Storage receptacle for magnetic tape cassette

A storage receptacle for a magnetic tape cassette having a casing containing rotatable tape supply and takeup reels with reels hubs exposed at openings in the casing:

• said storage receptacle comprising a housing having spaced apart, parallel side walls which, between their forward edges, define an opening at the front of the housing;
• and a holder pivotally connected with the housing for swinging movement through said front opening of the housing between an opened position in which said holder projects forwardly from said housing and a closed position in which said holder closes said front opening of the housing and is substantially contained in the latter, said holder including side walls movable between said side walls of the housing and being spaced apart for slidable insertion and removal of a cassette between said side walls of the holder with the latter in said opened position, and flexibly resilient stop elements normally projecting inwardly from one of said side walls of the holder for engaging said reel hubs of the cassette when the latter is disposed in the holder for resisting turning of the supply and takeup reels, said flexibly resilient stop elements being deflectable by said casing of a cassette out of the path of movement of the latter between said side walls of the holder during said slidable insertion and removal of the cassette therebetween.