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US 5,494,159 AGranted
Container for tape cassettes
AssigneeBASF Magnetics GmbH
InventorKlaus Schoettle
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AssigneeBASF Magnetics GmbH
InventorKlaus Schoettle
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A container for a tape cassette of approximately parallelepiped form having an elevated head part is formed with a bottom wall and a lid wall which can move with respect to each other by means of hinge devices. In this arrangement, if appropriate, one of said walls is provided with a pocket for receiving the elevated head part and has a decreasing wall thickness along its transverse axis from its outer longitudinal edge in the direction of the axis of the hinge devices or of the pocket. The other wall may likewise have a wall thickness decreasing in the same direction. The inner face of the wall provided with the pocket may also be arranged parallel, at least with respect to the inner face of the front wall of the pocket. The container can be used advantageously for any cassette of the type more precisely specified above for audio, video and/or data recording, since a minimal overall height of the container is achieved with minimal use of material.
A container, substantially of rectangular parallelepiped form, for tape cassettes having an elevated head part, said container having longitudinal axes and inner and outer longitudinal edges and transverse axes and edges, and comprising a bottom part which comprises one bottom wall and a rear wall along one of its longitudinal edges and bottom-part side walls along its transverse edges, and a lid part which comprises a lid wall and has a receiving pocket along its inner longitudinal edge with one pocket front wall and one pocket bottom wall for the tape cassette, wherein the lid wall has a wall thickness along the transverse axis of the container which tapers starting from its outer longitudinal edge over at least part of its length in the direction of the receiving pocket.
A container, substantially of rectangular parallelepiped form, for tape cassettes having an elevated head part, said container comprising inner and outer longitudinal edges and a transverse axis and a bottom part, which comprises one bottom wall and a rear wall along one of its longitudinal edges and bottom-part side walls along its transverse edges, and a lid part which comprises a lid wall and has a receiving pocket along its inner longitudinal edge with one pocket front wall and one pocket bottom wall for the tape cassette, said bottom wall and lid wall each having two longitudinal edges, said bottom part and said lid part being connected to each other by hinge devices having an axis, wherein at least one of said lid wall and said bottom wall has a tapering wall thickness along the transverse axis of the container from the outer longitudinal edge to the axis of the hinge devices.
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