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Storage case for DVD's and compact discs

Patent 6454091 Issued on September 24, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject July 24, 2021. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

Storage case for compact discs
Patent #: 5505299
Issued on: 04/09/1996
Inventor: Ditzig, et al.

CD-cassette with holder
Patent #: 5938020
Issued on: 08/17/1999
Inventor: Luckow

Storage container for recorded media
Patent #: 6196384
Issued on: 03/06/2001
Inventor: Belden, Jr.

Disc storage container Patent #: 6364107
Issued on: 04/02/2002
Inventor: Flores, Jr., et al.

Inventors

Application

No. 912138 filed on 07/24/2001

US Classes:

206/308.1, For holding an optical disc (e.g., compact disc)206/310, Including spindlelike retainer206/493RETAINER ENTERS OPENING IN ARTICLE

Examiners

Primary: Luong, Shian

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

B65D 085/57

Abstract

A 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.

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