Apparatus for storing and retrieving compact disks

Abstract

Apparatus for storing and retrieving compact disks affords facile screening of numerous disks to locate a desired disk by employing pouches or dividers having identification tabs situated along a circular periphery and misaligned with one another which allows the user to view many tabs simultaneously.

1 ) Apparatus for storing and retrieving compact disks, comprising: 
 a plurality of dual sided pouches, each having an open upper portion for receiving an individual disk and having a circular periphery in its upper portion and a tab situated along the periphery for identifying that disk;    support means having a longitudinal axis for engaging and positioning said pouches adjacent to one another with their planar surfaces perpendicular to said axis, and    means for arranging and restricting the movement of said pouches whereby their tabs are misaligned when viewed along said longitudinal axis.    
   
   
       2 ) The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein said support means comprises two end members and two rods which extend therebetween for engaging said pouches.  
   
   
       3 ) The apparatus of  claim 2  wherein each of said pouches has a lower portion with two slotted apertures for press fitting said pouches onto said rods to effect engagement therebetween.  
   
   
       4 ) The apparatus of  claim 3  wherein the lower portion of each of said pouches has three straight edges perpendicular to one another and the two slotted apertures are located along the edge between the other two.  
   
   
       5 ) Apparatus for storing and retrieving compact disks, comprising: 
 a plurality of dividers, each having a planar surface and an upper portion and a circular periphery in its upper portion and a tab situated along that periphery for identifying an individual disk;    support means having a longitudinal axis for engaging and positioning said dividers adjacent to one another with their planar surfaces perpendicular to said axis, and means for arranging and restricting the movement of said dividers whereby their tabs are misaligned when viewed along said longitudinal axis.    
   
   
       6 ) The apparatus of  claim 5  wherein said support means comprises two end members and two rods which extend therebetween for engaging said dividers.  
   
   
       7 ) The apparatus of  claim 6  wherein each of said dividers has a lower portion with two slotted apertures for press fitting said dividers onto said rods to effect engagement therebetween.  
   
   
       8 ) The apparatus of  claim 7  wherein the lower portion of each of said dividers has three straight edges perpendicular to one another and the two slotted apertures are located along the edge between the other two.  
   
   
       9 ) A plurality of dual sided pouches for storing and retrieving compact disks, said pouches having the same peripheral configuration which includes a circular upper segment and a tab for identifying the stored disk located along that circular segment wherein the tab of one pouch is misaligned with the tabs of the other pouches when said pouches are coextensively aligned with one another.  
   
   
       10 ) The plurality of dual sided pouches of  claim 9  wherein said pouches have a lower portion with two slotted apertures for engaging a pair of parallel rods.