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US 4,778,228 AGranted
Container for the storage of magnetic tape cassettes or other recording media
AssigneeIDN Inventions and Development of Novelties AG
InventorPeter Ackeret
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Abstract
A container for video magnetic-tape cassettes, compact phonographic disks or similar recording media, with a housing and a slide which is displaceable into an opening position by a prestressing spring after a lock has been released. The slide carries a front plate which closes the housing and which moves aside during opening, so that the cassette or the like can be grasped conveniently. A common housing preferably contains several slides. A blocking lock can be provided. Outwardly identical housings can contain slides adapted either to cassettes or to compact phonographic disks or to other recording media.
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A container for the storage of articles, such as magnetic-tape cassettes, compact phonographic disks, or other recording media, comprising:
- a housing having an opening in one side thereof,
- a transport slide guided in said housing for translational sliding movement relative to said housing,
- an ejector spring operatively connected between said slide and said housing and adapted to convey said slide relative to said housing into an extraction position for the extraction of the article stored in said housing,
- a locking means for locking said slide in a stored position in said housing against the bias of said ejector spring,
- a front plate-carried by said slide and adapted to close said opening when said slide is locked,
- a pivotable connecting means between said slide and said front plate for pivotably connecting said slide and said front plate such that it is pivotable between a first storage position and a second extraction position when said slide is in said extraction position, and
- a spring means operatively connected to said front plate and said slide for moving said front plate to said extraction position even when said housing is oriented so that said second extraction position is above said first storage position.
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A container for the storage of articles, such as magnetic-tape cassettes, compact phonographic disks, or other recording media, comprising:
- a housing having an opening in one side thereof,
- a transport slide guided in said housing for movement relative to said housing,
- an ejector spring operatively connected between said slide and said housing, and adapted to convey said slide relative to said housing into an extraction position for the extraction of the article stored in said housing,
- a locking means for locking said slide in a stored position in said housing against the bias of said ejector spring,
- a front plate carried by said slide and adapted to close said opening when said slide is locked,
- a pivotable connected means between said slide and said front plate for pivotably connecting said slide and said front plate such that it is pivotable between a first storage position and a second extraction position when said slide is in said extraction position, and
- a spring means operatively connected to said front plate and to said slide for moving said front plate to said extraction position and producing a bias sufficient to overcome gravity when said housing is oriented so that said second position is above said first position.
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A container for the storage of articles, such as magnetic-tape cassettes, compact phonographic disks, or other recording media, comprising:
- a housing having an opening in one side thereof,
- a transport slide guided in said housing for translational sliding movement relative to said housing,
- an ejector spring operatively connected between said slide and said housing and adapted to convey said slide relative to said housing into an extraction position for the extraction of the article stored in said housing,
- a locking means for locking said slide in a stored position in said housing against the bias of said ejector spring,
- a front plate carried by said slide and closing said opening when said slide is locked by said locking means,
- a pivotable connecting means between said slide and said front plate for pivotably connecting said slide and said front plate such that said front plate is pivotable between a first storage position and a second extraction position when said slide is in said extraction position,
- a stop means operatively connectable to said front plate for defining said extraction position, and
- a spring means operatively connected to said front plate and to said slide for moving said front plate to said extraction position, said spring means producing a bias sufficient to put said front plate in abutting relation with said stop means in said extraction position.
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A container for the storage of articles, such as magnetic-tape cassettes, compact phonographic disks, or other recording media, comprising:
- a housing having an opening in one side thereof,
- a transport slide guided in said housing for movement relative to said housing,
- an ejector spring operatively connected between said slide and said housing and adapted to convey said slide relative to said housing into an extraction position for the extraction of the article stored in said housing,
- a locking means for locking said slide in a stored position in said housing against the bias of said ejector spring,
- a front plate carried by said slide and closing said opening when said slide is locked by said locking means,
- a pivotable connecting means between said slide and said front plate for pivotably connecting said slide and said front plate such that said front plate is pivotable between a first storage position and a second extraction position adapted so that the stored article can be grasped at its larger sides, when said slide is in said extraction position,
- a stop means provided at said front plate and at said slide for defining said first storage position and said second extraction position,
- a maintaining means for maintaining said front plate in said front plate extraction position,
- said front plate including a pair of front plate projections,
- said pivotable connecting means being disposed in said pair of front plate projections,
- said front plate including opposite front plate ends, and
- said pair of front plate projections extending parallel to each other from said opposite front plate ends and extending into said housing, when said slide is in said stored position.
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A container for the storage of articles, such as magnetic-tape cassettes, compact phonographic disks, or other recording media, comprising:
- a housing having an opening in one said side thereof,
- a transport slide guided in said housing for sliding movement relative to said housing, and defining at least in part a storage space for storage of the article,
- an ejector spring operatively connected between said slide and said housing and adapted to convey said slide relative to said housing into an extraction position for the extraction of the article stored in said housing,
- a locking means for locking said slide in a stored position in said housing against the bias of said ejector spring,
- a front plate carried by said slide and closing said opening when said slide is locked by said locking means,
- a pivotable connecting means between said slide and said front plate for pivotably connecting said slide and said front plate such that said front plate is pivotable between a first storage position and a second extraction position when said slide is in said extraction position,
- said front plate including opposite front plate ends and a pair of front plate projections extending parallel to each other from said opposite front plate ends and extending into said housing, when said slide is in said stored position,
- said pivotable connecting means being disposed in said pair of front plate projections,
- said slide including plate-shaped slide portions extending parallel to said front plate projections, and
- said pivotable connceting means defining a pivot axis extending through said front plate projections and said plate-shaped slide portions and intersecting said storage space, said pivot axis, with said slide in said extraction position, being substantially aligned with said housing opening so as to permit said front plate to pivot unobstructed by said housing.
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A container for the storage of articles, such as magnetic-tape cassettes, compact phonographic disks, or other recording media, comprising:
- a housing having an opening in one side thereof,
- a transport slide guided in said housing for translational sliding movement relative to said housing,
- an ejector spring operatively connected between said slide and said housing and adapted to convey said slide relative to said housing into an extraction position for the extraction of the article stored in said housing,
- a locking means for locking said slide in a stored position in said housing against the bias of said ejector spring,
- a front plate carried by said slide and closing said opening when said slide is locked by said locking means,
- a connecting means between said slide and said front plate for connecting said slide and said front plate such that said front plate is movable between a first storage position and a second extraction position angularly offset from said storage position when said slide is in said extraction position,
- a stop means operatively connectable to said front plate for defining said extraction position, and
- a spring means operatively connected to said front plate and to said slide for moving said front plate to said extraction position, said spring means producing a bias sufficient to put said front plate in abutting relation with said stop means in said extraction position.
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A container for the storage of articles, such as magnetic-tape cassettes, compact phonographic disks, or other recording media, comprising:
- a housing having an opening in one side thereof,
- a transport slide guided in said housing for translational sliding movement relative to said housing,
- an ejector spring operatively connected between said slide and said housing and adapted to convey said slide relative to said housing into an extraction position for the extraction of the article stored in said housing,
- a locking means for locking said slide in a stored position in said housing against the bias of said ejector spring,
- a front plate carried by said slide and closing said opening when said slide is locked,
- a connecting means between said slide and said front plate for connecting said slide and said front plate such that said front plate is movable between a first storage position and a second extraction position angularly offset from said storage position when said slide is in said extraction position, and
- a spring means operatively connected to said front plate and said slide for moving said front plate to said extraction position even when said housing is oriented so that said second extraction position is above said first storage position.
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A container for the storage of articles, such as magnetic-tape cassettes, compact phonographic disks, or other recording media comprising:
- a housing having an opening in one side thereof,
- a transport slide guided in said housing for movement relative to said housing,
- an ejector spring operatively connected between said slide and said housing, and adapted to convey said slide relative to said housing into an extraction position for the extraction of the article stored in said housing,
- a locking means for locking said slide in a stored position in said housing against the bias of said ejector spring,
- a front plate carried by said slide and closing said opening when said slide is locked,
- a connecting means between said slide and said front plate for connecting said slide and said front plate such that said front plate is movable between a first storage position and a second extraction position angularly offset from said storage position when said slide is in said extraction position, and
- a spring means operatively connected to said front plate and to said slide for moving said front plate to said extraction position and producing a bias sufficient to overcome gravity when said housing is oriented so that said second position is above said first position.
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A container for the storage of articles, such as magnetic-tape cassettes, compact phonographic disks, or other recording media, having opposing top and bottom flat sides, comprising:
- a housing having an opening in one said thereof,
- a transport slide guided in said housing for movement relative to said housing,
- an ejector spring operatively connected between said slide and said housing and adapted to convey said slide relative to said housing into an extraction position for the extraction of the article stored in said housing,
- a locking means for locking said slide in a stored position in said housing against the bias of said ejector spring,
- a front plate carried by said slide and movable by said ejector spring between a storage position generally closing said opening when said slide is locked by said locking means and an extraction position angularly offset from said storage position and from the longitudinal axis of said slide so that the article contained by said slide can be grasped on its opposing flat sides and removed from said slide unobstructed by said front plate, and
- a spring means operatively connected to said front plate and said slide for moving said front plate to said extraction position even when said housing is oriented so that said extraction position is above said storage position.
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A container for the storage of articles, such as magnetic-tape cassettes, compact phonographic disks, or other recording media, comprising:
- a housing having an opening in one side thereof,
- a transport slide guided in said housing for translational sliding movement relative to said housing,
- an ejector spring operatively connected between said slide and said housing and adapted to convey said slide relative to said housing into an extraction position for the extraction of an article stored in said housing,
- a locking means for locking said slide in a stored position in said housing against the bias of said ejector spring,
- a front plate carried by said slide and closing said opening when said slide is locked by said locking means,
- a connecting means for connecting said slide and said front plate such that said front plate is movable between a first storage position and a second storage position angularly offset from said first storage position when said slide is in said extraction position, and
- a transmission means operatively connected between said front plate and said housing for transmitting, upon said translational sliding movement of said slide relative to said housing, a force to said front plate tending to displace said front plate into said second extraction position.
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A container for the storage of articles, such as magnetic-tape cassettes, compact phonographic disks, or other recording media, comprising:
- a housing having an opening in one side thereof,
- a transport slide guide in said housing for translational sliding movement relative to said housing,
- an ejector spring operatively connected between said slide and said housing and adapted to convey said slide relative to said housing into an extraction position for the extraction of the article stored in said housing,
- a locking means for locking said slide in a stored position in said housing against the bias of said ejector spring,
- a front plate carried by said slide and adapted to close said opening when said slide is locked by said locking means,
- a pivotable connecting means between said slide and said front plate for pivotably connecting said slide and said front plate such that said front plate is pivotable between a first storage position and a second extraction position when said slide is in said extraction position,
- said housing including a counter stop means,
- a stop means disposed to engage said counter stop means when said slide is in said extraction position, and
- a spring means operatively connected to said front plate and to said slide for moving said front plate to said extraction position, and
- said spring means producing a bias sufficient to put said front plate in abutting relation with said stop means in said extraction position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.