Information cassette
OwnerGerhard Westermanninventor
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Abstract
In an information cassette for receiving exchangeable information carriers including a carrier housing, the carrier housing has bent over top and bottom end walls and a T-shaped center web so as to form two information carrier sections covered by hinge lids on which the information carriers can be mounted and which have bottom walls with springs on which the hinge lids are seated in the carrier housing and which resiliently bias the hinge lids upwardly such that the top ends of the hinge lids are engaged behind the front edges of the bent-over carrier housing top end wall or the T-shaped center web, respectively.
Claims6
An information cassette for receiving exchangeable information carriers comprising:
- a carrier housing, an at least partially transparent hinge lid including a display panel and having a bottom supported in said carrier housing, said hinge lid having drawer sections formed therein for receiving said information carriers, said carrier housing having bent-over top and bottom end walls and a T-shaped center strip extending between, and parallel to, said bent-over top and bottom end walls, said hinge lid having a top and a bottom end with spring means disposed at the bottom end and fitting behind a web portion of said T-shaped center strip or, respectively, said bent-over bottom end wall for retaining said hinge lid on said carrier housing, said hinge lid being movable downwardly against the force of said spring means so as to release its top from said bent-over top end wall or, respectively, the web portion of the T-shaped center strip to permit outward tilting of the hinge lid and removal thereof from said carrier housing, said drawer sections only being capable of receiving said information carriers when said hinge lid is outwardly tilted away from said carrier housing.
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