Storage case

Details Storage case Storage case

2001-08-27

2003-12-30

Ackun, Jacob K. (Department: 3712)

Special receptacle or package

Convertible to or from display configuration

Having content positioning means

C206S307000, C220S815000, C220S832000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06669023

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a storage case preferably employed for storing information-storage medium (hereinafter, it is called a disc) such as a magnetic disc and an optical disc.
FIGS. 19 and 20
show a known disc storage case
101
for storing a plurality of discs. This disc storage case
101
comprises a case main body
107
, a cover
108
for opening and closing an opening of the case main body
107
and a rotating means
109
for rotatably installing the cover
108
to the case main body
107
. The case main body
107
comprises a bottom plate
102
, and front, back, right side and left side plates
103
,
104
,
105
and
106
which are provided at four sides of the bottom plate
102
so as to surround the bottom plate
102
.
As shown in
FIG. 21
, the rotating means
109
comprises a rotation shaft
110
installed to the case main body
107
and a bearing portion installed to the cover
108
. The rotation shaft
110
is formed into a cylindrical shape. The bearing portion
111
is also formed into a cylindrical shape which is larger in diameter than that of the rotation shaft
110
. The cover
108
is arranged so as to be rotated from a closed condition by 180° and to be put in an open condition shown in FIG.
20
.
However, this conventional storage case
101
has the following problems:
(1) When the cover
108
is put in the open condition, a gravity point of the storage case
101
is moved. This puts the storage case
101
into an unstable state that the storage case
101
tends to fall down. Further a width W
1
of the storage case
101
in the cover open condition becomes twice the width W2 of the storage case in a cover closed condition (W1=2×W2), and therefore the storage case restricted in space.
(2) When a lot of discs
201
are stored in the case main body
107
, it is difficult to pull out the disc
201
from the case main body
107
, due to.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a storage case which solves the above problems by arranging so as to be able to move a cover uprightly to a back of a case main body and to tilt a front plate of the case main body forward.
A storage case according to the present invention comprises a case main body, a cover and a rotating means. The case main body comprises a bottom plate, a front plate, a back plate, a right plate and a left plate, the front, back, right and left plates being arranged so as to surround four sides of the bottom plate, the case main body having an opening opposite to the bottom plate. The cover is installed to the case main body so as to open and close the opening of the case main body. The rotating means rotatably installs the cover to the case main body. The rotating means comprises a rotation shaft installed to the cover and a bearing portion installed to the case main body, the bearing portion being formed into a elongate groove extending in a vertical direction of the case main body.


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patent: 5411134 (1995-05-01), Temple et al.
patent: 6129237 (2000-10-01), Miyahara

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