Modular storage rack
AssigneeRTC Industries, Inc.
InventorStephen N. Hardy
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Abstract
A modular storage rack for CD jewel boxes, or the like, comprising individual tray units that are stackable vertically and connectable laterally. The tray itself has no moving parts but only a ribbon spring which acts to both secure the jewel box when inserted and eject the same when retrieval is desired. Release of the jewel box is obtained by inward pressure against the spring and rotation of the box about a fulcrum on one of the tray walls, permitting the spring to urge the box out of the tray.
Claims16
A modular storage rack for storing a plurality of objects such as compact disc boxes, tape cassettes or the like comprising:
- a plurality of individual storage units, each unit being adapted to retain one of said objects therein;
- modular means on said storage unit cooperable for frictionally engaging and stacking one unit above another;
- resilient means in said storage unit cooperable with a first edge of an inserted object for locking and retaining said object in its unit;
- and
- fulcrum means in said storage unit cooperable with a retained object for rotating said object responsive to inward pressure applied to said object whereby said resilient means urges said object from the storage unit.
A tray for releasably storing a rectangular object such as a compact disc box, tape cassette or the like comprising:
- a bottom wall, a rear wall, a pair of side walls and a short, front wall fragment projecting from one of said side walls, the distance between said side walls being slightly greater than the width of the object to be stored whereby said object is insertable into the tray through the front thereof;
- resilient means associated with said rear wall and cooperable with the leading edge of said object for securing and releasing the object;
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- pivot means in said tray cooperable with at least one edge of the object for releasing the object from the tray through the front thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.