Patent ReferencesStorage case for compact discs CD-cassette with holder Storage container for recorded media Disc storage container Patent #: 6364107 InventorsApplicationNo. 912138 filed on 07/24/2001US Classes:206/308.1, For holding an optical disc (e.g., compact disc)206/310, Including spindlelike retainer206/493RETAINER ENTERS OPENING IN ARTICLEExaminersPrimary: Luong, ShianAttorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassB65D 085/57AbstractA storage case for protectively containing media discs, such as DVD's and CD's, provides a disc holder for releasably holding the media discs in the interior of the case between top and bottom hinged cover members. The disc holder includes a centrally disposed disc retainer having flexible fingers with barbed distal ends for engaging the upper surface of the media disc proximate a central opening thereof. Arm members extend between the fingers and a pair of diametrically opposed tabs, wherein application of a radially inward directed force to the tabs, using the thumb and one other finger of the same hand, serves to urge the fingers to a compressed position so that the barbed distal ends are freed from the disc. Sloped shoulders at the juncture of the arm members and the respective pair of tabs urge the disc upwardly and into the grasp of the user's thumb and other finger, upon application of the radially inward directed force to the tabs, thereby releasing the disc from the holder and directly into the grasp of the user with the use of just two fingers of one hand. | |