Special receptacle or package – For holding a machine readable recording medium – For holding a tape cassette
Patent
1986-05-01
1987-05-12
Moy, Joseph Man-Fu
Special receptacle or package
For holding a machine readable recording medium
For holding a tape cassette
312319, B65D 85672
Patent
active
046642617
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a storage means for tape or disc recording media such as cassettes for audio or video equipment or compact discs of the CD/laser type, for example, each of which is so arranged as to be held in its own original protective box or a similar case which consists of lid and drawer elements capable of moving relative to each other, said boxes being so arranged as to be stored in a suitable holding space in a suitable storage rack or a similar storage box, said box either with or containing the recording medium in question being capable of being sliding into or from said space for the purpose of permitting the storage and the insertion or removal of a medium of the type in question in a closed "storage position" or in a open "access position".
Previously disclosed storage means, for example for tape cassettes, consist of racks which exhibit a number of holding openings for the individiual cassettes, which are enclosed in an openable original protective box. When it is wished to use the the cassette, however, it is first necessary to withdraw the cassette box fully from the opening in question in order to be able to open the box and then remove the cassette. Then, after having closed the box, it must be pushed back into the rack. The procedure is repeated when it is wished to replace a cassette in an empty box. Said means is not suitable for motor vehicles, for instance, because of the complicated nature of its operation, since the wish frequently exists to be able to operate cassettes with one hand when removing them from and replacing them in the appropriate rack.
A storage means known from the EP, A2, 0 004 523 makes holding of cassettes in their original protective boxes possible. But this known means where cassettes and boxes have to be swung out from the belonging rack around a rotation axis before the opening of said box, result in a complicated nature of the operation of the cassettes and which means safely not hold the protective boxes in question in vehicles and other varying places.
A large number of other means exists which require the cassette to be removed from its original box prior to being stored in a rack, which means that expensive original boxes are not used for the storage of cassettes in racks, and that the cassettes are not protected as effectively against external influences in said previously disclosed racks, for example against the effect of dust and other impurities. Furthermore, the index on the box cannot be used when cassettes are transferred to some other storage means, and the box must be kept in what is not always an easily accessible place for future use.
The principal object of the present invention is thus primarily to make available a means for solving the problems mentioned above by enabling cassettes, etc., to be held in their original box when stored in a rack, from which the box cannot be removed unintentionally when withdrawing or inserting a cassette, etc., but which is easily operated and is suitable for application in a number of different areas.
Said object is achieved by a means in accordance with the present invention, which is characterized essentially in that a holder, which comprises a plate or some other similar part of the holder, extending along said box element from a number of clamping elements, which are located at the inner of the holder and which can co-operate with said box element, is intended to be used to retain a protective box of the type in question in said desired positions in said rack, and in that the holder also includes means capable of interacting with the storage rack so arranged as to prevent the holder and the protective box in question from being moved past said desired "access position" and unauthorized movement from the "storage position" of the holder.
The invention is described below in relation to a number of preferred embodiments and with reference to the drawings, of which:
FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of the means in partially sectioned form with a box moved into its so-called "access position";
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