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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1996
Scott M Johnson, Belmont, MA (US);
James T Schoonmaker, Brookline, MA (US);
Joshua M Kornfeld, Salem, NY (US);
Other;
Abstract
A storage and dispensing unit for a plurality of compact disks in their disk cases in the opened position, the unit including two side wall is that are connected to each other and spaced from each other by a distance greater than the case width, and a plurality of pairs of opposed rails extending toward each other from the side walls so that the inner edges of the rails are spaced from each other by less than the case width, the rails being spaced from adjacent rails on the side wall by a distance greater than the maximum case thickness, the side walls having a length of at least about twice the case width so that a case can be contained within the unit on a respective pair of rails with the case opened, and the base of the case can be extracted by sliding on the opposed rails to move the case to a disk extraction position in which the case base extends beyond the side walls and the disk is exposed to permit extraction of the disk from the case.