Disc carrier

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B - Operations, Transporting

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B65D 85/57 (2006.01) G11B 23/03 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2165096

While the most popular currently available compact disc carriers are structurally simple, they are lacking in several areas. Such carriers are often difficult to open, they are fragile and thus easily broken, and they are usually stored vertically on edge so that the labels on the spines are difficult to read, and provide no indication of whether a disc is present in the carrier. A compact disc carrier, which deals with these shortcomings, includes a sleeve-like container defined by a top wall, side walls and tracks at the bottom ends of the side walls; and a tray defined by a bottom wall slidable in the tracks, a first pair of ledges on posts at the rear of the tray for supporting the rear edge of a disc, and a second pair of ledges on spring arms near the front of the tray for supporting the front edge of the disc. When a disc is placed on the ledges, the spring arms flex outwardly slightly, and when the tray is slid into the container, the spring arms are bent by the sides of the container, whereby, when the tray is fully inserted into the container, tabs on the free ends of the arms spring outwardly through slots in the sides of the container to provide a visual indication that a disc is present in the carrier. If no disc is present, the tabs remain in the container. Detents are provided on the bottom ends of the container side walls for engaging apertures in the top wall of a subjacent container so that carriers can be stacked horizontally, and will remain releasably latched together.

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