CD holder for CD jewel box
OwnerAllen Schlugerinventor
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Abstract
An assemblage of a "jewel box"-packaged CD and a point-of-sales cardboard holder in the use of which holder a CD replicator loads the CD through a front opening into an internal box-like configuration having an interposed position between an external book-like configuration, and wherein both mentioned configuration components of the holder are adapted to advantageously be shipped flat to the replicator's facility to facilitate transportation and storage handling, and wherein further the flat condition is the result of not closing a rear opening of the box-like configuration which has no adverse consequence because a spine means of the book-like configuration serves as a closure for this rear opening when used in its intended book mode.
Claims3
Improvements for a point-of-sales displayed commercially packaged CD at a site of use of a type having a combined outer book-like construction providing product information and said commercially packaged CD in inserted relation within said book-like construction, said improvements comprising said outer book-like construction consisting of a front cover and a rear cover having a spine panel connected therebetween operatively effective to allow the folding thereof from a flat configuration into a book-like configuration, and a box-like construction consisting of a front panel and a rear panel interconnected by top and by bottom panels foldable into a flat configuration with said front and rear panels in contacting relation with each other and foldable into a box-like configuration with said front and rear panels in clearance positions from each other, said box-like configuration bounding a storage compartment sized and shaped to receive therein a commercially packaged CD, said front and rear panels having opposite edges in facing relation bounding a front opening into said storage compartment for loading said commercially packaged CD thereinto and a rear opening operatively effective to allow unrestricted folding movement of said box-like construction into said flat configuration, and an attaching flap extending laterally of said rear panel having an operative position adhesively secured to said spine panel incident to attaching said box-like construction in said flat configuration to said book-like configuration also in said flat configuration, whereby said book-like and box-like constructions are adapted to be transported flat to a site of use at which each is folded into three dimensional configurations providing said storage compartment and causing said attaching flap to serve as a closure for said storage compartment rear opening.
A cardboard CD holder comprising a book means consisting of an interconnected front panel, a spine panel delineated by spaced apart first and second fold lines, and a rear panel, a box means consisting of a front panel, a rear panel, a top panel delineated by spaced apart outboard and inboard fold lines, a bottom panel delineated by spaced apart outboard and inboard fold lines, and an adhesive flap extending laterally of said rear panel in adhesively attached relation to said spine panel to form an assemblage of said book and box means, an operative folded flat condition of said box means incident to said front panel folded in superposed relation upon said rear panel about said outboard fold lines, and an operative folded flat condition of said book means incident to said front panel folded about said first fold line in superposed relation upon said flat box means, whereby the assemblage of said book and box means has a folded flat condition to facilitate the transportation and storage thereof.
A method of preparing for point-of-sales display a CD of a type having a three dimensional rectangular configuration and an inserted protected position within a cardboard enclosure, said method comprising the steps of fabricating as said enclosure a first structure having a front, a rear, top and bottom panels delineated from each other by fold lines, fabricating a book-like second structure having a front panel, a rear panel and spine panel therebetween similarly delineated from each other by fold lines, positioning said first structure within said second structure in a combined point-of-sales display structure, folding in a first direction said combined point-of-sales display structure about said fold lines thereof so as to impart said combined point of sales display structure with a flat configuration, transporting plural said combined point-of-sales display structures in said flat configuration to a site of use, folding in a second opposite direction at said site of use said plural combined point-of-sales display structures about said fold lines thereof to impart thereto a three dimensional configuration, and inserting in said cardboard enclosure a cooperating said three dimensional rectangular CD, whereby said flat configuration of said combined point-of-sales display structure facilitates the transporting thereof to a site of use and the subsequent folding thereof from said flat to said three dimensional configuration facilitates imparting a three dimensional configuration to said enclosure preparatory to the inserting therein of said CD to contribute to protecting said inserted CD at said site of use against damage when used as a point-of-sales display.
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