Patents Assigned to Certron Corporation
  • Patent number: 5039178
    Abstract: A storage system is provided which can efficiently store a variety of magnetic storage elements such as VHS video cassette packs, standard audio cassette packs, Beta video cassette packs, 51/4" floppy disc packs, and CD (compact disc) packs alternately in a given space in a drawer. The drawer has opposite sides with vertical tabs spaced along each side to form spaces that closely receive opposite ends of a VHS cassette pack. A pair of cassette adaptors can each lie in spaces otherwise occupied by a VHS cassette pack, the adaptors having vertical ribs that store standard audio cassettes in an orientation perpendicular to that of the VHS cassettes. A pair of disc pack adaptors can be mounted at opposite sides of the drawer, these adaptors having walls forming wide slots for holding CD disc packs and narrower slots at the bottom of the wide slots for holding 51/4" floppy disc packs. The disc pack adaptors hold the disc packs at an incline from the vertical to reduce their height and facilitate reading of titles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: Certron Corporation
    Inventors: Kimberlee K. Muenzer, Spencer L. Mackay
  • Patent number: 4781423
    Abstract: A storage system is provided which can effectively store a variety of magnetic storage elements such as VHS video cassette packs, standard audio cassette packs, Beta video cassette packs, 51/4" floppy disc packs, and CD (compact disc) packs alternately in a given space in a drawer. The drawer has opposite sides with vertical tabs spaced along each side to form spaces that closely receive opposite ends of a VHS cassette pack. A pair of cassette adaptors can each lie in spaces otherwise occupied by a VHS cassette pack, the adaptors having vertical ribs that store standard audio cassettes in an orientation perpendicular to that of the VHS cassettes. A pair of disc pack adaptors can be mounted at opposite sides of the drawer, these adaptors having walls forming wide slots for holding CD disc packs and narrower slots at the bottom of the wide slots for holding 51/4" floppy disc packs. The disc pack adaptors hold the disc packs at an incline from the vertical to reduce their height and facilitate reading of titles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1988
    Assignee: Certron Corporation
    Inventors: Kimberlee K. Muenzer, Spencer L. Mackay
  • Patent number: 4375850
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for retail display of a cassette in a box and for storage of a cassette at home or in an automobile using a flat plastic holder having a window and four protrusions into the window. These protrusions fit into holes in the box. A pair of protrusions on one side, which are longer than on the other side, are inserted into matching holes in the box. As the other side is then moved into the window, the other (shorter) pair of protrusions snap into the remaining holes in the box. The holder has an extension at one end with a hole for receiving a rod of a display rack. For storage, the holder slides into slots on the inside of a case. The extension then seves as a tab for lifting the holder out of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1983
    Assignee: Certron Corporation
    Inventors: William A. Smyth, Graydon S. Carlson, Harold J. Wilde
  • Patent number: D275370
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1984
    Assignee: Certron Corporation
    Inventors: William A. Smyth, Graydon S. Carlson, Harold J. Wilde