DE1772520C3 - Storage device for tape cassettes - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a tape cassette storage device comprising one of one bottom-free frame existing magazine with juxtaposed chambers in which the Cassettes can be used on the narrow side, with sis coming to rest on a disengageable locking member.

Prerecorded audio tapes used in cassettes are increasingly being used in greater numbers today used. Here the problem arises of

5. Storage device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that that a thumb (16) is provided at the end of the pivotable lever (13). the one when touching down of the magazine (1) on the -, slide. (23) des Multi-cassette player comes into contact with the upper edge of this slide and the lever (13) pivoted about the bolt (12) into a position in which the to lock the cassette serving rod (4) is unlocked.

6. Storage device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the carriage (23) as a frame on the other hand, there is increasing interest in devices for successive or optional automatic playback of a series of prerecorded audio tape cassettes.
For these reasons, it would be useful for the user of tape cassettes to have a device available that both allows a practical arrangement of the cassettes and facilitates the insertion of these cassettes in devices for playing a Sees rie of cassettes.

Another device of the type mentioned at the beginning is described in German Auslegeschrift 1 192 841 known. In this device, the

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Cassettes received in individually lockable compartments of a magazine which are arranged one above the other in floors and which is permanently installed in a playback device. The cassettes or tapes can optionally be brought into engagement by means of plunger coil magnets arranged on each floor with the pick-up and tape drive arranged on each floor. This not only requires a great deal of effort in terms of pickups and actuation devices and thus leads to increased costs for the playback device, but also has the disadvantage that the cassettes are exposed to environmental influences without protection after they have been removed from your magazine. Further, each floor must fii ¹ "insertion and removal of a cassette umsiä.-.- JÜjh be individually opened and closed.

Therefore, the invention is A -% dbe based on a storage device of "- to create ^ type mentioned at the outset which does not ^ u; lie equipping a so-called Mehrkas" ·· <* r ~ pielers mi; a series of cassettes sonriein also designed a convenient and practical arrangement of the cartridges and provides optimal protection for them outside of the multi-cassette player.

This object is achieved according to the invention in that the locking member when the magazine is placed on a slide or other guide member for receiving the magazine in a multi-cassette player is movable by the mechanism of this multi-cassette player in a position in soft the cartridges are enabled to move downwards into the multi-cartridge player.

Thus, a storage device is created by the device according to the invention, which in series Insertion and removal of cartridges in or from a multi-cassette player allows. At the same time, easy and convenient loading and unloading of the storage device and safe Holding the cartridges in the storage device is accomplished with the cartridges in the storage device are protected from all sides except for one side.

Further features and details of the invention emerge üus the Ljn? Erans ⁿ rüchcn ü? D dsr following description of an embodiment with reference to the drawings. It shows

F i g. 1 is a plan view of the magazine,

Fig. 2 is a side view of the magazine, one half being shown in section,

F i g. 3 the section RI-HI of Fig.!,

4 shows a plan view of the slide of a multi-cash player,

FIG. 5 shows the vertical section V-V according to FIG. 4, with a magazine on the slide is put on,

F i g. 6 shows a representation similar to FIG. 5, with a magazine on the slide, and

F i g. 7, 8 and 9 details for illustrative purposes the way it works.

The device consists of a frame 1, which forms a floor-free magazine with transverse walls 2, through which the cassettes 3 are held in a certain position. Under this framework extends along one of its side edges a horizontal rod 4, the ends of which are at an angle are bent from 90 ° upwards to form legs 5. These legs are outside the frame or Magazir 'I; their ends 6 are again bent by 90 ° and reach into openings parallel to rod 4? in the side faces of the frame one.

The rod 4 represents a supporting organ that the Kasnetten 3 holds in the magazine.

A connection 8 works with each leg 5 of the rod 4 together, which in the illustrated embodiment of two on the side surfaces of the Frame protruding tab 9 is formed.

ίο These two lobes are connected to one another by a web 10 connected to which a spring 11 is attached, the other end of which is suspended from the leg 5 is.

Below the tabs 9 a bolt 12 is provided on which a flat lift! 13 with a downwardly extending projection 14 is pivotally mounted. At this projection 14 a nose 15 for locking the rod 4 is provided.

ao At one end of the lever 13 is also a thumb 16 provided, the task of which will be explained later.

The upper edge 17 of this thumb 16 opposite At the end of the lever 13, the lower tab 9 can come to a stop.

The bolt 12 is wound with a spring 18, the end 21 of which is attached to the tabs 9 and d. Ren leg 19 is provided at its end with a hook 20 which is attached to the upper edge of the lever 13 acts.

The top of the magazine can be covered with a removable, generally clear, cover 2.2, which allows reading of the inscriptions provided on the upper narrow side of the cassette allowed.

In such a magazine, a series of juxtaposed cassettes of the Rod 4, which is held by the NVe 15 of the Lever 13 is locked so that the filled magazine is handled without the risk of cassettes falling out can be.

Understandably, however, it is also of interest to the user to have a device available to have, which not only allows a convenient arrangement of the cassettes, but also the insertion of the Cassettes in devices for the automatic playback of a series of cassettes, so-called multi-cassette players, facilitated.

In the following the device according to the invention is

5 *> application to a proposed device described.

In Fig. 4 and 5, a frame-shaped carriage 23 is shown, which rests on rail-shaped projections 24-24 ¹ in grooves 25-25 ¹ which are provided in parallel guides 26 and via a horizontal rack 27 provided on inm, which is connected to a pinion 28 in Is engagement, which sits on a vertical shaft 29 driven by the control mechanism of the playback device, is movable.

The plate 30 of the chassis is provided with two parallel rails 31 which between the parallel guides 26 are arranged and interrupted at the point at which in the plate 30 a Schli'z 32 is provided through which a cassette c can pass after unlocking.

If a ¹ ; Magazine (Fig. 1, 2 and 3) is placed in the corresponding position in the carriage 23, the thumb 16 comes

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in contact with the upper edge of the slide: manual unlocking from its position the lever 13 has been moved around the bolt 12 in the opposite direction, under the action of the spring U at the action of the spring 19 pivoted and gc- [this projection at one point to the stop reaches from the position shown in F ί g, 2 in the [comes to dci the passage for the in the Position of Fig. 6, in which the cheese 15 the rod 4 i | 5 ^ chambers; The cassettes located in the magazine are fully released. ! 'constantly releases so that the user can use the Maguzin

At the same time, the rod 4: can fill into the fork j without removing the lid.
^i! 33 of a lever 34 introduced, which is a component? | The memory according to the invention is poor; represents ^ es ^ Mec ^ isnju ^ Yaes ^ i ^ aer ^ eQaYates ' is. ^): With |. | {Fdriici a 'sc'Jbstai ^^

IpException of the ubciridciriyntcrbrcchurigiinidcn lock direction for the protection of a series of cassettes' ¹ ! Sun and above the 'Schlitz32 located cassette, such as to block the juxtaposed which is slightly pivoted and still has from the cassette and the blockwcisc inserting dic-rod 4 is held (Fig, 6) are here in this series of cassettes in so-called Mchrkassct-Kassettcn on the rails 31 (Fi g.9). tenspiclcr allowed

The rod 4 can pass through the fork 34 of the loading 15. Such a storage device has insbcsonmcchanismus in the position shown in Fig. 8 dcrc the shape of a parallelepiped, of which five sides be brought, so that the cassette is used for a Schulz of the cassettes, while only the take the playback position move down the sixth page is open and the manual closure can. of the magazine and the exit of the cassettes

The width of the projection 14 of the flat lever so action of the Mcchanismt.s von Wicdcrgabcgcrä-13 is chosen so that the rod 4, if allowed after ten with automatic cassette guide.

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Claims (1)

Patent claims: 1. Storage device for audio tape cassettes with a magazine consisting of a frame free from the bottom and arranged side by side Chambers into which the cassettes are narrow are used, whereby they come to rest on a disengageable locking member, thereby characterized in that the locking member (4) when i = placement of the magazine (1) on a slide (23) or some other guide organ for receiving the magazine in a multi-cassette player movable into a position by the mechanism (33, 34) of this multi-cassette player is in which the cartridges are released for downward movement into the multi-cartridge player are. 2. Storage device according to claim 1, characterized by means (8, 9, 10, 11, ao 12, 13, 14, IS, 16), through which the disengageable locking member (4) m cassette locked position normally can be locked, the storage device being an independent device, and can be unlocked when the magazine (1) is inserted into the guide member (23). 3. Storage device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that that the cassette (3) in the magazine (1) holding locking member (4) from a rod (4) or a wire mif by 90 ° to legs (5) upwardly bent ends, which in turn are angled by 90 ° and parallel to the rod (4) in on the side surfaces of the magazine (1) intended openings ^ 7} Jnfyeifen, and that a locking device is provided, which a series of adjacent, can hold stored cassettes by means of the rod (4) through the nose (15) of a can be locked around a lever (13) pivotable about a bolt (12) attached to the magazine. 4. Storage device according to one of the preceding Claims, characterized in that the pivotable lever (13) with a 1 - (i downwardly extending projection (14) is provided, the width of which is chosen so that it normally the rod (4) locked in the cassette locked position and that after manual unlocking and disengaging the rod (4) on it under the action of a spring (11) on one The point at which it comes to a stop is the passage for the cassettes (3) in the magazine (1) completely releases and allows the user to conveniently equip it without removing the cover stands, which rests on parallel guides (26) and can be moved in these, and that the plate (30) of the chassis of the multi-cassette player between these guides (26) is provided with two parallel rails (31) on which the cassettes (3) when Placing the magazine (1) on this slide (23) come to rest, with equipment. e of those Cassette, which is at the point of egg. -. in the Rails (31) provided interruption over a Qi.schlitz provided in the plate (30) (32), which allows the downward movement of a cassette. 7. Storage device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that that the top of the magazine (1) can be closed with a generally transparent cover (22) is that the reading of the possibly provided on the upper narrow side of the cassette (3) Labels permitted. 8. Storage device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it represents an independent device which is provided with devices (1) for protecting a series of cassettes and for locking (4) of the cassettes arranged next to one another and thus without the risk of falling out Cartridges can be handled ¹ , and at the same time the block-wise insertion of this series of cartridges (3) on or into a multi-cassette player. 9. Storage device according to one of the preceding. Claims, characterized in that that it has the shape of a cuboid, five sides of which serve as the shoulder of the cassette (3), while only the sixth page is open and both the manual loading of the magazine (1) as well as the exit of the cassettes by the action of the mechanism (33, 34) of playback devices with automatic cash register introduction permitted.