Tape cassette storage container
AssigneeGilfin International (F.T.) Ltd.
InventorRobert F. Haswell
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Abstract
A tape cassette storage container comprises a rigid backing frame member (50,51, 56, 57), provided on one side with fastening means for attachment of the container to a support member, and a series of successive adjacent storage compartments or pockets (61) for individual tape cassettes (65), in which the cassettes (65) are stored generally edge-to-edge, so that the cassettes (65) lie generally parallel or at a slight inclination to the plane of the backing frame member (50).
Claims3
A tape cassette storage container comprising a generally rigid backing frame member, mounting means on said backing frame member for attachment to a support member, a plurality of successive adjacent storage compartments for storing individual tape cassettes with their corresponding edges adjacent and marginally overlying one another in a cross-sectional stepwise configuration, said compartments including opposed side walls, internal projections on opposed internal side surfaces of each compartment side wall providing spring bias means to positively engage the side edges of a cassette therein, a support ledge in each compartment and bridging said side walls, spool locating ribs on each said support ledge to engage and inhibit rotation of the tapes spools of individual cassettes, said storage container being fabricated as an integral moulding of synthetic plastics material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.