Special receptacle or package – For plate or sheet – Fragile or sensitive
Patent
1988-06-07
1991-04-16
Gehman, Bryon P.
Special receptacle or package
For plate or sheet
Fragile or sensitive
40156, 229 9, 229 19, 229162, 206232, B65D 8548
Patent
active
050075373
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to the field of photography, and in particular to the field of storing and display of photographic prints.
Some photofinishing laboratories or photograph printers deliver prints ("positives") drawn from a customer's film after development thereof in cassettes, hereinunder referred to as photoprint cassettes. Such cassettes are designed to accommodate all prints taken from a standard size roll of film, e.g. forty prints. Some types of photoprint cassettes are suited also to serve as a frame to display one of the prints housed therein, and for this purpose, a transparent window is provided in one of two substantially parallel side walls. An example of such a cassette is disclosed in PCT INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION number WO 86/03021.
Such photoprint cassettes may be used instead of albums for storing the prints, and for this purpose, such cassettes may be stacked. However, it is not really convenient to remove a particular cassette from such a stack. It would be more convenient to arrange the cassettes in the manner in which books ordinarily are stored on a shelf or the like, i.e. with one the narrow walls supported. A row on a shelf formed by a plurality of cassettes, however, would be unstable, with the risk of damage, and particularly with the risk that the transparent windows of the cassettes might become scratched.
Photograph printers, of course, deliver to their customers not only the prints but also the developed film ("negatives"), and usually this is done in a paper bag. The customer has the additional problem of storing his negatives such that he may conveniently locate a particular frame of which he wants to get additional prints. An approach to solve this problem in connection with photoprint cassettes is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,443,959: A photo archive comprises a number of print cassettes stacked to form a pile, and a lowermost cassette in the pile is designed to accommodate negative strips instead of prints.
The present invention addresses the problems mentioned above in another manner. Each cassette is provided with a sleeve which is of substantially cuboid shape so that the sleeve may stand on a shelf independent of lateral support, and in addition, each sleeve is provided with means to hold a paper bag, i.e. the bag in which the negative strip had been delivered. In this manner, the user has immediate access to negatives belonging to the prints in the respective cassette, and a plurality of such modules--each comprising a sleeve, a cassette and a negative paper bag--make up a perfectly organized archive.
It is to be noted that the sleeve may carry a label on which the user may indicate the contents of the respective cassette so that the latter remains clean and feasible as an attractive frame hung on a wall or disposed on a table.
Embodiments of the invention are illustrated in the attached drawings and will be explained in detail hereunder.
FIG. 1 is a plan view of a box-board blank from which a sleeve according to the invention is folded,
FIG. 2 illustrates a semi-finished sleeve produced from the blank shown in FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is an isometric view of the sleeve when ready,
FIG. 4 is a plan view of a box-board blank for a sleeve of modified design,
FIG. 5 illustrates the semi-finished status of the modified sleeve,
FIG. 6 is a longitudinal section of a third embodiment,
FIG. 7 is a partial isometric view thereof, and
FIG. 8 is an isometric view of a fourth embodiment.
The blank shown in FIG. 1 is made of box-board provided, on one of its faces, with a smooth surface; the board may be coated, laminated or treated otherwise to obtain the desired smoothness. It is, alternatively, also possible to use plastic material, e.g. a film made of polypropylene or polyvinyl chloride. In FIG. 1, the non-treated (rough) face of the material is shown. The cut-out contour is illustrated by solid lines, dashed lines indicate folding lines, and a dash-dotted line is a center line.
The blank comprises a rear wall portion 10 connected, by folding lines 12, to outer side wall po
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Gehman Bryon P.
Ingerman Jeffrey H.
Licinvest AG
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