Cassette storage container with hub engaging fingers and adjacen

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1991-04-10

1995-01-24

Sewell, Paul T.

Special receptacle or package

For holding a machine readable recording medium

For holding a tape cassette

206493, B65D 85672

Patent

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053835573

ABSTRACT:
A container for storing a tape cassette of the type having a pair of spaced tape reel hubs. Each hub has a cylindrical sidewall which defines a recess in the hub. The storage container includes enclosure means for receiving and enclosing a cassette in the container. Diametrically opposed pairs of fingers are molded integrally with a bottom wall of the container and project into the hub recess through an aligned access opening formed in a bottom wall of the tape cassette upon placing the cassette into the container. The fingers are formed with a convex outer camming surface and are connected to the container by a straight leg portion. The convex outer edges of the fingers are engaged by the hub sidewalls and flex inwardly upon initial placement of the cassette into the storage container. A rigid stop member is mounted adjacent to and inwardly of each of the flexible fingers to limit the inward movement of the fingers toward the flexed position to control the flex thereof and to prevent breakage of the fingers. The stop members are connected by intervening reinforcing ribs to form a rigid stop assembly.

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