US 5,392,913 AGranted

Storage holder device

OwnerWilliam Merrickinventor

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Abstract

A storage holder for computer disks, CDs, records, tape cassettes and the like is formed of a single unitary piece of molded plastic. The holder itself has a rectangular main body. A projecting shelf is located adjacent the bottom of the main body, with a pair of spaced-apart resilient fingers biased inwardly toward the main body member. First and second guides, in the form of raised ribs, pins or flanges, extend along at least a portion of each of the sides of the storage holder; so that when a relatively thin flat object, such as a computer disk, CD or the like, is placed in the storage holder, the resilient fingers bias it against the main body. The shelf at the bottom supports the bottom of the object being stored, and the ribs along the sides provide lateral support. An object, such as a computer disk, CD or the like, readily may be inserted into the storage holder and removed therefrom. A provision is made at the bottom of the storage holder for facilitating pivotal mounting of the storage holder in a container, along with other storage holders.

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Dependent claims

A storage holder for storing relatively thin, flat objects including in combination:

a main rigid body member having a generally rectangular configuration with a top, bottom, first and second sides, and front and rear faces, with the distances between the top and bottom and between the first and second sides selected to be greater than the corresponding dimensions of an object to be stored in said storage holder;
first and second resilient spaced-apart object holding fingers attached to said main body member at said first and second sides thereof, respectively, and spaced from the front face of said main body member by a distance which is less than the thickness of an object to be stored in said storage holder, and extending over said front face at said first and second sides only thereof to resiliently engage an object stored in said main body member to press said object against said front face of said body member;
said first and second resilient fingers each having guide pins on outer edges thereof aligned with said first and second guide members and extending toward said front face of said main body member for engaging the opposite sides of an object stored in said storage holder;
a projection at the bottom of said main body member extending substantially perpendicularly outwardly from the front face thereof to support an object stored in said storage holder, said projection comprising a shelf extending across the bottom of said main body member between said first and second sides thereof;
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first and second guide members on said first and second sides of said main body member for engaging the corresponding sides of an object stored in said storage holder.

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