Abstract: In connection with an individual container, which can be assembled with a pre-determined number of additional individual containers to form a multiple storage container, in particular a multiple filing box, it is proposed to subdivide each individual container into one front wall portion and one rear wall portion which are interconnected by links in such a manner that opening and closing kinematics similar to those of a parallelogram guide are obtained for each individual container, and that fixing means are provided on the respective rear and front faces of each individual container for connecting it safely, but detachably, to the associated rear or front face of the adjoining individual container whereby a multiple filing box is obtained that can be opened and closed in concertina-like mannner. The multiple filing box is composed of individual containers which form the transport and/or sales packing of the goods (CD disk, data storage means, or the like) accommodated in each individual container.

Abstract: 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 even in relatively narrow aisles.

Abstract: The bumper includes resilient material for forcing a cartridge positioned at rest in contact with the bumper away from the bumper in response to the cartridge momentarily being forced into the bumpder from its at-rest position; and a rigid ridge extending from the back wall of the chamber; wherein the resilient material is secured to the ridge, and extended from the ridge to define a void between the ridge and the portion of the resilient material contacted by the cartridge.

Abstract: 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 horizontally one above the other.

Abstract: A storage tray has opposed first sets of spaced ribs forming parallel compartments and a second set of shorter ribs transversely disposed between the first sets of ribs with the spacing being one first rib and one adjacent second rib being sized to slidably receive one single compact audio disc box, so that two single compact audio disc boxes fit every compartment. The shorter ribs are formed with guide flanges. Two adjacent single boxes may be removed, and then one dual audio disc box is received in the compartment between adjacent first ribs, and with the second rib being slidably and guidingly received in the back recess of a conventional dual audio disc box. The storage tray is self-interlocking with another storage tray so as to form a self-contructing cabinet.

Abstract: A data cartridge handling system comprising a plurality of carrying cases, each case having a base, a hinged lid, and a carrying handle, and each being of suitable dimensions to house an insertable partitioned tray designed to hold a predetermined number of data tape cartridges having one of a variety of sizes. The cases may be removably inserted into a shelving module by sliding the case horizontally between spaced supports, and the entire system may be placed on a desktop or inverted and mounted under a desk or table.

Abstract: Apparatus capable of storing or displaying a plurality of compact discs, cassettes or other similar objects is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing and a plurality of pivotable members rotatably positioned therein. Each pivotable member may hold one or more objects, each object being positioned within a compartment in the pivotable member. In one embodiment, each pivotable member includes a base plate, a rear wall, a pair of side walls, and a pair of members which together form a front wall. The front wall members cooperate with the rear wall, which may include clamping ribs, to provide a clamping force which substantially fixedly positions the compact discs within the pivotable member so that the display rack may be positioned throughout a range extending from substantially horizontal to substantially vertical. The clamping force may be adjusted by varying the dimensions and geometry of a slot associated with the clamping means.

Abstract: Apparatus for storing and transporting cassettes comprising a container formed of side panels and a rear panel coupled to form a box-like structure. The container also includes a plurality of spaced and parallel separation panels forming slots for individual cassettes to be inserted, stored and removed. The apparatus also includes a bracket formed as an inverted J-shaped member having a short downwardly extending part positionable between an internal door panel and its associated glass and a long downwardly extending part. A tongue is also provided on the container and pockets on the long part of the bracket to separably couple the container to the bracket. The separation panels may be oriented either generally horizontally or vertically.

Abstract: The container-classifier comprises a container body (1) of relatively flat form for containing the articles; a cover (2) is hinged to the upper end of the body (1); the cover (2) and body (1) are hinged together in such a manner as to enable the cover (2) to rotate rearwards from the position (A) through an angle greater than 180 degrees so as to bring the cover (2) into a position (B) in which it rests on a support surface by way of its lower end and supports the body (1) in a stable inclined position, in which the open face of the body (1) is in view.

Abstract: 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 protect and store a plurality of diskettes. Both the diskette holder and tray combination is formed essentially entirely of transparent thermoplastic material.

Abstract: A retainer for holding and protecting an optical disk is molded from plastic, to form a thin, flat, rectangular base member having a shallow rectangular cavity in the front surface thereof. A shallow circular cavity is centrally located within the rectangular cavity. The disk is resiliently held within the circular cavity, and can be removed by finger lifting. The retainer's top edge includes a hook recessed into its flat top edge. This hook allows the retainer to be vertically hung from, and perpendicular to, a horizontal storage rod. The retainer includes short, spaced posts located within the top portion of the rectangular cavity. A flat storage envelope mounts on these posts, to overlay the disk's exposed surface. The two external, vertically extending side walls of the base each include a flat, protruding, label surface located at the center of the side wall. Two flat box shaped containers are provided. One container holds a single retainer.

Abstract: 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 in such a manner that the sequence of sleeves can be opened in the nature of a parallelogram mechanism or in an accordian-like manner, thus enabling all of the items that are contained therein to immediately be visually inspected and identified and/or manually removed. By subsequently collapsing the individual storage sleeves of the storage box, it is possible to house them in a minimum of space, without any clearance one between the other, and, if desired, to store them in a dust-tight manner by means of an enveloping enclosure.

Abstract: A mounting frame for a block-type parallel mounting of catalyst plates is provided. The block mounting has frame members separated by a distance substantially corresponding to the width of the catalyst plates to be mounted. The frame members are provided with a series of guide slots open on top for admission of the catalyst plates. On the bottom edges of the frame members, there are provided base supports for the bottom edges of the catalyst plates. The frame members themselves also form lateral supports for the catalyst plates to prevent movement thereof when mounted in the module. The mounting modules, once loaded with the planar elements, can be combined into a larger frame in a horizontal mode, or they can be vertically stacked, such as in the flue of a combustion furnace itself. The plates are typically pre-coated with a material that is catalytic to further the conversion of the gaseous compounds passing thereby.

Abstract: An audio disc storage container having a movable flexible, transparent wall which allows inspection of the contents, the wall having an aperture provided in it to permit insertion and removal of audio discs. The aperture in the wall may be aligned with a seal member to prevent the entrance of contaminants into the storage container which may damage the discs.

Abstract: 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 along two opposed edges of the open top. One rail has an elongated bar or ridge protruding from its upper surface and the other rail has a mating elongated groove recessed into its upper surface. To make a dump transfer, an empty carrier is inverted and placed face-to-face against a loaded carrier with the upper surfaces of the two carriers in contact. The ridge and groove of the empty carrier engage the groove and ridge of the full carrier thereby aligning the wafer slots of the two carriers. The two carrier unit is then inverted and the wafers smoothly dump from the full to the empty carrier.

Abstract: A storage tray has opposed first sets of spaced ribs forming parallel compartments and a second set of shorter ribs disposed between the first sets of ribs with the spacing being one first rib and one adjacent second rib being sized to slidably receive one single compact audio disc box, so that two single compact audio disc boxes fit every compartment. Two adjacent single boxes may be removed, and then one dual audio disc box is received in the compartment between adjacent first ribs, and with the second rib being slidably received in the back recess of a conventional dual audio disc box. The storage tray is self-interlocking with another storage tray so as to form a self-constructing cabinet.

Abstract: 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. An elongated pressure exerting retention strip located in the top portion of each shelf is constructed of a flat sheet-like strip of a springlike material having a plurality of transfer slits therein. The strip lateral edges are confined in a pair of spaced apart grooves distending the strip to engage and hold cartridges on the shelf. In another version, a strip of a plastic foam is located on either the shelf top surface with a thin strip of a material having low frictional sliding surface thereon, such as Mylar, for example, being located thereover.

Abstract: 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 said tracks. Apertures are located in the panels to increase the visability of the items contained within the rack, and ridges are positioned adjacent the apertures to support the items and give strength to the housing.

Abstract: A container for thin rigid envelopes, each of which is a solid and has length greater than width the thickness much less than width--such as the package for a compact disc record album--having connected lower and upper levels. The lower level defines transverse and longitudinal axes of the container as well as a number of cavities with upwardly-disposed open ends, and the upper level comprises an exterior retaining wall and opposed ledges extending at an angle from the wall. An envelope may be inserted, width-edge down, into and held in one of the cavities; alternatively, such envelope may be placed on the upper level, length-wise on its lower edge and transverse the longitudinal axis of the container, with its lower corners supported, respectively, by the ledges. A spacer may be inserted into a cavity to separate the envelopes into distinct organizational groupings.

Abstract: 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 holding cases and a handle on the tape cartridge transport case so that the tape cartridge transport case can be transported from one location to another location.

Abstract: 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 storage region extending between the side walls for receiving a boxed compact disk or a pair of unboxed cassettes and each having a shelf spaced from the rear wall for defining a second storage region of width corresponding to that of a boxed compact cassette and depth less than the width of a boxed compact cassette for storing a boxed compact cassette so that it protrudes slightly beyond the free ends of the side walls.

Abstract: 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 an H-bar end with a configured rod reinforced open H-front which is fully functional and strategically located. The dividers are supported by one or two pairs of longitudinal horizontal supports secured to the ends providing for an open area between each of the dividers for passage of liquids during automated processing, and vertical support bars are provided for strengthening of positioning members of the cassette. The rear end includes a downward arch. The processing wafer cassette provides for "on-center" processing where the carrier center of gravity is on-center of the axis of centrifugal wafer processing machinery.

Abstract: 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 display capacity and improved visibility of the displayed articles. The shelf brackets may be adjustably and removably attached to vertical panels and the modular components may be sized for display of a wide variety of articles.

Abstract: 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. The side walls have extenders (14) joining them to the front wall.

Abstract: 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 guide rails accommodate discs in two rows, the discs being supported in a stair-step manner so that identifying labels applied to the top borders of the discs are always visible. A transparent cover element is hinged to the container, and the disc labels are visible even when the cover element is closed. The cover element is releaseably lockable in its closed and opened positions. The base member is supported like an easel when the cover element is locked in its open position, thereby facilitating selection and use of the discs. Furthermore a molded-in ledge permits the container to be used as a copy holder when it is opened to its easel-stand position.

Abstract: A plurality of strip of stretchable knit or woven fabric are arranged in substantially parallel relationship and removably connected at its ends to a housing. Each strip may display a plurality of items of jewelry having pins that pierce through the fabric. The side edges of the strips of fabric are used for mounting clip on earrings. The ends of each strip are removably connected to a housing to allow easy attachment or removal thereof from the housing, so that each strip may be independently removed for carrying, exhibiting the jewelry thereon, and the like. The strips may be spaced apart so that projecting studs may project through the spaces in between in order to allow for rings to be displayed or stored thereby. The housing may also take the form of a pair spaced apart rotatable disks, so that each strip may be accessed more readily.

Abstract: 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 the transverse center line is adapted to engage the lateral edge of the disc when in the fixed position; a second V-grooved member fixed in the compartment generally adjacent and disposed on the opposite side of the longitudinal center line from the first member in a back portion of the compartment is adapted to engage the back edge of the disc when in the fixed position; a securing lever pivotally mounted in the compartment generally adjacent and forward of the transverse center line and urged in one direction by a spring has a third V-grooved member adapted to engage another lateral edge and hold the record disc resiliently against the first and second members in the fixed position; and a fourth V-grooved

Abstract: A series of laterally spaced elongated inverted T-shaped bars are coupled together at opposite ends by transversely extending hollow tubes projecting within thin wall tube clamps fixed to the upper surface of the bars at respective ends to form a printed circuit board carrier or rack. The clamps may be loosened for spreading the inverted T-shaped support bars to conform to the width of the printed circuit board whose edges lie adjacent a slotted spline or rail with the edges of the board supported by the base of the inverted T-shaped bars. Alternatively, the plurality of printed circuit boards may be inserted within aligned transverse slots within the splines. Headed bolts projecting upwardly through the ends of the bar, each bear a nut for clamping the thin wall tube clamp onto the top of the base portion of the bars on the ends remote from the spline.

Abstract: A system for storing and dispensing a magnetic tape cartridges having a plurality of rows (10) of pivotal storage cells (14) within a frame (2) each cell has a cartridge-discharge end and a rear wall (22) at the opposite end. A support (12) is located beneath the cell and pivot means (16) are located intermediate the ends of the cell to permit the cell to pivot on the support means relative to the horizontal. Means are provided to limit the amount of pivotal movement of the cell relative to the horizontal. The center of gravity of the cell is located closer to the cartridge-discharge end than to the rear wall end. The cartridge-discharge end of the cell normally is inclined to pivot downwardly relative to the horizontal. Means (78) are provided to limit the amount of pivotal movement of the cartridge-discharge end of the cell at substantially a horizontal position. Means (15) are also provided to offer resistance to the downward pivotal movement of the rear wall end of the cell.

Abstract: 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 is provided around the access opening at the front of the outer housing. The outer housing is mounted, by means of integral hubs, from a support by means of a yoke. The hubs are relatively rotatable with respect to the yoke to permit the outer housing to be positioned in a desired angular orientation.

Abstract: A container suitable for storing compact discs conveyed in motor vehicles comprises a housing from which the stored discs can be ejected by means of a single transporter associated with a plurality of discs. The transporter may be selectively coupled to only one disc holder. The transporter is preferably a slider member which is arranged to slide in the housing, can be locked in the housing against a spring bias and unlocked manually, and has a front wall to cover the open front of the housing when the slider member is inserted. The selector mechanism and the unlocking operation can be actuated from the outside of this front wall.

Abstract: 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 wall of the cell and has a member projecting toward the discharge end of the cell. The spacer clip is engageable with the rear end of the cartridge when the cartridge is positioned on the bottom of the cell with its front end adjacent the front cartridge-discharge end of the cell.

Abstract: A storage device for storing a plurality of disc-shaped articles, or discs includes a support having a support surface for supporting the discs. The support includes bias means to bias the discs towards rolling along the support. The device further includes releasable restraining means to restrain the discs against rolling under the effect of the bias means. In one embodiment of the invention, the support surface of the support includes a sloping portion which provides the bias means in the form of a gravity bias. In another embodiment of the invention, the support includes a hinged portion pivotally mounted on a floor of the device, and the bias means is a spring bias acting between the floor and the hinged portion.

Abstract: 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 area of the groove and a rear support face angled upwardly and rearwardly from the area of the groove. At least one support face of a pair associated with a groove has the undercut portion disposed from the plane of the opposing support face by a distance not less than and substantially equal to the thickness of the diskette to be held, and preferably parallel to the opposing support face. In the preferred embodiment, the diskette support means are positioned at only one end of each groove and successively alternating grooves have the support means at alternating ends of the grooves. Stop means at opposite ends of the grooves position the diskettes laterally and preventing lateral movement.

Abstract: A cabinet for the storage and carrying of a plurality of phonograph record albums in non-warping disposition is comprised of a box-like structure having top, bottom, rear and side panels and having a pivoted, fold-away carrying handle and open front extremity. The carrying handle is positioned in the top panel such that the center of gravity of the cabinet is rearward of the handle. The combined effect of the position of the handle and its pivoted nature causes the open front extremity of the cabinet to be angled upwardly when the cabinet is carried by the handle. Several such cabinets may be stacked in stabilized configuration because of the fold-away characteristic of the handle, and interengaging depressions and projections in the upper and lower panels.

Abstract: 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 deterrent.

Abstract: 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 by the bottom rails between the end pieces to provide successive slots in which diskettes or their envelopes can be inserted and resiliently held temporarily.

Abstract: 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 of platforms carried by the end caps about the central post. The elements of the canister are preferably constructed from hydrocarbon-based polymers and, after loading, the canister is sealed in shrink film so that the discs are protected in an environment which is free of particulate matter.

Abstract: 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 sheet material having ribs formed diagonally across a platform. The ribs are hollow, being constituted by folds in the sheet material. Dividers are located in the hollow interiors of the ribs. The boxes are lightly gripped between either the ribs or the dividers. Besides video cassette boxes, the rack is applicable to books when they are of standard thickness, and to other objects.

Abstract: 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 cassette supports a plurality of memory disks through perimeter contact of a rounded side and separated by teeth. The top cover includes a plurality of fingers which extend downwardly from the top cover, the fingers movable with respect to each other for engaging each disk independently of each other. The disks are separated by teeth having a rounded profile and a flat portion therebetween for perimeter contact with the disks, the teeth being longitudinal in length and running about the rounded sides and sides of the box.

Abstract: A rack is disclosed for storing food processor tool discs of the type having a receptacle or socket structure offset from its axis of rotation and located beneath the lower surface of the disc for receiving the upper end of a removable elongated hub on which the tool disc is mounted during operation, such receptacle having a generally crescent-like configuration. The rack includes a base having a plurality of parallel slots for receiving the tool discs and a vertical wall extending upwardly alongside each slot. Each of the vertical walls includes an offset portion for receiving the crescent-like hub receptacle of the tool disc.

Abstract: Centrally apertured discs which are to be subjected on one side to a treatment such as the deposition of a layer of material on the disc are carried on disc holders in a magazine which comprises a pair of opposed parallel walls and which has an open side between these walls through which the disc holders can be inserted in and removed from the magazine. The disc holders each comprise a rigid plate and attachment means for attaching a centrally apertured disc to each side of the plate, the attachment means engaging in the central aperture of each disc. The plate has at least one pair of opposed parallel edges for cooperation with guide rollers which are provided on the inner sides of the opposed walls of the magazine for guiding the disc holders during their insertion in and removal from the magazine in directions parallel to the opposed edges of the plates.

Abstract: 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 rod reinforced open front which is fully functional and strategically located. The dividers are supported by longitudinal horizontal supports secured to the ends providing for open area between each of the dividers for passage of liquids during automated processing. The cassette provides open area about the H-bar end. The rear end which includes a downward arch and through the dividers for open, non-restricted automated processing of wafers. The processing wafer cassette provides for "on-center" processing where the carrier center of gravity is on-center of the axis of centrifugal wafer processing machinery.

Abstract: A novel apparatus for forming depletion-free uniform thickness CVD thin-film on semiconductor wafers includes a diffusion furnace, a boat loader coupled to the furnace for loading and removing a batch of semiconductor wafers into and out of the furnace, and a semiconductor wafer support boat for removably retaining a plurality of vertically oriented semiconductor wafers on the boat. The boat includes supporting surfaces so arranged that depletion-free uniform thickness thin-film is provided on both sides of each of the vertically oriented wafers. The semiconductor wafer support boat preferably includes two laterally spaced elongated rails each having an undulatory longitudinal section defining plural ridge portions spaced apart by plural valley portions. The ridges on one of the rails are provided with transverse slots that cooperate with confronting transverse slots provided on the confronting ridge portions on the other one of the rails to define a plurality of wafer edge receiving channels.

Abstract: A rack-mountable tape cartridge enclosure device for storing multi-sized tape cartridges such as audio and video cassettes, computer, eight-track and other types of data storage cartridges. A generally box-like front loading enclosure containing a plurality of parallel vertical dividers to separate the cartridges. Each divider has at least two vertical portions, each portion being of greater width than those above. Interlocking corrugations on the sides of the enclosures provide for connecting two or more devices. Detachable mounting members not only include such corrugations for attachment to an enclosure, but also contain screw or bolt holes to mount the enclosure unit in a standard equipment rack.

Abstract: 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 substantially to the ends of the sidewalls and adjacent offsets in the sidewalls which connect to the end walls of the receptacle, one end wall being H-shaped and having a cross bar panel with elongate parallel stiffener bars thereon at the level of the bottom edge of the wafer confining panels in the sidewalls, the stiffener bars in the end walls having their ends spaced from the sidewalls.

Abstract: 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 groove in spaced relationship for receiving and holding a phonograph record jacket in a vertical position with the open end of the jacket on top, and further having means thereon for holding the open end of the jacket and liner in spread-apart position to thereby permit the easy grasping of the contained record and its removal from the jacket and liner.

Abstract: 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 separated transverse ledges, each of which can support the lower edges of several upstanding albums (laterally overlapping). The backing support and its rows of upstanding albums is loosely overlaid lengthwise (vertically) by a restraining member such as a cord or chain which thus holds the total albums in place while allowing any individual album to be manually withdrawn and replaced laterally.

Abstract: A filing unit for storage and retrieval of magnetic recording disks is disclosed. The unit includes a plurality of pockets or storage panels which can be removably stored in a modular holder and the holder itself can be combined with various other filing components, such as a storage binder having front and rear covers or a desk-top filing stand. In the preferred embodiment, the pocket is carried by a file bar affixed along one edge thereof. The holder includes a plurality of parallel channels each adapted to pivotally receive the file bar of a storage panel. Each channel includes retaining lugs which straddle the channel and are flexible to permit snap-insertion and removal of the bar from the holder.

Abstract: There is disclosed a rotary rack for storing record albums. The rack has a turntable rotatably mounted on a support base. Extending vertically from the center of the turntable is a cylinder. The cylinder has pairs of associated apertures located about the periphery near the top. A rod is inserted through a pair of apertures to effectively divide the turntable into a series of wedge like compartments. Located about the surface of the turntable are extending posts to maintain the position of a stack of albums standing on their edges and retained between the rods and posts forming the compartments.