US3731794A - Packaging gramophone records - Google Patents

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US3731794A
US3731794A US00224488A US3731794DA US3731794A US 3731794 A US3731794 A US 3731794A US 00224488 A US00224488 A US 00224488A US 3731794D A US3731794D A US 3731794DA US 3731794 A US3731794 A US 3731794A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
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    • B65D85/544—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles of special shape not otherwise provided for for gramophone records
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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    • B65D85/54—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles of special shape not otherwise provided for
    • B65D85/544—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles of special shape not otherwise provided for for gramophone records
    • B65D85/548—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles of special shape not otherwise provided for for gramophone records formed by folding or interconnecting of two or more blanks
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • a package for a gramophone record includes an outer sleeve comprising a pair of side members connected on three edges by flaps integral with one side member and each folded to provide a spine and a marginal flap adhered to the other side member, and an inner sleeve for receiving a record and provided with a spacer on one side member thereof which faces the other outer sleeve side member, the spacer having a thickness equal to the thickness of that part of each marginal flap overlapped by a record when received in the package.
  • the spacer may be adhered to or integral with the inner sleeve.
  • 1,220,632 to adhere an extra panel to the inner surface of the side member in question to make up the difference in thickness at the center of sleeve, so that an enclosed record is supported at the edges by the flap portions and at the center by the extra panel.
  • This has a number of disadvantages among which are that the extra panel has to be adhered to the side member when the sleeve is being made up necessitating modification of the sleeve makeup machinery and that an image of the panel appears on the outer surface of the sidemember thereby spoiling the sleeve appearance.
  • a package for a gramophone record comprising an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve received by the outer sleeve and in which a record is received, the outer sleeve comprising a pair of side members connected on at least two edges by flaps integral with one side member and folded to provide a spine and a marginal flap adhered to the inner surface of the other side member, the inner sleeve comprising a pair of side members and wherein that inner sleeve side member facing the other outer sleeve side member is provided centrally thereof with a spacer member having an overall thickness which is equal to the thickness of that part of each marginal flap which is overlapped by a record when received in the package.
  • FIG. 1 is part of a central section through a filled outer sleeve as described in any of British Patent specifications Nos. 1,231,771 and 1,119,823 or in the complete specification of British Patent application No. 34209/69 showing how distortions can occur;
  • FIGS. 2 to 5 are parts of central sections through embodiments of a record package with an inner sleeve according to the invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a plan view of an inner sleeve.
  • the record margins overlap and are supported by the double flap portions 5 while the center of the record is unsupported.
  • the record will therefore tend to be distorted to the shape shown in broken lines.
  • a similar distortion will occur if the filled sleeve is stacked the other way up, with the record margins overlapping and being supported on flap portions 6.
  • the board sleeve 3 has doublefolded marginal flaps 4 on the three closed edges and may have a correspondingly folded closure on the open edge.
  • Two spacer members 7, 8 are adhered to the inner sleeve 2 at the center thereof.
  • the spacer members are made of the same board as the outer sleeve 3, the member 7 being made of two thicknesses of the board to correspond to the double thickness flap portion 5 and the member 8 being made of a single thickness of board corresponding to the single thickness inner flap portion 6.
  • the outer sleeve 3 has been modified by the provision of arcuate cutouts in flap portions 6 and in the inner layer 5a, of double thickness flap portions 5 on the three closed edges and on the open edge of the sleeve. These cutouts can be made without impairing the strength of the sleeve to too great an extent. No cut-out is made in the outer layer 5b of flap portions 5 so that the sleeve is not weakened. The thickness of that part of each flap portion 5 overlapped by the record is therefore compensated for by the provision of a single thickness board spacer member 9 on the inner sleeve 2. In this embodiment the total width of the spines 4 is less by double the thickness of the board than that of the spines of the sleeves of FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • the spacers of the same board it is of course not necessary to make the spacers of the same board as that from which the outer sleeve is made. This is merely convenient as it automatically provides a spacer of the required thickness. Furthermore the or each spacer need not have a continuous thickness of the required amount.
  • the or each spacer may be formed with projections such that the overall thickness of the spacer is equal to the thickness of the flap portions for which compensation is required.
  • Such a spacer may, for example, be formed of corrugated sheet material, e.g. paper or board, of the required thickness or of vacuum formed plastics sheeting provided with bosses, parallel or intersecting ribs or some other upstanding design, for example of a portrait of the artist recorded on the enclosed record.
  • the outer sleeve 3 has the construction shown in FIG. 2.
  • the inner sleeve 2 is made of plastics material and is formed with spacer members 12, 13 in either side member of the sleeve to compensate for the thickness of flap portions and 6.
  • Each spacer member 12, 13 is formed with parallel ribs 11, the ribs of the member 12 being twice as deep as those of member 12.
  • the record 1 is enclosed in a plastics inner sleeve 2 which is located in an outer board sleeve 3 provided with spines 4 on its three closed edges each of which is formed by a flap integral with one sleeve side member which is folded to provide the spine 4 and a marginal flap portion 5 adhered to the other sleeve side member to complete the sleeve edge.
  • the sleeve 3 may also be provided with a correspondingly folded closure on its open edge.
  • Diametrically opposite marginal portions of the record 1 are supported on the flap portions 5 and the center of the record is supported by a spacer member integral with the inner sleeve 2.
  • the spacer member 10 is vacuum formed with intersecting ribs 11 as in the embodiment of FIG. 4.
  • the members 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 may be circular in plan as shown in FIG. 6 or polygonal as desired and may have a greater or lesser extent than that shown in FIG. 6. They may be printed if required.
  • the invention is applicable to any outer sleeve construction in which there are flap portions on the inner surface of one side member which are overlapped by an enclosed record and on which marginal portions of the record may be supported when the filled sleeve is horizontal.
  • a package for a gramophone record comprising an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve received by the outer sleeve and in which a record is received, said outer sleeve comprising a pair of side members connected on at least two edges by flaps integral with one of said side members and folded to provide a spine and a marginal flap adhered to the inner surface of the other of said side members, said inner sleeve comprising a pair of side members with that one of said inner sleeve side members facing the other of said outer sleeve side members being provided centrally thereof with a spacer member having an overall thickness which is equal to the thickness of that part of each said marginal flap which is overlapped by said record in the package.
  • each of said flaps is folded to provide a double thickness marginal flap portion and said spacer member has an overall thickness equal to the thickness of the double thickness of said marginal flap portions.
  • each of said flaps is folded to provide a double thickness marginal flap portion, the inner layer of each of which is cut away centrally thereof so that said record received in the package overlaps only the outer layers of said marginal flap portions and said spacer member has an overall thickness equal to the thickness of said outer layers of said marginal flap portions.
  • each of said flaps is folded to provide a double thickness spine and an inner flap portion which overlies the inner surface of said one member and is overlapped by said record in the package, and a second spacer is provided on the other of said inner sleeve side members centrally thereof and having an overall thickness equal to the thickness of said inner flap portions.
  • each of said flaps is folded to provide a double thickness spine and an inner flap portion which overlies the inner surface of said one member and is overlapped by said record in the package, and a second spacer is provided on the other of said inner sleeve side members centrally thereof and having an overall thickness equal to the thickness of said inner flap portions.
  • said spacer is made of that material from which said outer sleeve is made and is adhered to said inner sleeve.
  • a package according to claim 1 wherein said spacer is formed of sheet material provided with projections whose depth constitutes said overall thickness thereof.
  • each said inner sleeve side member is vacuum formedwith projections constituting the said spacer member.
  • a package for a gramophone record comprising an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve received by the outer sleeve and in which a record is received, said outer sleeve comprising a pair of side members connected on three edges by flaps integral with one of said side members and each folded to provide a double thickness spine and marginal flap portion which is adhered to the inner surface of the other of said side members and an inner flap portion which overlies the inner surface of said one side member, said inner sleeve comprising a pair of side members, and wherein said inner sleeve side members each being provided centrally thereof with a spacer member having an overall thick-mess which is equal to the thickness of that part of said flap portions overlying the surface of that one of said outer sleeve side members which it faces, and which are overlapped by said record in the package.

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GB572771A GB1364881A (en) 1971-03-01 1971-03-01 Grammophone record sleeve assemblies
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US3994395A (en) * 1973-12-03 1976-11-30 Bennett Robertson Mavis Marion Article storage device
US4247002A (en) * 1978-01-19 1981-01-27 Horian Richard C Antistatic record envelope
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US2807359A (en) * 1955-10-25 1957-09-24 Kenneth G Mckiernan Jacket for phonograph records
US3307772A (en) * 1964-07-29 1967-03-07 Garrod Norman John Gramophone record sleeves
US3349990A (en) * 1967-03-01 1967-10-31 Arkell And Smiths Multi-wall mailing container
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US2458737A (en) * 1947-02-26 1949-01-11 Mortimer B Salkowitz Shockproof bottle container
US2691440A (en) * 1953-02-02 1954-10-12 Spugios Aristos George Package for phonograph records
US2807359A (en) * 1955-10-25 1957-09-24 Kenneth G Mckiernan Jacket for phonograph records
US3307772A (en) * 1964-07-29 1967-03-07 Garrod Norman John Gramophone record sleeves
US3349990A (en) * 1967-03-01 1967-10-31 Arkell And Smiths Multi-wall mailing container
GB1220632A (en) * 1968-08-10 1971-01-27 Norman John Garrod Improvements in or relating to gramophone record sleeves

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US3994395A (en) * 1973-12-03 1976-11-30 Bennett Robertson Mavis Marion Article storage device
US3942639A (en) * 1975-04-07 1976-03-09 Barry Wright Corporation Disk guard device
US4247002A (en) * 1978-01-19 1981-01-27 Horian Richard C Antistatic record envelope
US20070181656A1 (en) * 2006-06-21 2007-08-09 Butler Business Services, Inc. Mailpieces that mitigate flexure of held articles during automated handling
US20080000951A1 (en) * 2006-06-21 2008-01-03 Butler Business Services, Inc. Mailpieces that mitigate flexure of held articles during automated handling

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