Recorded music type

The invention relates to a unit for displaying cassettes and tape cartridges. The unit is pivotally mounted about a fixed support and comprises one or more radially extending display sections each of which is adapted to receive the cassettes in a slidable manner in the radial direction from the ends...     

A case within which record player records can be conveniently carried so that the records cannot be damaged while in transit, the case consisting of a container molded of plastic material and which is integral with several posts formed on one interior side wall so that the records can be hooked on to...     

A display device for articles such as audio cassettes and cartridges, the device having at least one vertically disposed wing-like member in the form of a frame with an opening through which the articles can be inserted into or removed from the frame, the frame being pivotally mounted about a first axis...     

This invention relates to equipment for hanging reels of magnetic computer tape and the like. The computer tape is usually enclosed in a canister having a peripheral hook. A rack is provided having a plurality of tapes. Each hanger has a suspension rod for receiving the hook of the canister. The hanger...     

The disclosure relates to a storage cell assembly for magnetic tape cartridges. Modular storage cells are joined into a storage cell assembly that can accommodate a plurality of cartridges in either a linear or circular array. The storage cell assembly provides rapid retrieval of audio signals, such...     

A display device, particularly for small valuable articles such as pre-recorded tape cassettes, comprising two open ended transparent and/or apertured container parts which are movable relative to each other. The open ends of the container parts can be brought together to prevent removal of articles...     

A one-piece spring fastener for connecting two members is disclosed which is useful as a replacement for a spring-biased hinge. The fastener has a body section with spring clips and a tab for locking the body section to one member and a leaf spring section that projects from one side of the body section...     

A hand-held protector for permitting removal of a phonograph disc record from a record jacket, for placing the record on a phonograph spindle, for removing the record from the spindle and reinserting the record into a jacket, all without touching the record. The protector comprises a flat cap-like device...     

A cassette storage device retains cassettes in arcuately spaced relation for rotation about a horizontal axis which provides visual access with the cassettes being received in channels that confine end portions. Retention is affected by the use of the bosses on the cassette which are retained in slotted...     

A phonograph record album filing cabinet characterized by a structure wherein a record may be easily selected for use and which may be easily returned to its original place in the cabinet easily after use.

A container for video-discs includes a support for the disc and a protective envelope which is open along one edge to allow the support to be inserted laterally into the envelope. The container comprises furthermore guiding means for centering the video-disc on the support, and means for engaging the...     

Apparatus for carrying phonographic records in a stacked arrangement. The apparatus has a base, a spindle, and a handle. The handle is movably coupled to the spindle to provide two positions for the handle relative to the spindle. One handle position is employed for carrying the stack and carrier. The...     

A case for storing a group of smaller boxes, such as boxes containing magnetic tape cassettes, includes a container for receiving the boxes in a side-by-side arrangement, and a keyboard having a plurality of levers for elevating selectively and individually the boxes through an open mouth in the container....     

An organizer device for storage, retrieval and replacement of closely spaced articles of substantially like-shape but of different contents. The device comprises a support frame provided with holding means for supporting the articles in a closely spaced manner. An identification code is associated with...     

The carrier includes a top member, a base member and at least two adjustable vertical side members. The vertical side members are adjustable horizontally to vary the width between the side members to accommodate printed circuit boards of varying width. The vertical side members include a plurality of...     

A cleaning device for a circular disc with a central bore, the device hav a shaft on a supporting box to rotatably hold a disc to be cleaned in a cleaning tank, and a drying rack which fits into the box and on which the disc can be dried; there is further disclosed a hub to surround said shaft and enclose...     

A storage module for receiving recording tape containers includes a bottom wall having a plurality of elongated, parallel, channel-like trays slidably engaged therein. A plurality of partition-forming insert members are snugly engaged within the trays and divide the same longitudinally into separate...     

This disclosure covers a rack or stand for supporting or containing one or more disc phonograph records, and/or one or more albums of such records, and/or anything essentially flat in a compact and wieldy arrangement such that two or more of the racks or stands may be stacked, one upon another, to provide...     

The cabinet has a plurality of parallel arranged shelves each for accommodating a record album and including means wherein a record may be easily selected for use and easily returned to its original predetermined position in the cabinet. When the record is in its jacket selection is by means of a notch...     

A storage rack for record albums and the like has a planar bottom wall adapted for engagement with a top surface of a bottom supportive structure such as a shelf and a planar top wall adapted for engagement with a bottom surface of a top supportive structure such as a shelf whereby the top and bottom...     

A storage rack is disclosed for supporting conventional phonograph records in a generally upright position including side rails and end rails forming an open sided box-like structure with parallel and separated rods extending along the length of the structure between with a spacer member having surfaces...     

A container for disc storage and transportation includes nestable spacers with disc supporting and locating rims. Vertical posts with a plurality of vertically spaced slots rise through the central opening of the spacers and are engageable by the cross bar of the spacer when the spacer is roatably twisted....     

A cassette storage rack having a tray-like base with dividers so as to orient the cassettes in their boxes uniformly in the rack. The cassette boxes are retained in the rack by means of a resilient foam block which engages one edge of each box and urges it against an opposite retaining wall.

A display and storage assembly primarily intended for storing and displaying sound cassettes and eight-track tapes is disclosed. The assembly has an elongate base section and at least one upright partition member is mounted on the base section for sliding movement therealong. One end of the base section...     

A tape cassette security container including a housing having an entry opening of slightly lesser dimension than the cassette, a plug member limiting the space within the housing to prevent removal of the cassette, and a key member for removing the plug member to permit removal of the cassette.

A storage holder for tape cassettes is provided for carrying of a plurality of such tapes on an automotive vehicle's sunvisor. The storage holder includes a plurality of compartments for receiving respective ones of the cassettes and each compartment is provided with sets of opposed cassette supporting...     

A display device having a collapsible easel support for supporting a display device on a surface at a predetermined angle comprising a back panel having a bottom edge. A stay flap is hinged to the bottom edge of the back panel. A support panel and stay panel are hinged together, the support panel being...     

A phonograph record rack having a framework with upstanding pins for carrying on said pins elongate hinge clamps. The hinge clamps are of one piece extrusion reinforced plastic material being formed of two integral sections, an opening at its spine for mesh engagement with its associated pin and tensioned...     

A tape cassette storage container comprises a rigid backing frame member (50,51, 56, 57), provided on one side with fastening means for attachment of the container to a support member, and a series of successive adjacent storage compartments or pockets (61) for individual tape cassettes (65), in which...     

A storage rack for video tape cartridges permitting storage of a plurality of cartridges in a close linear array and arranged for ease of individual selection. The rack is preferably constructed of plastic having an open front and internal divider walls sectioning the rack into closely adjacent cartridge...     

A storage unit is provided, which is particularly adapted for use as a flat file, comprising a fiberboard housing having a plurality of particle board shelf-supporting panels with recesses that support fiberboard drawer shelves encased at their forward edges by a rigid casing, and further including a...     

A storage system for phonograph records and the like which may be totally enclosed has a plurality of vertically spaced double link arms with each mounting a support disc having an upright record retaining shaft thereon whereby groups of closely spaced records may be swung out for ready selection and...     

A storage rack for displaying flat, rectangular articles such as record jackets along a wall surface. The rack is comprised of at least two elongated rack members mountable to a support in transverse alignment for receiving opposed side edges of the article. The rack members are grooved to receive the...     

A wafer processing boat is provided with parallel slots that support each wafer at a slight angle with respect to vertical so that the wafers lean by gravity in a uniform manner and are thereby arranged in spaced parallel relationship. This enables the tolerances within the slots to be quite large with...     

A holding and storage apparatus for tape cassettes adapted to be attached to a door of a glove compartment of an automobile in a location so that a plurality of tape cassettes can be stored within the glove compartment. The apparatus is a metal extrusion having a generally flat base integral with a plurality...     

A magazine for magnetic tape cassettes, comprising a trough which is U-shaped in cross section and open at the ends, and which possesses a plurality of transverse ribs on the bottom, between which ribs the cassettes are accommodated, the side members of the trough being provided with resilient strips...     

A tape cassette holder includes a first panel and a second panel extending integrally and orthogonally from one edge of the first panel. A plurality of L-shaped dividers is disposed perpendicular to both of the panels, and is spaced laterally and secured thereto to define a plurality of slot openings...     

A case for carrying and storing a web slitting blade includes a rubber padded circular platform having a central post extending upwardly therefrom for receiving the hub of a web slitter blade. A cylindrical cover is threadedly connected to the central post to enclose the slitter blade and complete the...     

A rack for use in carrying recorded discs through a cleaning operation includes a substantially C-shaped rod having a hook at its top end and three sets of spaced posts extending from the sides of a circular bottom portion. A separate plastic spindle is mounted on each of the posts with each spindle...     

A rack for holding a quantity of record albums, each in a display position of at least partial visibility so as to be individually identifiable for selection by the user. An upstanding backing support which may be hung vertically against a wall or alternately back-tilted when floor supported, has vertically...     

A phonograph record holder having a frame comprising a base element and two substantially flat faced upright elements attached at the lower end to the base element and extending upwardly in parallel spaced apart relationship, each of the inner faces of the upright elements having at least one vertical...     

A PFA Teflon carrier for silicon wafers being processed in hot baths in the production of integrated circuit chips with sidewalls having wafer spacing webs and grooves receiving the wafers in confronting and spaced relation. The sidewalls having outboard channel supports or stiffening bars extending...     

Wafer cassette for processing of wafers which includes a plurality of open supported wafer dividers for supporting a plurality of wafers in alignment in opposing dividers of the cassette for automated processing of the wafers while in the cassette. The wafer cassette utilizes an H-bar end with a configured...     

A wall display device, particularly suitable for displaying record albums including a plurality of blocks, one for each corner of the album having upper vertical corner channels to hold the bottom corners of the album and vertical side channels to hold the upper corners of the album where each block...     

A disk package for memory disks and the like and including a top cover, a disk cassette, and a bottom cover where the top cover includes sides with hooks which engage about catches on the box, and the bottom cover includes a channel which frictionally engages to the bottom edges of the box. The disk...     

Racks and shelves for displaying such objects as video cassette boxes have been arranged so that the boxes have been presented face-on, or spine-on. The invention displays the boxes diagonally so both the spine and a portion of the front face are presented. The disclosed rack is of vacuum formed plastic...     

A modular storage rack for tapes, wherein the face of the tape cartridges is visible, rather than the edge of the tape cartridges, thereby facilitating identification. The tapes are positioned in the modular storage rack by using an insertion and dropping motion, and a means for locking the tapes within...     

A protective canister for computer discs comprises a hollow tube and a pair of end caps for closing the tube and fixing a central post therein. A stack of alternate computer discs and spacers having aligned central apertures is loaded onto the center post and clamped in the canister by way of a pair...     

A display rack for video tape containers and other similar articles includes a support rack which is fixed to a support surface. A plurality of bracket members are connected to the support rack utilizing a combination of two opposing channels and two projections. The projections fit into the channels...     

A temporary holder for computer diskettes and their envelopes in the form of a knockdown assembly having two rigid, upstanding, opposite end pieces, two bottom rails extending horizontally between the end pieces, and normally flat, thin, vinyl strips flexed into an inverted U-shape and held end-to-end...     

An article of manufacture is comprised of a compact disc and an enclosure therefore, the enclosure being convertible from a pilfer resistant merchandising mode to a compact storage mode. The enclosure includes a disposable stiffener member which functions also, in the merchandising mode, as a pilfer...     

A diskette holder for rigid-case data diskettes is disclosed, comprising a platform having a plurality of lateral grooves in the upper surface thereof for receiving diskettes. Associated with each groove are diskette support means comprising a front support face angled upwardly and forwardly from the...     

A cell for storing and dispensing a cartridge comprising a rear wall, a vertical side wall, and a cartridge engaging bottom. A front cartridge-discharge end is located opposite the rear wall and there are means to pivot the cell relative to the horizontal. A spacer clip is removably attached to the rear...     

A magazine for sound recording media suitable for vehicle installation comprises an outer housing which defines, through the use of a plurality of inwardly extending ribs, a recess which receives the inner housing or housings which include the media receiving drawers or sliders. An impact absorbing frame...     

A novel device for storing and displaying videocassette packages is disclosed. The device includes a series of videocassette holders which are pivotably mounted to a stock shelf. The device allows at least three sides of each videocassette package to be viewed without direct handling, and provides comparatively...     

A storage device for record discs having a housing defining a compartment for holding a record disc in a fixed position and having an entrance through which the disc is inserted edgewise in its own plane to the fixed position; a first V-grooved member fixed in the compartment generally adjacent and behind...     

A magnetic disc storage container includes a base member having a bottom panel and four rows of guide rails which are disposed at an acute angle with respect to the bottom panel. All of the guide rails are parallel, and the guide rails within each row are equally spaced apart. Storage slots between the...     

A storing and dispensing system for square or rectangular objects including a tray (T) having side by side cells 10. Each cell has a front wall (2), side walls (12), and a rear wall (4), a bottom (6), and an upwardly inclined ramps (28), extending rearwardly from the bottom surface to the rear wall....     

A modular display rack assembly having a plurality of aligned interlocking vertical panels with a plurality of shelf brackets for supporting display articles attached to each vertical panel is provided. The vertical panels are mounted at an angle with respect to the support structure to provide increased...     

Wafer cassette for processing of silicon wafers which includes a plurality of open supported reinforced wafer dividers for supporting a plurality of wafers in alignment in opposing dividers of the cassette and for automated robotic processing of the wafers while in the cassette. The wafer cassette utilizes...     

A storage cabinet for storing in each of a number of stacked storage regions a boxed compact disk, a boxed compact cassette or a pair of unboxed compact cassettes includes a pair of opposed parallel side walls cantilevered from a rear wall and having stacked opposed pairs of protrusions defining a first...     

An integrally molded plastic tape cartridge holding case having two oppositely facing openings provided with a plurality of inclined shelf means for supporting a tape cartridge placed thereon and an integrally molded tape cartridge transport case having compartments for holding a plurality of tape cartridge...     

This invention relates to an esthetically pleasing, practical and functional storage rack particularly suited for storage of soft cover items. In its preferred embodiment, the storage rack comprises top, bottom and side panels that include tracks positioned so that dividers are detachably engaged in...     

One side of a cabinet drawer shelf is at least partially closed off to prevent storing access while the other side is open for storing microfilm cartridges or other items. A cartridge is of such dimensions as to extend outwardly from the shelf confines enabling ready access for removal and replacement....     

A storage rack for storing compact audio discs or other relatively small containers or boxes of right parallelepiped configuration, so that a maximum number of containers can be stored in a way which will afford ready access to each. The storage rack includes a series of side-by-side grooves or slots,...     

A device for attachment to the roof of vehicle for holding tape cassette boxes. The device consists of a base and plurality of arms attached to the base in rows. Each said arm has a resiliently deformable portion situated at an angle to the base member. The resilient portion and the base member form...     

An improved wafer carrier adapted for use in storing and transferring semiconductor wafers is described. The carrier generally resembles prior art carriers in that it is an open topped basket with internal slots for receiving spaced apart semiconductor wafers. Rails having smooth upper surfaces are provided...     

In a multisectional storage container, especially a storage box for the storage of plate- or disk-shaped items, such as compact disks or diskettes, for example, it is proposed that individual storage sleeves be interconnected one with the other in an articulated manner by means of interconnecting means...     

A tray is constructed for storing a plurality of diskette holders, each holder having different identifying indicia thereon, and the tray bottom being stepped so that each identifying indicia is viewable from the front of the tray. The diskette holders are in the form of a book with inside pouches to...     

The invention is disclosed as being embodied in the stationary storing and dispensing system for substantially square or rectangular objects and comprises at least two shelves (S) each having a bottom (20), a ramp (32), a finger guide (26), and and article restraining member (30), the shelves being assembled...     

A truck having means for supporting a plurality of tape cartridge holders and used for transferring a plurality of tape cartridges is provided with rotatable means for supporting the tape cartridges holders so that the tape cartridges in the tape cartridge holders are readily accessible to the operator...     

A storage case for storing electronic recording devices and their boxes. The case has a base, two end walls and two side walls, each fixedly connected together to form an open box. The side walls have an upper and a lower portion, the lower portion being adjacent the base and the upper portion being...     

A compact storage file for box-like objects such as the IBM 3480 magnetic tape cartridge. The basic file unit comprises a U-shaped frame of a flat back wall and integral side walls with a plurality of shelves therein. The construction of the basic unit enables it to be replicated and arranged in many...     

A cartridge magazine capable of holding and releasing a plurality of cartridge magnetic tapes therein and therefrom by using an automatic cartridge changer, characterized in that each cartridge magnetic tape storage member has a first opening from and into which a cartridge magnetic tape can be removed...     

A disc storage device for holding and storing discs such as computer floppy discs, compact discs, slides and the like. The device comprises a set of modules for holding the discs having a planar surface, four walls surrounding the planar surface holding means to prevent the disc from moving within the...     

A compact disc rack assembly has a series of pivotally mounted panels positioned on a stationary support. The panels have a plurality of spaced ledges with outer lips, and the ledges are spaced from each other less than the overall dimension of the container being housed so that the container is stored...     

A storage rack for the storage of items such as video and audio recordings is shown as having a mounting portion by which the storage rack can be mountably secured to an associated support structure; the mounting portion carries a relatively lower disposed support for providing a generally upward support...     

An apparatus for storing a plurality of disc-shaped recording media includes a housing and a plurality of thin, substantially C-shaped lever members, each of which has an inner circumferential surface for holding a disc-shaped recording media by an outer circumferential surface of the recording media....     

A storage rack assembly for storing articles such as audio and video cassettes, compact disc containers and records on shelves, cabinets and the like includes a rack formed of a base and U-shaped wires which form side supports, a base formed of elongated wires and mounting the U-shaped wires and cross-wires...     

An article display shelf, formed from an injection moulded plastics material, has a base (10) with a side wall (12) providing inwardly extending ribs (14). Movable baffles (20) are mounted on the base (10). In one position, the baffles (20) co-operate with the ribs (14) for edgewise display of such as...     

A display unit for a consumer product such as a compact disk, digital audio tape, cassette tape or video tape. The display unit includes a frame having at least one generally rectangular opening adapted to receive the consumer product therewithin. The opening is defined by parallel top and bottom frame...     

A container for compact disks comprises a structure which is generally square in plan of twelve inch side length with a thickness substantially less than the dimension of the side and generally either 0.5 inches or 1.0 inches so that the container can be stored along side like containers or along side...     

This visual compact disc wall rack is designed to display a multiple number of compact music disc cases. Primarily, a rack is composed of a rectangular frame having vertical and horizontal members defining compartment openings for receiving the cases, and hook pile fasteners are secured in the compartment...     

A interim holder of open framework construction for computer diskettes comprising a base portion including a rear member, a pair of forwardly extending side members, and end members which preferably extend downwardly from the respective forwardly extending side members to provide an inclination of the...     

A storage rack for the storage of items such as video and audio recordings is shown as having a mounting portion by which the storage rack can be mountably secured to an associated support structure; the mounting portion carries a relatively lower disposed support for providing a generally upward support...     

A holder for tape cartridges having a plastic housing divided by a partition to form an upper section and a lower section each of which has a plurality of compartments integrally formed therein so that a tape cartridge may be positioned in each of the compartments and be supported on a bottom support...     

A book and cassette file system for coordinating books and companion audio transcription cassettes includes a base and a pair of book ends. Each book end includes compartments for storing audio cassettes. A base is provided for supporting the books and the book ends and various mechanisms are illustrated...     

An apparatus is set forth wherein a housing includes a forward wall spaced rearwardly of and parallel to a rear wall, wherein the forward wall is of a lesser height than that of the rear wall, with a floor extending rearwardly of the forward wall spaced from the rear wall, with a first inclined wall...     

Support for standard boxes of compact disks in the form of a tray provided with transverse vertical walls spaced at a distance greater than the thickness of a box in such a way that the boxes are able to occupy two stable oblique positions. The tray has two raised lateral parts spaced at a distance of...     

A carousel for storing and displaying compact disk albums or cases comprises one or more reels rotatably mounted on a turntable base where the reels include a central core and a pair of parallel spaced-apart disks having sets of parallel ribs disposed at equal angular positions around the core. The dimensions...     

A book restraint assembly for shelving such as used in libraries. The book restraint assembly has a tubular restraint member that extends the length of the shelf assembly. End plates are positioned adjacent the opposite end of the tubular restraint member and each have a rivet that passes through an...     

A wall-mounted apparatus for storage and display of containers for stored media, particularly for storage of compact discs and display of artwork and information regarding each of the compact discs that is located directly behind a container's front cover. The apparatus includes a generally flat rectangular...     

Since they should not be stacked, display racks are generally used to hold such objects as compact discs, video discs, records and the like. In display racks compact discs can be displayed for sale, and for showing them at home. Because of their generally planar structures, originally discs and records...     

A storage rack is disclosed for securely holding and displaying cassette packages, disc packages, tape packages and similarly packaged articles through the use of resilient retaining members.

High density, rapid access storage of cassette modules is provided by way of a storage unit in which the modules are supported in side by side edge-on orientation, being supported at the diagonally opposed front top and rear lower corners, and having freedom for lateral sliding movement while thus secured...     

A compartment forming member for supporting an article such as a tape cartridge on an elongated shelf having a support surface and depending flange portions wherein the compartment forming member has a base portion having a width slightly greater than the width of the support surface and depending flanges...     

Apparatus defining a matrix of compact disc containers wherein an I-shaped support beam mounts a rectangular matrix of the containers wherein each container defines a cavity therewithin with a retainer flange securing a compact disc positioned within a transparent sleeve within each container. A cover...     

A stackable modular unit for a storage structure for flat objects, having two lateral, mutually distanced, wall members to which are attached or with which are integral at least two bottom members and at least one top member. The bottom and top members define supporting and guiding surfaces for the object,...     

A holder for tape cartridges having a plastic housing divided by a partition to form an upper section and a lower section each of which has a plurality of compartments integrally formed therein so that a tape cartridge may be positioned in each of the compartments and be supported on a bottom support...     

A thin, light-weight, one-piece rack package for disc record media storage cases holds compact discs in two types of double configurations, one as retailer, and the other as a rack. Eighteen compact disc boxes can be held in individual slots of the rack with longitudinal side walls and transverse end...