Retainer Enters Opening In Article Patents (Class 206/493)
  • Patent number: 6305542
    Abstract: A compact organizer for open-end type wrenches includes a plurality of different sized rubber washers mounted and retained on a support rod. The opening in the head of a wrench is reasonably forced onto a corresponding rubber washer, compressing the rubber washer and causing it to grip the opening in the wrench. The set of wrenches are held parallel to and butted up against one another, therefore requiring a minimal amount of storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Inventor: Larry Warren Barbrow
  • Patent number: 6286676
    Abstract: A cassette accommodating case formed integrally of a lower half 1 and an upper half 2 has a cassette insertion opening 3 at is one side surface. A finger-insertion opening portion 24 used for drawing a cassette is formed through an upper surface of the upper half 2. A reel stopper member 9 in which a pair of reel stopper pieces 11, 11 capable of rising and being pressed down and engaged with reel hub apertures 32a, 32b of a compact cassette 30 is fixed on a bottom surface of the lower half 1. A traverse U-letter shaped slit groove 13 is formed through a portion of the base late where the reel stopper pieces 11, 11 are planted, thereby the reel stopper member being formed as a reel stopper member having a flexible base plate 10c which is flexibly deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazumoto Yatabe
  • Patent number: 6283283
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Lakewood Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: George F. Rufo, Jr., David Louis Bolognia
  • Patent number: 6273247
    Abstract: A storing case for holding a recording medium is provided where the recording medium can be easily stored and removed. The storing case has a sturdy structure that is durable and in which the stored recording medium is securely retained. The storing case comprises an outer case and an inner case, which are assembled to provide a storage cavity. First engaging portions and a second engaging portion are formed in upper and lower parts of inner side surfaces of a right wall and a left wall of the outer case. Third engaging portions and fourth engaging portions are engaged in the first engaging portions and the second engaging portions and are formed in the upper and lower parts of outer side surfaces of a right wall and a left wall of the inner case. Engaging pawls for engaging recessed portions of the recording medium are provided in the right wall and the left wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Bandai
    Inventors: Tomitaro Harada, Kaku Hanazawa, Hashira Ryo
  • Patent number: 6267234
    Abstract: This invention relates to a flexible sleeve for holding two digital video discs and accompanying graphics and which is adapted for removable insertion into a binding device such as a 3-ring notebook. The two digital video disc pockets utilize a stop seal to elevate the digital video discs to a convenient position for grasping by a user, while allowing the longer graphics page to be inserted in a graphics pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Case Logic, Inc.
    Inventors: James Allen Bergh, Terrence Martin Drew
  • Patent number: 6267230
    Abstract: A jewelry case includes a bottom wall; a top wall; a side wall having one edge hinged to a first edge of the top wall and an opposite edge hinged to a first edge of the bottom wall such that the top wall can be positioned in parallel spaced relation above the bottom wall; an arrangement of first ring fingers extending downwardly from the top wall and being arranged in a plurality of rows, with a spacing between the first ring fingers in each row being at least equal to a width of one the first ring finger; an arrangement of second ring fingers extending upwardly from the bottom wall and being arranged in a plurality of rows, with a spacing between the second ring fingers in each row being at least equal to a width of one the second ring finger, with the second ring fingers fitting between and interleaved with the first ring fingers; and each first and second ring finger including a part cylindrical, thin walled, resilient structure extending at an acute angle from the respective top wall or bottom wall and ha
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Inventor: Joseph Ovadia
  • Patent number: 6260702
    Abstract: In a cassette accommodate case having such a structure that a cassette is accommodated by being laterally inserted from an inserting mouth portion provided on one side surface thereof, the rotation stopping projecting tabs which engage with hubs in the cassette to prevent the rotation thereof are provided and are capable of rising and falling, in order to prevent the hubs from unnecessarily rotating rotation stopping projecting tabs. With the cassette accommodation case according to the present invention, the rotation stopping projecting tabs are each comprised by parallelly providing two tabs as a set in a cassette inserting direction. Due to the arrangement, in a case where one tab of the rotation stopping projecting tabs does not revert to an erect state and resultantly does not engage with the hubs, another tab engages with the hubs, thereby making it possible to surely prevent the hubs from unnecessarily rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazumoto Yatabe
  • Patent number: 6257790
    Abstract: A container for storing and displaying a soap system. The soap system includes a bar of soap, a flexible, porous sheet retained around the bar of soap and a sliding fastener. The sliding fastener includes a peripheral wall that defines a central passageway therethrough. The sliding fastener is arranged for engaging a gathered end of the sheet extending through the central passageway thereof to retain the sheet about the bar of soap in a taut condition. The container includes a cover member arranged to fit together with a tray member. The cover member includes at least a top panel, two side panels, a front panel and a rear panel. The cover member also includes a projection that extends downwardly from the top panel and through the central passageway of the sliding fastener to retain the soap system within the tray member while housed within said container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Inventor: Ellis I. Toder
  • Patent number: 6241089
    Abstract: A housing having a holding device comprising a base plate with a circular arrangement of radially resilient clamping limbs having radially outward clamping surfaces for engagement in a central opening of at least one disc-shaped information carrier, for example a CD. The base plate also has a circular arrangement of rigid supporting limbs having: radially outward supporting surfaces interposed between the clamping limbs; and radially resilient clamping noses having radially outward clamping surfaces for engagement in the central opening of the disc-shaped information carrier. The clamping noses allowing the clamping force on the information disc to be increased without reducing the immunity to severe impact loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Hermann Grobecker
  • Patent number: 6241093
    Abstract: In a cassette accommodation case which has a structure allowing insertion and housing a cassette in a transverse direction from an insertion opening (2) formed on one side of the cassette accommodation case, and is formed with recess grooves (3a, 3b) for receiving a bulged portion of the cassette on an inner surface thereof, the cassette is securely held in the cassette accommodation case so as to prevent the cassette from suddenly slipping out of the opening. In the cassette accommodation case of the present invention, the recess groove (3b) is provided with a stopper member (25) having an engaging protrusion (25a), and when the cassette is housed in the cassette accommodation case, the engaging protrusion (25a) of the stopper member (25) is engaged with a capstan shaft insertion hole formed on the bulged portion of the cassette, and thereby, the cassette is securely held in the cassette accommodation case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazumoto Yatabe
  • Patent number: 6241088
    Abstract: A compact disk receiving device includes a cover, a base pivotably connected to the cover, and a support plate located between the cover and the base. A shaft is rotatably engaged between two first lugs extending from a side of the cover. The shaft has a first hook member and the support plate has a second hook member which is engageable with the first hook member so that the support plate is able to be slid between the cover and the base. An opposite side of the side having the first hook member is an open side so that two shafts can be piled up by inserting the first hook member of one shaft into the open side of the other shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Inventors: Cheng-Chien Lin, Shih-Chang Kang
  • Patent number: 6237773
    Abstract: A toy and a display card with an opening and where the toy is held within the opening is disclosed. The toy may be transformed from a three-dimensional, generally polyhedral shape to a flattened shape. The toy includes a shell, a top center, a bottom center, and a plurality of fingers extending between the centers. The toy may hold its flattened shape for a predetermined period of time. When the time period has expired, the toy regains its polyhedral shape. The opening is generally rectangular. The height of the opening is at least as long as the height of the toy in its polyhedral shape and is at least as wide as the centers of the toy. In order to place the toy on the display card, the toy is flattened. The toy is then turned on its side and several of the fingers are inserted through the opening. The toy is then turned so that all of the fingers lie in a horizontal plane. The flattened toy can be slid to the bottom of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Goldman Toy Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Goldman
  • Patent number: 6230891
    Abstract: A container for memory disks comprising an upper case; a bottom case; and a supporting member which is adapted to be held between the upper case and the bottom case and to be inserted into each central hole of the memory disks so as to retain the memory disks, thus rendering the outer peripheral portions of the memory disks to become free in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Sakurai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Usui, Shigeru Sekihara, Mitsuhiro Kikuchi, Takahide Abiko
  • Patent number: 6216862
    Abstract: A compact disk storage case is formed integrally by mold injection and mainly comprises a base, a cover connected to the base through a connection band. The base has a projecting inner flange around its perimeter, four clamping bumps arranged in symmetric locations and arranged at center thereof and having arc-shaped outer end. Each clamping bump has a clamping edge on the outer end thereof. The clamping bump has first clamping dots arranged on front and rear sides. The base has two round holes near the connection band and two poles within the holes. The size of the cover is slightly larger than that of the base and has a projecting outer flange, whose side length is s slightly larger than that of the projecting inner flange. The cover has two sets of symmetric clamping poles arranged at center thereof and having second clamping dots on inner ends thereof. Moreover, the cover has two round holes near the connection band 80 and two poles within the holes and with complementary shape with the poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Inventor: Morgan Chang
  • Patent number: 6206186
    Abstract: The invention relates to a box-shaped case (1) comprising a push-button (4) elastic part (2) with elastically deformable lateral branches (5) arranged in one of its covers (1b) whereby the top end thereof (5a) consists of a peripheral protuberance (5b) enabling a disc (3) to fit into the case by means of a central opening (3a). The lower part of lateral branches (5) is jointed to small flanges (6) which are inclined upwards and which converge towards the centre. Said flanges (6) form an angle in relation to the wall (7) of the cover of the case. The cover (1b) also has protuberances that are shaped like circular segments. The outer side or peripheral side of the disc rests against said segments at a given vertical height (11), whereby the disc is subjected to a slight amount of bending stress in a radial direction when it is fited into its housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Inventors: Gustavo Cerda-Vilaplana, Ruben Cerda-Torres
  • Patent number: 6196389
    Abstract: A secure coiled roll paper product package using a hang card of resilient, tear resistant substantially flat stock with a pair of slots and integral arbor slit substantially in its center portion to form two contiguous halves that may be deflected to mount the coiled roll, the slots being dimensioned in relation to the coil to enable mounting of the coiled roll but substantially preventing removal of the coiled roll without tearing or otherwise defacing the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: MDC Corporation Inc.
    Inventors: George Buetter, Fraser R. McCarthy, Joseph B. Schutte, III, Barry Switzer
  • Patent number: 6196386
    Abstract: A bicycle saddle hanger and packaging device, for use with a bicycle saddle having a pair of converging mounting rails, is provided. The device generally includes a display card, a pair of arms for slidably bracing a rail of a bicycle saddle, and a tapered tongue, extending between the display card and arms, for stabilizing a saddle suspended from the device during display. The device may further include a pair of shoulders for abutting the rails during the display. Between the shoulders and the arms, a pair of V-shaped slots may be provided for enabling the sliding of the display card and arms along the rails in order to facilitate stacked packaging of a plurality of such saddles on top of one another. The entire hanger and packaging device may be comprised of a single planar member. In addition, the invention provides a package of stacked bicycle saddles, each including such a hanger and packaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Inventor: Paul M. Yates
  • Patent number: 6186323
    Abstract: Package for tools (10,20) or similar products which are displayed hanging from pegs, comprising a card (12,21) with a peg opening (13) and product information (14). The card is not easily removable from the product, and can by rotation or sliding be transferred from a first position with the opening and the information visible above the product to a second position behind the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Sandvik AB
    Inventors: Conny Jansson, Bennet Ernlund
  • Patent number: 6182825
    Abstract: The present invention provides a holder for a planar data storage medium, comprising a first opening through which the planar data storage medium is insertable into a storage area of the holder in an insertion direction within the plane of the planar data storage medium. Further, a retaining mechanism is provided which is resiliently biased to resist removal of the planar data storage medium from the storage area in a direction opposite to the insertion direction. However, the holder is configured to enable a pressure to be applied to the planar data storage medium to overcome the bias of the retaining mechanism, thereby allowing the planar data storage medium to be removed via the first opening in the holder. This approach enables the holder of the present invention to have a simpler construction and a significantly thinner profile than typical prior art holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Digisox Limited
    Inventor: Sean Butcher
  • Patent number: 6179120
    Abstract: A low-profile storage box comprises only a base and a cover, which are pivotally connected on one side thereof and can be operated to open. The base has a locking means at center thereof, which comprises a plurality of projecting and equally spaced L-shaped pedals. The pedals at even order have a slanting arm extended from the front side thereof and connected to a circular plate. The pedals at odd order are inclined with a specific angel to the vertical wall of the base to facilitate the mounting of compact disk. The low-profile storage box has height of 5 mm-7 mm only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Ritek Corporation
    Inventor: Shou Ming Chou
  • Patent number: 6168015
    Abstract: A CD package includes a CD tray for removably holding a CD, and a paper mount to which the CD tray is affixed. The CD tray is formed of paper produced from raw material other than wood pulp; specifically, paper produced from a combination of kenaf and bamboo fibers. The paper mount is formed of paper that contains kenaf and/or bagasse fibers in an amount of about 5-30% by weight and wood pulp as the, balance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignees: Shimizu Printing & Packaging Co., Ltd., Fuji Cone Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6164445
    Abstract: A compact disc display device having a display member, and a base member. Said display member forms upwardly adjacent from said base member where the base member rests on any horizontal surface. A compact disc securing means is attached to the display member that releasably secures to a center hole in the compact disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Inventor: Gregory S. Cooper
  • Patent number: 6164447
    Abstract: A portable container to hold saw blades and accessories for a table saw has a cover and a base and an integrally formed handle at one end. The handle includes a snap latch and a push-to-release button assembly to hold the container in a closed position and that can be depressed to open the container. The assembly is positioned on the outer edge of the handle. The container also includes a raised position on the cover in which a flat wrench can be stored. Other tools are stored within the container by retaining tabs forms on the inner side of the cover. A post is extends for the inner side of the base to hold the blades and the flat wrench. The post is tubular so that the container can be removably attached to a table saw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: S-B Power Tool Company
    Inventor: Kenneth N. Svetlik
  • Patent number: 6164446
    Abstract: A data disc box for holding a data disc has a body including first and second panels inter-connected for pivoting apart and close together. The first panel includes at least two hooks for engaging an outer edge of the disc on opposite sides to hold the disc in position on the first panel, and a spring for biasing the disc away from the first panel against the action of the hooks. The hook has a part for actuation or pressing to move the overall hook backwards, thereby releasing the disc for movement by the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Media State Group Ltd.
    Inventor: Man Ming Law
  • Patent number: 6161689
    Abstract: The present invention 10 discloses a device for safely storing and transporting saw blades 18 and related tools 34 for installation thereof. The present invention discloses a flat base plate 12 having a spindle 40 centrally located which has threaded fasteners 14 on both sides of the flat plate 12 so that saw blades 18 can be fastened onto both the front and rear face of the base plate 12. The base plate 12 also discloses spacers 22 on its rear side which serve to space the plate away from an object 48 upon which it is mounted. The plate 12 is also equipped with a tool holder 26 attached thereto which provides a compartment 30 for installation tools 34 to mount the blade onto the piece of machinery upon which the blades 18 are to be used. The base plate 12 also provides a carrying handle 24 for easily carrying the base plate 12 and saw blades 18 from one location to another. The present invention also discloses an upper and lower mounting bracket 50, 52 upon which the base plate 12 can be mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Inventor: Frederick C Reithel
  • Patent number: 6161693
    Abstract: A reusable package is provided for displaying and storing a display item, such as a cutting blade. The package includes front and rear body portions hingedly interconnected with each other. Closure portions are formed in the front and rear body portions and are mutually engageable in a gripping and releasable relationship through a central aperture on the display item when the body portions are in their closed position. At least one of the body portions includes an anti-rotation lug that is engageable with a surface discontinuity on the display item, such as a space between adjacent teeth on a cutting blade, thus preventing the display item from rotating when the package is closed. Preferably the other body portion includes a second anti-rotation lug located at a different location relative to the closure portions so that the package can be used to display and store at least two different, but similar display items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Findle, David A. Evans, Sr., Dennis L. Chyba
  • Patent number: 6138824
    Abstract: A hard disk carrier includes a core rod for collectively holding hard disks in a state of piercing center holes of the hard disks arranged in the axial direction with predetermined separations, a release means for collectively disengaging the holding state of the hard disks by the core rod, a container body for accommodating the hard disks held by the core rod and a cover body for sealing the opening of the container body accommodated with the hard disks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Mediken, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Hyakusoku, Mitsugi Maekawa
  • Patent number: 6129427
    Abstract: A storage library system for storing cartridges in which each cartridge has a bottom surface with a receiving cavity formed therein includes a magazine having a plurality of cells formed therein for receiving the cartridges. Each cell is provided with a floor having a raised retention member extending therefrom. The retention member is engageable with the receiving cavity of the bottom surface of each cartridge stored in the cells to hold the cartridges and position accurately the cartridges within the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Storage Technology Corporation
    Inventor: John S. Todor
  • Patent number: 6123192
    Abstract: An improved rosette for securing a disc having a central aperture includes a raised cylindrical hub projecting upward from a planar base, the hub being formed of first and second upstanding annular sections having substantially cylindrical side walls1, the first annular section comprising at least 180.degree. of the circumferential extent of the circular hub. Each of the annular sections includes at least one radially extending rim projecting outwardly beyond the cylindrical side walls. The second annular section cylindrical wall is positioned radially outwardly of the cylindrical wall of the first annular section and is supported on the base for allowing radially inward and downward pivoting of its cylindrical wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Lakewood Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: George F. Rufo, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6112894
    Abstract: Disclosed is disc medium accommodating case for conveying a large number of disc media, in which the embedding structure for the column for stacking the disc media and the case bottom plate member is improved, whereby a sturdy case is provided which is free from deformation or breakage during handling, transportation, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Kikuchi, Daiki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6092656
    Abstract: Wrench sockets are supported on an elongate base by socket holders. A locking member restricts axial displacement of each socket preventing socket separation from each holder. Arms on the locking member protrude into the sockets to contribute to socket retention as do edge surfaces on the locking member. Flexible arms secure the locking member to the base while permitting socket removal upon displacement by the end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Inventor: Gregory R. Ernst
  • Patent number: 6085900
    Abstract: A disc holder for projecting through a central aperture of an optical disc in order to hold the optical disk in place. The disc holder includes a base, a rigid central core, several support arms that extend inwardly from the base to support the central core in spaced relation from the base, and securing means for releasably securing the rigid central core within the central aperture of the optical disc. The securing means includes locking fingers mounted on the central core. The locking fingers are biased outwardly against the edge of the central aperture of the disc when the disc is held by the disc holder. The force of the locking fingers against the edge of the central aperture are movable radially inward to it with the central aperture of the disc helps to hold the disc in place. The locking fingers of the disc, thereby allowing the disc to move over the locking fingers so that the disc can be put on or taken off the disc holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Concord Continental Ltd.
    Inventor: Chi Man Wong
  • Patent number: 6076665
    Abstract: A tool holder includes a casing having a number of receiving chambers defined therein for receiving tools of different functions. The casing further includes a holder chamber defined therein for receiving an end of one of the tools. A holder is mounted to the casing and includes an engaging end for releasably engaging with the end of a tool to be received in the holder chamber. The holder further includes a press end for disengaging the engaging end from the end of the tool to allow removal of the tool from the holder chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Inventor: Louis Chuang
  • Patent number: 6068125
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for packaging planar container carriers. A package of fan folded container carriers having a carton with vertical walls and a moveable platform positioned with respect to a bottom of the carton. Stacks of fan folded planar container carriers are then positioned in the cartons using a method for packaging wherein each stack of fan folded planar container carriers are secured with dividers positioned within the cartons. At least one carton is positioned on a base of the package to accommodate at least one additional stack of container carriers. The method is performed so that the package accommodates successive stacks of container carriers to form a generally continuous strip of container carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur R. Slaters, Jr., Victor I. Deonarine, F. Ronald Seager, Dennis J. Boyd
  • Patent number: 6065594
    Abstract: A storage container for an item of recorded media includes a centrally disposed hub surrounded by and spaced from an outer wall. The hub includes a pair of resilient arms that cooperate to loosely but securely retain an item of recorded media having a centrally disposed inner hole. The hub includes a first support platform that includes a plurality of raised bumps that essentially frictionlessly support the item of recorded media from below. The outer wall includes a second support platform that also includes a plurality of bumps that supports the item of recorded media from below about its outer periphery. The outer wall also includes a blocking wall that extends above the outer edge to prevent the user from grasping the outer edge of the item of recorded media. The outer wall further contains a finger access hole that extends through the blocking wall that allows the user to grab the edge of the item of recorded media in a selected position that is aligned with the arms of the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Alpha Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: James K. Sankey, Dennis D. Belden, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6059098
    Abstract: A jewelry case includes a case including a bottom wall, a top wall, and a peripheral structure connected between the bottom and top walls to define at least one compartment therebetween, the peripheral structure including opposite side walls hinged to opposite edges of the bottom wall, and opposite end walls hinged to remaining opposite edges of the bottom wall, with the top wall hinged to an upper edge of one side wall; first ring posts arranged in a plurality of rows mounted to an underside of the top wall and extending toward the bottom wall, with a spacing between first ring posts in each row being at least equal to a width of one first ring post, and first ring posts of each row being offset from first ring posts of adjacent rows; second ring posts arranged in a plurality of rows mounted to an upper surface of the bottom wall and extending toward the top wall, with a spacing between second ring posts in each row being at least equal to a width of one second ring post, second ring posts of each row being
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Ovadia Corp.
    Inventors: Joseph Ovadia, Tomasz Zawadzki
  • Patent number: 6056117
    Abstract: A CD carrying case having a built-in pop up cover is disclosed. The case comprises a box-like base shell adopted to receive the compact disc and a cover shell sized to fit over the base shell and having a rear end hingely connected to a rear end of the base shell. The cover shell is pivotable between an open position away from the base shell for opening the case and a close position against the base sheel for closing the case. The case further comprises a locking the cover shell in the close position and a biasing element adapted to cooperate with the locking mechanism for biasingly popping up the cover shell in the open position as the locking mechanism is released. The case disclosed combines simplicity and inexpensiveness to manufacture with durability and trouble-free in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Technologie Ansi
    Inventor: Simon Courchesne
  • Patent number: 6053326
    Abstract: A packaging system and method of packaging for a foldable wallet or billfold to enable the wallet or billfold to be opened and examined while deterring the wallet or billfold from being removed from the packaging system. The wallet or billfold has a fold line about which the wallet or billfold is arranged to be folded shut, and an opening in a portion of the wallet or billfold contiguous with the fold line. The packaging system comprising a box and a strip, e.g., band, member. The strip member is an elongated flexible member formed of a tear resistant material, e.g., a flat strip of plastic. The box has a base portion with peripheral side walls forming a hollow interior into which the wallet or billfold is disposed. The strip member is arranged to be extended through the opening in the wallet and overlying the fold line while being permanently secured to at least one of said sidewalls of the base portion. Thus, the wallet is not susceptible to removal without destroying the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Reborn Products Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Allan L. Ford
  • Patent number: 6047821
    Abstract: Disc storage case (1) for storing a plurality of discs (20) comprises a case body (2) having a cylindrical protuberance (4), the outer diameter 4a of which is encompassed by an elastic member (5), and a protrusion (10) that freely enters and exits the inner diameter (4a) of the protuberance (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignees: Takaoka Seiko Co., Ltd., Noritsugu Hashimoto
    Inventors: Noritsugu Hashimoto, Naoki Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 6044976
    Abstract: A container holds an item. The item has an upper surface with a contacting portion and a non-contacting portion. The container comprises a base and a cover. The base has a lower retaining portion with a depth. The item is removably engagable into the lower retaining portion of the base. The cover has an upper retaining portion with a contacting portion and a non-contacting portion. The cover is removably engagable with the base so that the upper retaining portion of the cover is aligned with the lower retaining portion of the base. When the contacting portion of the upper retaining portion of the cover is engaged with the contacting portion of the item, the non-contacting portion of the upper retaining portion is separated from the non-contacting portion of the item by a gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Tyco Submarine Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen A. Bandrowski, Holt A. Murray, Jr., Martin T. Wislinski
  • Patent number: 6041923
    Abstract: A CD ejector device comprising a push member, push plates and a spring plate extending equidistantly from the push member in such a fashion as to be capable of being accommodated in radial grooves formed at a disk support portion at the center of a tray of a CD case, and engagement protuberances so formed on the side surface of the spring plate as to engage with the side surfaces of the groove, the CD ejector device being molded integrally from a synthetic resin. When the push member is pushed, the push plates are jumped up and the CD anchored to the disk support portion can be easily ejected. This CD ejector device can be operated easily by one hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Inventor: Akira Furutsu
  • Patent number: 6036007
    Abstract: A transportation case for a heavy object. A top portion and a mating bottom portion, are proven to be the bottom portion having a lesser height than the top portion to minimize lift-over height into the bottom portion. The bottom portion employs a substantially frusto-conically shaped cushion projecting upwardly therefrom, toward the top portion. The top portion employs a similar frusto-conically shaped cushion projecting downwardly therefrom, toward the bottom portion, the cushions being substantially aligned. The cushions are adapted to be partially inserted into respective apertures in the heavy object, such as, in an aircraft brake assembly. The bottom portion provides for attachment of a removable skid on an exterior surface thereof, the top portion having a corresponding recess for receiving the skid of another transportation case stacked thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Inventors: Miriam L. Alejandro, Jan M. Alejandro, Raymond L. Ward
  • Patent number: 6032794
    Abstract: A container includes a cover secured on a base for slidably receiving an insert and a spring for biasing the insert outward of the base. A housing is secured to the base and a chuck is slidably received in the housing and has a pair of pawls. The pawls have a space for receiving a stop of the insert when the pawls are biased outward of the housing, and are moved toward each other to secure the stop in place when the chuck is moved inward of the housing by the stop of the insert, such that the insert may be easily opened when a number of containers are superposed with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Inventor: Jack Yu
  • Patent number: 6032797
    Abstract: A socket stud for a tool suspension rack includes a substantially cubic body having two opposite first sides and two opposite second sides, and containing a passage transversely defined through the two first sides, and a snap mounted on one of the two first sides of the substantially cubic body. The snap includes at least one flexible strip having a first side facing opposite the passage and a second side facing the passage, and a retaining boss extending outward from the first side of the flexible strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Inventor: Jui-Chien Kao
  • Patent number: 6024213
    Abstract: A hanger for displaying and mounting garment belts and animal collars that include, on one end thereof, a buckle having an open frame with perimetric courses, comprising a belt retaining form having elongated length, parallel straight side edges, planer front and back surfaces and upper and lower ends and being thin and narrow with respect to its length, and including, proximate the upper end thereof, an opening in the upper end of the form for receiving a fixed bracket, a seat, distally spaced from the opening and projecting from the planar front side of the form and having an angular extension at the outward extremity of the seat and adapted to support and retain one course of the belt or collar buckle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Rose America Corporation
    Inventors: Carl Edward Bush, William Harry Barnhard, V
  • Patent number: 6021894
    Abstract: A data disk holder for electronic data storage disks such as compact disks (CDs), includes two opposed, generally arcuate planar closure members which are joined together along a base portion by a living hinge. One of the closure members includes a circular flange defining a bore for receiving a boss projecting centrally from the disk support surface of the other closure member, the boss being an interference fit in the bore for securing the closure members together to retain a data disk in the holder. The holder may be injection molded of relatively light weight polypropylene or a similar moldable polymer and may include transverse walls and a double living hinge to provide the jewel box construction and thickness of conventional disk holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: 3OG, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert P. Lakoski, Pearce R. Jones, Daniel C. Tagtow
  • Patent number: 6016909
    Abstract: A compact disk receiving device includes a base plate with a circular flange extending therefrom which has a lip portion extending radially inward therefrom so as to engage with two engaging plates extending from the bottom of an engaging member which is rotatably mounted to the circular flange. Two hook members extending radially outward from the flange and which are pushed outwardly and downwardly by the long side of the engaging member when rotating the engaging member so as to compress a compact disk mounted onto the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Inventor: Kun-Fa Chang
  • Patent number: 6012571
    Abstract: A jewelry carrier, for storing and transporting chain-like jewelry such as necklaces, comprising a base, a plurality of pegs arranged in peg rows extending from the base, and a plurality of hook carriers, each having two or more hooks. The hook carriers are each aligned with one of the peg rows. The hook carriers are capable of slidable movement toward and away from its corresponding peg row. The hook carriers are spring biased away from the pegs. Necklaces are initially placed around one of the pegs in one of the peg rows. The corresponding hook carrier is slid toward that peg row, and the necklace is placed around one of the hooks. The hook carrier is then released, the hook carrier slides away from the peg row, thereby tensioning the necklace between the hook and the peg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Inventor: Howard N. LaPierre
  • Patent number: 6012570
    Abstract: A combination jewelry pad and hold down member for holding down a jewelry item on the jewelry pad, includes a jewelry pad having an upper wall with an opening therethrough; and a hold down member including an L-shaped clip member including a hold down wall for engaging and holding down a jewelry item on an upper surface of an upper wall of a jewelry pad, and an upstanding wall insertable through an opening in the jewelry pad and having one end connected to the hold down wall; two spring members; and a connecting wall connecting together the two spring members in parallel, spaced apart relation and connected to an opposite end of the upstanding wall, each spring member including a central section connected with the connecting wall, a first spring section connected with the central section at a position spaced below the hold down wall, and a second spring section connected with the central section at a side of the central section which is opposite the first spring section, the first and second spring sections e
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Ovadia Corp.
    Inventors: Joseph Ovadia, Wojciech Doliwa
  • Patent number: RE37129
    Abstract: A display pack having a rotatable security member includes a board and the rotatable security member wherein the board has a first hole and a second hole respectively defined therein and an inverted U-shaped frame extends perpendicularly from a front surface of the board with the second hole being located between two extending portions of the inverted U-shaped frame. The second hole has a toothed inner periphery and the rotatable security member includes a polygonal head and a shank which has a flange extending from a free end thereof and a toothed periphery defined in an outer periphery near the flange so that the rotatable security member is rotatably inserted into the second hole with the toothed inner periphery engaged with the toothed inner periphery. A ratchet tool is engaged with the rotatable security member and can be operated within a limited angle between the two extending portions of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Hand Tool Design Corporation
    Inventor: Jessie Chow