Sports card sleeve box

Claim 1

In a sports card sleeve storage box, the combination comprising a) a receptacle having a bottom wall, upstanding side walls and upstanding end walls, b) and a cover fitting onto the receptacle, and having a top wall, depending side wall adjacent the respective side walls of the receptacle, and depending end walls adjacent the respective end walls of the receptacle, c) the receptacle sized to receive and orient a multiplicity of sports card sleeves, in a stack, d) and first means proximate upper extents of certain of said receptacle walls and second means proximate upper extents of certain of said cover walls for releasably interfitting below the cover top wall in response to reception of the receptacle into the cover thereby to releasably lock the cover to the receptacle without interfering with the reception and orientation of the sleeves into the receptacle, e) said first means comprising two tangs spaced apart lengthwise along each of said receptacle side walls and at the tops thereof, and said second means comprising two grooves spaced apart lengthwise along each of said cover side walls and at the tops thereof, said tangs releasably fitting into said grooves with detent action only when said cover is fully closed onto said receptacle, f) and including a through opening in a cover side wall and extending into proximity to lower edges thereof, for finger reception to pull the cover off the receptacle, said through opening extending vertically towards an upper portion of said cover side wall located between and spaced from said two grooves at the top of said cover side wall.