Storage and display rack for packaged collectibles
OwnerRay Bartley, Ken Breitinventors
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Abstract
A storage device for packaged collectibles permits a plurality of collectibles, pre-packaged within a clear acrylic envelope or blister and secured to an elongated, thin cardboard backing, to be stored and displayed in a secure manner within a plurality of elongate, vertically oriented, open-ended retaining channels. The retaining channels provide for the easy insertion and removal of the collectible from either end of the channel and allows at least three collectibles and their manufacturers packaging to be retained therein solely by friction.
Claims11
A storage and display rack for storing and displaying a package having a flexible backing member and wherein the backing member has a thickness, a height, and a width, and wherein a package compartment is mounted onto the backing member so that an upper surface of the packaging compartment adjacent the backing member is a first length from the lower edge of the backing member and wherein the packaging compartment has compartment width,
- said rack comprising:
- a pair of rails for mounting to a plate in laterally spaced apart, parallel, vertically extending array wherein each rail of said pair of rails has an elongate flange extending along the length of said rail so that the shape of said rail in lateral cross section defines an elongate groove extending along said length of said rail between said flange and the plate when said rail is mounted to the plate,
- and wherein said flange is a stand-off distance from the plate when said rail is mounted to the plate so that said groove has a corresponding stand-off dimension between said flange and said plate, and wherein said flanges on said pair of rails are opposed facing so that said grooves form an opposed facing pair of grooves when said pair of rails are mounted to the plate,
- wherein said rails for mounting to the plate are laterally spaced apart so that the width of the backing member fits in sliding engagements snugly within, so as to extend between, said grooves when said rails are mounted to the plate,
- and wherein said stand off distance is a multiple of the thickness of the backing member so that exactly a plurality of the thicknesses of the backing member slide in snug frictional engagement within said grooves between said flanges and the plate when said pair of rails are mounted to the plate,
- and wherein the number of the plurality of said thicknesses is equal to number of the backing members which, when stacked overlaying one another will snugly fit within said stand off distance of said grooves between said flanges and the plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.