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US 4,087,844 AGranted
Tape recorders with cassette loading and ejecting mechanisms
AssigneeNew Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsChoku Takahashi, Katsutoshi Kinoshita
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AssigneeNew Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsChoku Takahashi, Katsutoshi Kinoshita
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The tape recorder is provided with a cassette guiding device including a tiltable cassette loading platform pivotably mounted at one end, spring means for normally holding the platform in an inclined position for receiving an inserted cassette and for permitting the platform to rotate to the horizontal position, a guide member for loading the cassette at an operating position when the platform is rotated to the horizontal position. A cassette containing chamber is formed by a cassette inserting section provided with an opening for passing the cassette, a door for normally closing the opening and shoulders for guiding the cassette to the platform, and a cassette loading section containing the cassette loading platform. There is provided a door operating mechanism including a door locking member for locking the door in the opened position, a sliding member interlocked with the door locking member, and a door operating button mounted on the sliding member for causing the door locking member to release the door. There is also provided a cassette ejecting mechanism including an ejecting button interlocked with the door such that the ejecting button is operable when the door is opened but not operable when the door is closed and a cassette push-up lever operated by the ejecting button for returning the cassette loading platform to the inclined position.
A cassette tape recorder comprising a cassette loading section wholly containing a cassette loading platform rotatably mounted at one end thereof, means for normally maintaining said cassette loading platform at an inclined position at the time of inserting a cassette into the tape recorder with the other end of the platform maintained at a higher level than said one end, said means permitting said platform to rotate to the horizontal position, a fixed guide member having a vertical guide surface along which said cassette is led for loading said cassette at a predetermined operating position when said cassette loading platform is rotated to the horizontal position, and a cassette inserting section provided with an opening thereto for inserting the cassette, said opening having a sufficiently large width and height to allow insertion of the fingers of the operator to load and unload the cassette from the inserting section into the cassette loading section, said inserting section having shoulders for guiding the cassette, while maintaining the same at a horizontal posture, to said other end of the cassette loading platform.
A cassette tape recorder comprising a cassette containing chamber having an opening for passing a cassette;
A cassette tape recorder comprising a cassette inserting section including an opening for passing a cassette;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.