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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Caplan, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Charles E. Taylor, Sebastopol, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sharper Image Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47G 2/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47G 2/900 ;
Abstract
A motorized rack for holding the jewel cases or containers of CDs (or the CDs themselves) in a very compact manner includes a continuous loop formed of holders for the CD cases or other retainers which is driven by a pair of sprockets on which the holders are mounted for rotation. High density storage is provided by spacing the holders and their associated CD containers contiguously to one another and then removal is facilitated by allowing the holders and containers to fan out at the top the vertical tower for manual removal.