Container for optical disks, tray and magazine type player therefor
AssigneeThomson Licensing
InventorsFritz Weisser, Hans-Joachim Platte, Wilfried Scheffler, Billy Wesley Beyers
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Abstract
The invention refers to a container (1) for optical disks (25), a tray (5) for such container (1) and a magazine type player (39) adapted to be used with such container (1). Object of the invention is to provide a container (1) for optical disks (25) in which many disks (25) may be stored within a comparatively small space. According to the invention the container (1) comprises a slidable tray (5), guiding means (10) for guiding said tray (5), a cover plate (6) and a bottom plate (2), wherein the thickness of said tray (5) substantially equals the sum of thicknesses of said cover plate (6) and said bottom plate (2).
Claims50
Container for optical disks comprising one or more slidable trays, guiding means for guiding said tray, a cover plate and a bottom plate, wherein the sum of the heights of the one or more slidable trays is less than the height of said container, and wherein the sum of thicknesses of said cover plate and said bottom plate equals the thickness of said tray such that the distance between any two trays is an integer multiple of the thickness of said tray if two or more containers are stacked.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.