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Book-like stacked array with cover

a technology of article trays and trays, which is applied in the field of stacked arrays of article trays having a cover, can solve the problems of tearing away structurally damaged the back portion of the cover, trays are rigid, and cannot be fully accommodated

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-01-04
ATLAS AGI HLDG
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A problem in using a stacked array of trays with a cover is that when the trays are pivoted from a single stack configuration, stresses are often place upon the cover that cause the cover to pull away from where it is attached to the trays.
This tearing away structurally damages the back portion of the cover and is also undesirable aesthetically.
This problem occurs because the trays are rigid and have widths that cannot be fully accommodated by the spine portion of the cover.
This problem also arises in other book-like stacked arrays.

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[0014] Throughout the drawings, the same reference numerals are used to denote the same or like features of the invention.

[0015] Referring first to FIG. 1, therein is illustrated a package 10 that is a stacked array 30 of trays for articles having a cover 20 in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention. Referred now also to FIG. 2, the package 10 of FIG. 1 is shown in upright condition with the individual trays 32 joined along a spine 33 partially fanned like the pages of a book about their region of common joinder that is, the spine 33. In FIG. 2, the elements of the cover 20 can be seen. The cover 20 has a front portion and back portion 24 / 26 joined by a spine 28. The back portion has one portion, a back cover portion, 24 that is affixed by adherence or other means to the bottom, or base, tray 34 of the array 30 of trays beyond a line of joinder or hinge line 25 that is offset from the line of joinder or hinge line 27 that hingedly adjoins the cover spine 28 to the ...

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Abstract

A book-like stacked array having a spine and a cover has a stacked array of planar-like articles having a spine and a cover having a cover spine and a back cover portion hingedly adjoining said cover spine along a first hinge line and attached to an outermost one of said planar-like articles beyond a second hinge line that is offset from said first hinge line such that when said stacked array is placed in open condition tearing away of the back cover portion from said outermost one of said planar-like articles is mitigated.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] (N / A) STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT [0002] (N / A) BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] The invention relates to stacked arrays of article trays, and more particularly to a hinged stacked array of article trays having a cover with offset attachment to the stack. [0004] Manufactures often desire to package articles that they sell in packages that contain multiples of the article. Often, the package for containing multiples of the article may be used as a permanent storage device for reusable articles. [0005] Trays are often used as storage mechanisms for disc-shaped articles such as compact discs (CD's), digital versatile discs (DVD's) and similarly shaped disc-like information storage mediums. A useful configuration for packaging multiple disc-shaped articles is a stacked array of trays. In such a stacked array, the trays are often hinged to one another for ease in accessing individual trays while maintaini...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B65D73/00B65D85/62
CPCG11B33/0444
Inventor GELARDI, JOHN A.EXNER, DANALADWIG, DAVID P.PREWETT, ANDREW
Owner ATLAS AGI HLDG
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