Mechanically assembled compact disc package
AssigneeLakewood Industries, Inc.
InventorsGeorge F. Rufo, Jr., David Louis Bolognia
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Abstract
An improved storage package for a recording medium includes a paper board component releasably attached to a plastic, recording medium-holding component. The paper board component includes a flat base panel having upstanding flaps extending substantially perpendicular to the base panel. The plastic component includes a generally planar surface having a skirt depending therefrom. Lugs extend under the planar surface from the skirt for engaging apertures on the flaps. Inclined walls depend from the planar surface adjacent the skirt for guiding and directing the leading edge of each of the flaps.
Claims16
A storage package for a recording medium comprising a paper board component releasably attached to a plastic, recording medium-holding component, said package including:
- A. a paper board component defining:
- (i) at least one flat base panel having a pair of opposed lateral sides and at least one transverse side which is generally perpendicular to said lateral sides;
- (ii) a flap extending outwardly from each of said lateral sides and said at least one transverse sides and separated from said sides by a fold line for pivotal movement of said flap about said fold line between an open orientation wherein said flaps and said base panel are substantially coplanar and a folded orientation wherein each of said flaps is substantially perpendicular to said base panel for defining an upwardly opening, at least three-sided, paper board box;
- (iii) at least one aperture in each said flap;
- B. a plastic component for receiving and holding a recording medium, defining:
- (i) a generally planar surface for receiving and maintaining a recording medium thereon;
- (ii) a pair of opposed lateral sides and a transverse side which is generally perpendicular to said lateral sides, said sides depending from said generally planar surface for defining a downwardly opening, at least three-sided plastic box, said plastic box being dimensioned to receive said paper board box therewithin with said flaps closely adjacent the corresponding depending sides of said plastic box;
- (iii) at least one lug extending inwardly from each of said depending sides, said at least one lug projecting under and spaced from the underside of said planar surface;
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- (iv) wall means depending from said planar surface adjacent each of said depending sides for guiding and directing the leading edge of each of said flaps into a passageway defined between said wall means and said depending adjacent side, said apertures in said flaps engaging said lugs for releasably attaching said paper board component to said plastic component.
A storage package for a recording medium comprising a paper board component releasably attached to a plastic, recording medium-holding component, said storage package comprising:
- a paper board component comprising at least one flat base panel and upstanding flap means extending substantially perpendicular to and upwardly from said base panel along at least a portion of said base panel, said flap means having at least one aperture therein;
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- a plastic, recording medium-holding component comprising:
- (i) a generally planar surface for receiving and maintaining a recording medium thereon;
- (ii) skirt means depending from said planar surface, said skirt means being dimensioned and positioned along said planar surface such that said upstanding flap means is positioned closely adjacent said depending skirt means when said paper board component is attached to said plastic component;
- (iii) at least one lug extending inwardly from one side of said skirt means toward said flap means, said at least one lug projecting under and spaced from an underside of said planar surface;
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- (iv) wall means depending from said planar surface adjacent said skirt means on the side thereof supporting said lug for guiding and directing a leading edge of said flap means into a passageway defined between said wall means and said depending adjacent skirt means, said apertures in said flaps engaging said lugs for releasably attaching said paperboard component to said plastic component.
A method of assembling a storage package for a recording medium comprising:
- (a) forming a generally rectangular paper board base panel having coplanar flaps extending outwardly from two opposed lateral sides and one transverse side of said base panel into an upwardly opening, at least three-sided, paper board box by pivoting said flaps about their intersection with said panel sides until said flaps are substantially perpendicular to said base panel;
- (b) inserting the free ends of said flaps within a downwardly facing opening defined by a plastic box comprising a generally planar, rectangular surface having two lateral sides and a transverse side depending from said planar surface, said plastic box being dimensioned to receive said paper board flaps therewithin with said flaps closely adjacent the corresponding lateral and transverse depending sides thereof, and
- (c) causing said free ends of said flaps to move upwardly within said downwardly facing opening into passageways defined between the depending adjacent sides of said plastic box and wall means depending from said planar surface, said wall means guiding and directing the free ends of said flaps until said flaps engage with lugs extending inwardly from said adjacent depending sides.
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