Special receptacle or package – For holding a machine readable recording medium – For holding a grooved phonograph disc
Patent
1986-08-15
1987-11-10
Price, William
Special receptacle or package
For holding a machine readable recording medium
For holding a grooved phonograph disc
206444, 312 15, B65D 8557
Patent
active
047051663
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a container for a gramophone record or video disc, especially for a so-called compact disc.
A container for standard magnetic tape cassettes (compact cassettes) is known from published German Patent Specification No. 2 248 408. The container comprises a housing in which a holder for a magnetic tape cassette is slideably guided between an inner storage position and an outer removal position into which the holder is biassed by a spring assembly. In addition, there is provided a locking arrangement which holds the holder in its storage position in the housing against the spring bias and which may be released manually. The housing has a front wall which, in the storage position, covers the housing opening. In this known container, the holder is cut away at its sides so that the magnetic tape cassette may be gripped laterally at its edges and lifted out over the front wall of the holder.
This known construction is less suitable for compact discs or other disc-shaped recording media, such as gramophone records or video discs. The play-back equipment for such discs are, typically, designed having an insertion slot for the disc such that the user is required to hold the disc with its main surfaces gripped pincer-fashion between two fingers. It is therefore desirable to construct the container for such discs in such a manner that removal and insertion of the disc can be effected analogously, so that an additional manipulation of the disc is no longer necessary.
This ease of use is especially important when the container is installed in motor vehicles and is intended to be operated by the driver during travel. The operation of the container should require only the minimum of the driver's attention and dexterity in order to minimize any risk of an accident.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The objective of improving the ease of use of such known containers is accomplished according to the invention in that, when the disc is in the removal position, the front wall is pivoted transversely to the alignment of the disc to such an extent that the disc is removable in alignment. An ejectionmechanism acting on the disc in the removal position is provided which transports the disc further in the ejection direction to such an extent relative to the front wall that the disc may be gripped pincer-fashion by its main surfaces.
Because the container is additionally intended to have only the strictly necessary dimensions, this construction is especially suitable for accommodating a plurality of holders in a common housing, where the discs with their holders then lie stacked closely one on top of the other, but may nevertheless easily be removed and reinserted individually.
Further embodiments of the invention may be inferred from the following description and from the claims.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The present invention is explained in greater detail below with reference to examples of embodiments illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 shows in section a container for discs in the storage position.
FIG. 2 shows a section along the line II--II of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 shows a section along the line III--III of FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 shows a section along the line IV--IV of FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 shows in section the container of FIG. 1 in the removal position for a disc.
FIG. 6 shows in a perspective view the front end of a further embodiment of a container.
FIG. 7 shows, in a largely diagrammatic and partially broken away view, details of the container of FIG. 6.
FIG. 8 shows in section details of the container of FIG. 6.
FIG. 9 shows in a perspective view a portion of a further embodiment of a disc-holder for a container in accordance with the present invention.
FIGS. 10a, b and c show a form of embodiment of an ejection mechanism for a disc.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
The container illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 5 is block-shaped and comprises a housing 10 including a floor, a top wall, two side walls 12 and a rear wall 14, such that the housing 10 is open at
REFERENCES:
patent: 1569207 (1926-01-01), Sears
patent: 4630732 (1986-12-01), Snyman
patent: 4641747 (1987-02-01), Mestdagh et al.
Ind Inventions and Development of Novelties AG
Price William
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