as compact disc read-only memory, it is a form of a compact disc that reads by optical means. The CD-ROM drive uses a low-power laser beam to read digitized (binary) data that has been encoded in the form of tiny pits on an optical disc. The drive then feeds the data to the computer for processing. Co-invented by Philips Electronics N.V. and Sony Corporation in 1980, the compact disc has expanded beyond audio recordings into other storage-and-distribution uses, notably for computers (CD-ROM) and entertainment systems (videodisc). The compact disc comprises a thin polymeric circular member approximately 4¾ inches (12 centimeters) in diameter and having a central aperture to be received on the spindle or centering mechanism of a CD disc player. With the proliferation of growing multimedia files (i.e., audio, graphic, and video) in computer games, educational software, and electronic encyclopedias, as well as high definition movies and the ever expanding storage medium, digital videodiscs (DVD), introduced in 1995, the average computer users are acquiring a large number of CD's.
Shortly after the advent of the compact disc the conventional “jewel box” packaging container was adapted for sales and storage. These polymeric containers hinge on one side opening to access the internal compartment housing the CD disc, and are susceptible to cracking, and breakage of the hinges. Additionally, the over-all thickness of 0.3125 inch of the container, is far greater than necessary for the protection of the disc, making the storage of multiple discs unduly wasteful of space. There has been little or no change in the basic shape of the CD holder since its initial development. Other storing methods include modified envelopes, which may be purchased from an office supply, but have no method of personalization or computer enhancement such as printing upon them using a conventional printer.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,694,954 of Ira. Moss discloses an article of manufacture comprising a compact disc and convertible package thereof. The device comprises a blank, divided into four panel members by cruciform pairs of parallel intersecting fold lines. A flap portion is formed adjacent to a surface of at least one of said panels and the compact disc is received between the flap and panel. The device may be converted to the storage mode by removing the film, discarding the stiffener member, and folding the panels about the cruciform fold lines to provide a structure in which the disc is encompassed between four thicknesses of material. Tendencies of the device to buckle of expand when in the storage mode are minimized by removing the portion of the blank that encompasses the intersection of the hinge lines, and by connecting the flap to one of the panels in a tension condition. This is primarily a sales and promotional device, providing the durability required to protect the CD, with the limited capability of being modified for a storage container. It still remains a stiff polymer packaging device, with more than the necessary thickness required for storing compact discs and lacks the ability for computerized personalization.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,203,521 of Stanley A. Dunn teaches of a packet for containing documents and for providing thermal protection of those documents, the packet including a sacrificial ablating layer surrounding the documents, and a metal foil covering for shielding the ablating layer from contact with surrounding air. This is a packet for providing thermal protection for documents, with no indication of the light, thin storage of compact discs.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,004,144 of Betty J. Selga describes a reusable gift-wrapping comprised of a flexible expanse of folding fabric having releasable Velcro fasteners secured to its periphery. The Velcro fasteners are engaged when the fabric is folded to envelop a carton placed within the expanse of foldable fabric. This is clearly a process of gift wrapping not relating in any way to compact disc storage.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,117,061 of Ghanshyam H. Pompat et al, discloses a method for custom printing and forming three-dimensional structures using a computer and a computer-controlled printer, incorporating several steps. A flexible rectangular sheet is perforated to form a removable portion. Lines of weakness are formed on the removable portion, to serve as fold lines that ultimately fold the two-dimensional removable portion into a three-dimensional structure. A user instructs a computer program to command a computer-controlled printer to print particular information onto the printing surface of said removable portion. After printing, the user removes the removable portion from the sheet along the perforations and then folds the removable portion along the lines of weakness and secures the folded sheet into a three-dimensional structure. The computer program enables the user to design the custom printing for the structure, and optionally to preview the ultimate appearance of the three-dimensional structure. With this invention a computer is used to create a three-dimensional object to be cut or removed from a single sheet of paper, by the means of cutting on computer generated lines or pre-applied scoring or perforations in the paper. When paper is put through two separate devices as in a scoring or perforating device, and then into a computer by an amateur or a person unskilled in the act of publishing, there may be some alignment problems. Although this object is created from a single sheet of computer paper, there is an involved cutting or separating process along with attaching the parts, and it does not relate to the packaging or storing of computer compact discs.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,590,912 of Scott A. Stevens describes a product and method relating to a personalized envelope assembly secured to the interior of a printed publication such as a magazine, and more particularly to the means and method for binding in the envelope assembly to a personalized and/or customized publication and containing an information bearing disc. This patent primarily deals with the insertion of an envelope into a publication along with the binding methods, not relating in anyway to the personalized unique formation, storage and containment of compact discs constructed from a single sheet of uncut computer conventional or custom sized paper disclosed herein.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,638,666 of Gil Davidov discloses an invention directed to an apparatus and method for making an envelope from ordinary size, readily available, writing paper. Preferably, the apparatus is a compact desktop size machine that can be combined with any common office printer, such as a laser printer, or even incorporated therein, to form a single machine. This patent describes a machine for making a mailing envelope from a single sheet of paper, not conveniently adapted to the unique shape of a computer disc, where the disclosed invention requires the unique use of diagonal folds to adequately enclose the compact disc.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,006,457 of Felix Transport teaches of collapsible three-dimensional hollow ornamental structures. A polyhedral shaped, collapsible hollow structure having a fully enclosed hollow interior that is made from a blank cut from a single sheet of folding board or like sheet material, the blank having a dual cruciform configuration and being provided wi
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