Container for video discs

Claim 1

A container for retaining, protecting and for allowing the handling without manual contact of a flexible video-disc having a circular central opening for its transfer and its driving in rotation, said container including a substantially rectangular protecting envelope jacket having one of its edges open and three others closed and a substantially flat, quadrilateral, tray-shaped supporting plate slideably displaceable within said envelope for carrying said video-disc; said supporting plate including, at its rear, engaging means for allowing its mechanical handling to and from the envelope, at its front, means for facilitating its insertion and positioning inside said envelope, a central opening greater than that of said disc for allowing the transfer thereof and, on one of its sides, a plurality of arcuate, normally orientated projections, concentric with said central opening for providing a circular hollow seating closely surrounding the circumference of the disc when centered, said envelope including a stop projecting from and integral with at least one of its inner walls, and means for centering the disc on said plate, wherein the improvement comprises that the width of said supporting plate and the distance between at least a portion of the inner walls of the parallel lateral closed edges of the envelope are made to be substantially equal to the diameter of the disc and that the stop projecting inside said envelope is positioned to come into contact with the circumference of the disc and the front of the supporting plate when it is entirely inserted inside the envelope, whereby the inside of lateral edges and the stop of the envelope cooperate to position said disc with its central opening concentrical with that of said support whatever the orientation of the container.