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US 4,057,305 AGranted
Rotatable cassette holder
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorWilliam Thomas Zdeblick
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Abstract
A cassette storage device retains cassettes in arcuately spaced relation for rotation about a horizontal axis which provides visual access with the cassettes being received in channels that confine end portions. Retention is affected by the use of the bosses on the cassette which are retained in slotted openings in web surfaces of the channels and releasability is achieved by the resiliency of the material which forms the holder.
Claims10
A recording tape cassette container comprising
- a base member presenting horizontally spaced trunion supporting surfaces formed about a horizontal axis;
- a cassette retaining holder including horizontally spaced trunion projections mounted on said base member supporting surfaces for rotation about a horizontal axis;
- spaced opposed channels including web and flange surfaces formed in said holder for receiving tape cassettes in angularly spaced, spoke-like relation about said horizontal axis;
- and
- retaining means in said opposed channel web surfaces for releaseably securing said cassettes respectively in said spaced, opposed channels.
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A recording tape cassette container comprising
- a base member;
- a cassette holder assembly;
- and
- means for mounting said cassette holder assembly on said base member for rotation about a horizontal axis;
- said cassette holder assembly including a cassette holder formed of resilient material and presenting opposed, aligned channel pairs for receiving a cassette in each of said channel pairs in generally spoke-like fashion about said horizontal axis, and
- recess means in the web surface portion of each of said aligned channels to receive a boss projecting from the end surface of a cassette received in such channel whereby the cassette is releaseably retained by said cassette holder.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.