DE7720469U1 - CONTAINER FOR STORING MUSIC CASSETTES - Google Patents

Description

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Pirna Friedrich Theysohn

THY 24-B

June 27, 1977

Container gum for storing music cassettes

The invention relates to a container for storing a large number of music cassettes from a housing exist with fixed dimensions, in which a wound on two reels, serving as a sound carrier is arranged is, consisting of a substantially rectangular · box, the cross-section of which corresponds to the external dimensions of the Corresponds to cassettes and is open on a narrow side representing the front side.

Music cassettes are becoming more and more popular today and are therefore being manufactured and sold in ever larger numbers. Compared to usual Tapes have the advantage that the often laborious threading of the tape into a new reel is no longer necessary. The The tape is housed in a closed housing and can be rotated by the two in this housing Coils are not removed. Such music cassettes are released by many manufacturers, but have nonetheless fixed ones external dimensions, since these music cassettes must be adapted to playback devices that specify these dimensions. Only the dimensions can vary in width or thickness.

Such music cassettes are sensitive to dirt and Rougher treatment and it is therefore necessary «if they are not in a playback device, in special containers to accommodate in which they are protected. For this purpose it has become known to put the music cassettes in special / Insert containers cut to individual cassettes. It has also already become known «such individual containers through

To make special external design assemblable so that several individual containers can be arranged one above the other, the cassettes still being individually removable. Despite ft-in fitting together of these containers, each cassette even its own container so that the expenditure for the accommodation of the music cassettes is very .High. Another disadvantage of these individual containers, regardless of whether they remain individual or are combined with other containers, is that the cassettes are relatively difficult to remove.

Because DT-GM 76 21 30? a container has become known as described at the beginning. In this known container, the cassettes are made, as in others on the market. Holdable containers held individually by springs in the container and after unlocking moved a short distance out of the same. This known container is very expensive, in particular because of the many springs required, and also in terms of functionality dependent on these permanently stressed springs.

The invention has for its object to provide a container for music cassettes, which uses only a few Individual parts have a simple structure and still ensure easy insertion and removal of the cassettes.

This object is achieved with a container of the type described at the beginning according to the invention in that in the box at least j At least one insert which receives the cassettes and can be moved back and forth in the direction from the bottom of the I box to its front side is.- -

The advantage of such a container is to be seen in the fact that through

the insert receiving the or all cassettes special holding i

i and spring elements for the individual cassettes no longer required ' will. Since the insert is movably arranged in the box, the cassettes can be easily inserted and removed at the same time guaranteed. Insertion and removal are then particularly discussed

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easier if the movement of the insert is tied to the position of the lid according to a further concept of the invention.

An exemplary embodiment of the subject matter of the invention is shown in FIG Drawings shown.

Fig. 1 shows a view of the front side of a container according to the invention without a lid and in FIG a section through Fig. 1 along the line II - II reproduced with the lid attached. Finally, FIG. 3 shows one Detail of the container.

With 1 is a substantially rectangular box from any Material, preferably made of plastic, which is used as a container for a large number of music cassettes 2 can be. The rectangular box 1 is open on one of its narrow sides, which represents the front side, and there with it a rotatably mounted cover 3, which can be seen from FIG. 2, can be closed. In the box 1, an insert 4 is attached, the can also be made of plastic and should have a different color from the color of the box 1 for aesthetic reasons. The insert 4 is divided over the entire width of the box by webs 5, so that spaces are created in which the cassettes 2 can be picked up and thereby also be held in their position without them wobbling back and forth.

The insert 4 can be moved back and forth with and without cassettes in the direction of the double arrow 6, that is to say in the direction of the front side of the box 2 or of the bottom thereof. As long as there is at least one cassette in the insert 4, the insert can hold its position shown in FIG. 1, even if the box as a whole is, for example, turned upside down. In the event that Aer box is transported empty, rails 7 and 8 are attached to the side walls of the same, which enclose a gap to the lower wall of the container 1, in which the projections 9 and IO of the insert 4 lie so that the

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Rails 7 and 8 prevent the insert from moving upwards and always keep the same in its position according to FIG. These rails are thus used as guides 4 to look at «

In the position shown in Fig. 2, the box 1 is closed by the cover 3 and the cassettes 2 are full inside the container. To remove a cassette, the cover 3 must be opened, which is then rotated around the point II, namely in the direction of arrow 12. During this folding movement, a corresponding coupling mechanism for insert 4 at the same time caused that with the movement of the lid 3 and the insert 4 is moved out of the box 1, so that the Cassettes are easy to grasp and can be removed from the insert 4. When the lid 3 is closed, the insert moved back into the box 1 with the remaining cassettes.

The coupling mechanism between cover 3 and insert 4 goes into one possible embodiment from FIG. On the mission 4 elongated holes 14 are provided on both sides, into which pins 13 engage, which are located on lugs 15 of the cover 3. In the position shown in Fig. 3, the insert 4 is fully within the box, not shown here. . When the cover 3 then dashed in the direction of arrow l6 in the gC Drawn position is pivoted, then the insert 4 is due to this pivoting movement and the interaction of Pins 13 and slots l4 moved in the direction of arrow 17 in the position also shown in dashed lines. This position corresponds to the position in which the cassettes can be easily removed from the box or insert. Instead of pins and elongated holes an articulated intermediate member can also be attached between insert 4 and cover 3, via which the insert also is moved through the lid.

The insert 4 is formed in one piece in the illustrated embodiment. This embodiment is undoubtedly the simplest;

however, it is just as possible to split this operation into two parts to subdivide, which are then listed separately in Box 1. The 3ewbewegungamechaniamua for the Eineatz 4 does not necessarily have to be in the form shown can be made dependent on the movement of the cover. It can just as easily be at the bottom of the Box 1 or at the end of the insert 4 resilient elements are provided that when the insert is pressed into the box are squeezed and after opening the box the insert move the required piece out of the box. When the movement of the insert 4 depends on the movement of the lid 3 is to be made, then this joint movement can in principle also be carried out via any other suitable coupling mechanism through-C. be guided.

On the upper and lower walls of the box 1 there are borders l8 and 19t which are coordinated so that several such boxes 1 can be stacked one on top of the other without any problems, while at the same time shifting to any side is excluded because the border 19 at the lower limit fits exactly into the border l8 at the upper limit of the box

In the event that the box 1 is to be used in a position in which the front is up, the insert k or. r a detent becoming to the lid 3 is attached, is prevented by means of which, sliding the insert back into the box. The cover is thereby set in the open position.

Claims (8)

• · · ι ι if ι · ■ Friedrich Theysöhn company THY 24-B June 27, 1977 Expectations 1 * container for storing a larger number of music cassettes consisting of a housing with fixed dimensions, in which a windable on two coils serving band is arranged as Texträger consisting of yj a substantially rectangular box, which in its { Cross-section corresponds to the external dimensions of the cassette j and open on a narrow side representing the front side is, characterized in that in the box (l) at least j a cassette (2) receiving, in the direction of the bottom of the Kaster · s insert that can be moved to and fro on its front (4) arranged iut. 2. Container according to claim 1, characterized in that the insert (4) is provided with webs (5) whose distance from one another corresponds to the width of a cassette (2). * -. 3. Container according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the box (l) can be closed on its front side by means of a rotatably mounted lid (3), and that the insert (4) is movably connected to the lid. 4. A container according to claim 3, characterized in that elongated holes (l4) are attached to the insert (4) into which the pins (13) arranged on the cover (3) engage. 5. Container according to claim 3, characterized in that the insert (4) is connected to the lid (3) via an articulated intermediate member. 7720469 01/19/78 ■ m 0 ; · At
• »t · * ■ 6. Container according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the same moving resilient elements are mounted in the box (l) or on the insert (4). 7. Container according to one of Claims 1 to 6, characterized in that rails (7, 8) for guiding the insert (4) are attached in the box (1). 8. Container according to one of claims 1 to 7 » thereby ge . _t denotes that a detent is provided for fixing the insert in the open position of the lid on the insert (4) or the cover (3). 7720469 19.017A