Compact disc storage rack

Claim 1

In combination, a plurality of rigid compact disc record containers and a rack assembly holding said plurality of compact disc containers, each container having substantially rigid planar front and rear surfaces with oppositely disposed edges that space the surfaces apart a finite thickness, said rack assembly having a planar panel, axially spaced ledges, said ledges having outer lips and extending at right angles from said planar panel, said ledges spaced apart less than the dimension between the said oppositely disposed edges of the said containers and the lips being spaced from the planar panel substantially the distance defined by the thickness of one of the said containers, each ledge and the outer lip thereon serving as the only support and as the sole retaining means for the containers in the rack, each of said lips being upwardly directed at right angles from said respective ledge, the upper inner edge of each lip defining a right angled corner which bears against the disc container associated therewith, whereby each disc container is tensioned by said upper inner edge of the lip and pressed against the outer edge of the next adjacent lip to frictionally grip the disc container in the rack assembly.