US 5,283,603 AGranted

Slide magazine

Assigneereflecta GmbH foto film projektion

InventorsHermann Kronbauer, Christian Rehm

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Abstract

A slide magazine for slide frames having a peripheral edge with a peripherally extending groove on the two faces thereof and a notch at at least one edge portion of the peripheral edge, comprises a base portion with longitudinally spaced pairs of transverse rib portions. The rib portions of each pair are disposed in alignment transversely to the base portion and each pair is spaced from an adjacent pair to provide a slide frame-receiving compartment. The rib portions carry retaining ribs to hold the respective slide frame in a spill-resistant manner in the slide magazine, and each rib portion further has a projection for engaging into the groove to hold the respective slide frame in its compartment. A resilient finger in the base of each compartment has a retaining nose to engage into the notch of the slide frame to hold it in position. Slide frames can thus be inserted into and removed from the slide magazine at both sides thereof.

Claims7

Dependent claims

In a slide magazine for slide frames having a peripheral edge having peripherally extending grooves and a notch at the peripheral edge, the slide magazine comprising:

a base portion;
transverse ribs disposed on the base portion and spaced from each other to form compartments for accommodating respective slide frames, each transverse rib having at least one projection which projects laterally therefrom and is adapted to engage into a groove of the respective slide frame;
spaced-apart resilient fingers arranged on the base portion, each finger being associated with a respective compartment and having an upwardly projecting retaining nose for engagement into a notch of the respective slide frame;
and retaining ribs disposed on the base portion and projecting upwardly therefrom in alignment with the transverse ribs for holding the respective slide frames in a spill-resistant manner in the slide magazine;
the improvement that the slide magazine is provided with transverse ribs arranged on said base portion in a transverse direction and separate from each other, and between which are disposed corresponding retaining noses of respective compartments;
the retaining noses being aligned with each other in a longitudinal direction of the slide magazine and defining an axis of symmetry along which the transverse ribs are arranged, each transverse rib being disposed in a transverse direction to said axis of symmetry, said upwardly projecting retaining ribs being arranged on said transverse ribs to either side of said axis and providing common outside edges with said transverse ribs, said outside edges having a knife-edge configuration.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.