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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1997
Richard F House, St. Charles, IL (US);
Other;
Abstract
A package for holding compact disks includes a box having a front, a back, sides, and a window in the box front, a cover hingedly connected to the box and sized to close the window; a tray received in the box, and a plurality of sleeves received in the tray. The tray includes a bottom, a pair of opposed side members and a pair of opposed end members. The side and end members each including a leg extending upwardly from the tray bottom and a panel extending outwardly from a top edge of the leg. The legs of the end members and side members define a chamber and have a height substantially equal to the height of the sides of the box. The tray having a width and length substantially equal to the width and length of the box. The sleeves have a front and back defining a pocket sized to receive a compact disk, and a mounting strip hingedly connected to the sleeve along a bottom edge of the sleeve for mounting the sleeve to the bottom of the tray. The sleeves have a side-to-side width smaller than the side-to-side width of the box window. Each sleeve is movable between a reclined position in which a top edge of the sleeve is parallel to, or below, the box front and an upright position in which a top edge of the sleeve extends through the box window; the sleeves being moved to the reclined position when the cover is closed.