Apparatus for manufacturing disc record package

Apparatus for fabricating a U-shaped enclosure from a substantially rigid and flat plastic sheet comprising a narrow intermediate section interposed between a pair of panel portions;

• said apparatus including:
• (A) a housing;
• (B) a pair of substantially rigid and planar folding plates pivotally mounted to said housing about the respective one of a pair of spaced axes for motion between a spreadout position where said plates are substantially coplanar, and a folded-up position where said plates are juxtaposed to each other;
• said spreadout coplanar plates supporting said substantially rigid and flat plastic sheet;
• said folded-up juxtaposed plates defining a space corresponding to the exterior surfaces of said U-shaped enclosure;
• (C) a substantially rigid and planar spacer plate being centrally mounted in said space;
• the exterior surfaces of said spacer plate defining the interior surfaces of said U-shaped enclosure;
• (D) means for selectively heating the narrow intermediate section of said flat plastic sheet laid on said spreadout plates to make said intermediate section pliable;
• and
• (E) means for folding said plates to cause the panel portions of said flat plastic sheet to bend about said heated pliable intermediate section to form said U-shaped enclosure about said centrally-mounted spacer plate.