Container for the storage of magnetic-tape cassettes of 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 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, and
- a transmission means operatively connected between said front plate and sid housing for transmitting, upon said movement of said slide relative to said housing, a torque to said front plate tending to pivot said front plate into said second extraction position.
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 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 transmission means operatively connected between said front plate and said housing for transmitting, upon said movement of said slide relative to said housing, a torque to said front plate tending to pivot said front plate into said second extraction position.
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.
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 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 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 transmission means operatively connected between said front plate and said housing for transmitting, upon said movement of said slide relative to said housing, a torque to said front plate tending to displacement said front plate into said extraction position.
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