Package assembly for keeping, storing, displaying and handling d

Details Package assembly for keeping, storing, displaying and handling d Package assembly for keeping, storing, displaying and handling d

1999-03-15

2000-03-07

Sewell, Paul T.

Special receptacle or package

For holding a machine readable recording medium

For holding a grooved phonograph disc

2063081, 206232, B65D 8557

Patent

active

060327952

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF INVENTION

The present invention relates to a package assembly for keeping, storing, displaying and handling disc-shaped products, such as compact discs and the like, wherein the assembly is comprised of a sleeve or pocket that is produced by folding and/or gluing a first paperboard or cardboard-like blank, and a slide or tray which is intended to removably receive at least one disc-shaped product and which is produced by folding and/or gluing a second paperboard or cardboard-like blank, wherein the sleeve has an opening through which the product-carrying slide can be inserted and withdrawn, wherein the slide includes product-constraining means, and wherein the sleeve and the slide include mutually coacting means which function to maximize the extent to which the slide can be withdrawn from the sleeve for the removal and insertion of a product into the space intended therefor.


BACKGROUND IF THE INVENTION

U.S. Pat. No. 5,421,452 teaches a case of the kind defined in the preamble of the main claim. This known case includes a product-carrying tray or slide that can be inserted into a sleeve or pocket section. The extent to which the slide can be withdrawn from the sleeve is restricted by mutually coacting stop members on the slide and the sleeve. Both the construction and the use of this known case have disadvantages. In order to enable a package assembly to be mass-produced at favourable costs, it is necessary to be able to produce the component parts of the assembly in an automatic machine as far as possible. The known assembly has a complex construction and the production costs of each assembly are apparently very high. Certain drawbacks are also revealed when using the known disc assembly. Normal handling of a package assembly of this kind involves the user gripping the assembly between the thumb and index finger of one hand while pressing towards respective opposing side edges of the assembly and holding the assembly firmly while withdrawing the slide from the sleeve with the other hand. The grip between thumb and index finger causes the sleeve to flex outwards towards the surface that faces towards the viewer, thereby causing side flaps on the slide to slip over and past the stop members on the sleeve, such as to allow the slide to be withrawn beyond its intended limit. If the disc assembly is held in a position other than flat, there is also the danger that the product will fall out of the sleeve/slide and be damaged in the process. The slide of the known package assembly can only accommodate one product, and hence that part of the assembly sleeve that functions as a lid is configured as a pocket in which printed information can be stored, for instance.
The sleeve is provided with a cover flap which is folded into abutment with another sleeve surface. Because of the inherent resiliency of the material used, the cover flap tends to spring out and therewith make it difficult to store the package assembly, unless the cover flap is secured to another sleeve surface in some way or another.


SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a package assembly of the kind defined in the introduction and having the features set forth in the characterizing clause of claim 1.
A package assembly of this kind has many advantages in relation to known package assemblies. For instance, the slide partition panel formed by the bottom part of the blank enables two products to be placed in the slide while mutually separated by said partition panel. The flap that is formed partially from the partition panel functions as a bottom abutment for products that are placed on respective sides of said partition wall. When folded, i.e. when extending the slide upwards along the surface of the partition wall that faces towards the viewer, the bottom of the flap will be present on both sides of the partition wall. Because the flap strives to lie against the internal surface of the sleeve that faces towards the viewer and also functions as that part of the slide which coacts with means bent in the upper sleeve p

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patent: 5421452 (1995-06-01), Hybiske
patent: 5655656 (1997-08-01), Gottlieb
patent: 5715970 (1998-02-01), LeMaitre
patent: 5823333 (1998-10-01), Mori

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