GB1576251A - Container comprising a device for retaining and ejecting from the container an auto radio or the like - Google Patents

Container comprising a device for retaining and ejecting from the container an auto radio or the like Download PDF

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GB1576251A
GB1576251A GB293577A GB293577A GB1576251A GB 1576251 A GB1576251 A GB 1576251A GB 293577 A GB293577 A GB 293577A GB 293577 A GB293577 A GB 293577A GB 1576251 A GB1576251 A GB 1576251A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R11/00—Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for
    • B60R11/02—Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof
    • B60R11/0205—Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof for radio sets
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R11/00—Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for
    • B60R11/02—Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof
    • B60R11/0211—Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof for record carriers apparatus, e.g. video recorders, tape players or CD players
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R11/00—Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for
    • B60R2011/0042—Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for characterised by mounting means
    • B60R2011/0043—Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for characterised by mounting means for integrated articles, i.e. not substantially protruding from the surrounding parts
    • B60R2011/0045—Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for characterised by mounting means for integrated articles, i.e. not substantially protruding from the surrounding parts with visible part, e.g. flush mounted
    • B60R2011/0047—Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for characterised by mounting means for integrated articles, i.e. not substantially protruding from the surrounding parts with visible part, e.g. flush mounted using hidden fastening means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R11/00—Arrangements for holding or mounting articles, not otherwise provided for
    • B60R2011/0096—Theft prevention of articles

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(54) A CONTAINER COMPRISING A DEVICE FOR RETAINING AND EJECTING FROM THE CONTAINER AN AUTORADIO OR THE LIKE; (71) We, AUTovOx S.p.A., an Italian jointstock company of 981 Via Salaria, 00199 Roma, Italy. do hereby declare the invention, for which we pray that a patent may be granted to us, and the method by which it is to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement:- The present invention relates to a container comprising a device suitable to clamp and firmly hold an apparatus, such as an extractable autoradio, a radio tape recorder, a CB transceiver (or the like), in the container thereof, and to eject said apparatus when it is desired to remove it therefrom.
For a plurality of reasons of practical nature, it is necessary to render an apparatus easily extractable and removable from its container, and particularly both to utilize the apparatus elsewhere and to prevent a pilferage thereof during an unguarded parking of a car.
An object of this invention is to provide such a device as to permit to carry out very easily and rapidly such operations of clamping into or ejecting out from a holding container an apparatus of the extractable type.
According to the present invention there is provided a container comprising a device for retaining and ejecting an apparatus in and from the container said device comprising: a spring element, reciprocating as a whole with respect to the container, between a retracted position and an apparatus ejecting position; detent means arranged upon said spring element for engagement with complementary detent means arranged on the apparatus, when said spring element is in said retracted position; holding means for maintaining said spring element in said retracted position, and resilient means for urging the apparatus in the direction of ejection of the apparatus from the container.
An embodiment of a container comprising a device according to this invention will be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings.
In the drawings: Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of the container of the invention, with the device mounted thereon for, example, an autoradio, with parts of the container removed; Figure 2 is a plan view of the flat spring element of the device shown in Figure 1; Figure 3 is a side view of the spring element of figure 2; Figure 4 is a front elevation view of the container of figure 1.
With reference to the accompanying drawings, and particularly to figure 1 thereof, a container 1 for, for example, an autoradio is in the form of a box comprising a base 2. The container 1 has at its front an aperture which allows the insertion of an autoradio, a tape recorder, a CB transceiver, or any other apparatus which is desired to be removably installed. Around this aperture of the container 1 there is arranged a small mask 3 (see also figure 4).
The device as shown in Figures 2 and 3, comprises a flat spring element 4, consisting of, for example, a steel leaf. The element 4 is formed with a folding line 5 which divides the element 4 into a front part 6 and a rear part 7.
At the folding line 5, in the element 4 there is formed a centrally arranged slot 8, and a hook member 9 projects downward from the rear edge of the slot 8. The front part 6 of the element 4 shows a portion 10 of a reduced width, and terminates with a pair of resilient teeth 11. A key 12 can be slid into the forward end of the element 4 until being retained by the teeth 11.
The rear part 7 of the element 4 is provided with a stamping 13, in the form of a spherical half-cup, terminating in edge 14.
A small bridge 15, integral with the base 2 of the container 1, guides the element 4 during its reciprocation with respect to the container 1, holding the rear part 7 of the element 4 into contact with the base 2.
The front part 6 of the element 4 is biased away from the base 2 due to the element 4 being bent along the folding line 5. Front part 6 is slidable into a window 16 of the small mask 3, as better shown in figure 4.
The window 16 is formed by a widened.
upper portion 17, having the same width of the element 4, and a narrow lower portion 18, having the same width as the portion 10, of reduced width, of the element 4. The base 2 of the container 1 has an opening 19 through which the stamping 13 extends within the carrier 1.
Two small hook members 20 and 21 are formed on the base 2 of the container 1, and a return spring 22, formed from a steel wire, shaped into a bow form, is attached intermediate the hook members 9, 20 and 21. A volute spring 23 is secured to the rear part, preferably to the centre of the container 1.
Into the autoradio body, intended to be introduced within the container 1, there is formed a recess (not shown) complementary with the stamping 13 of the spring element 4.
The operation of the device of the container according to this invention takes place as fol lows: in the rest position, with the autoradio completely extracted, the spring 22 urges inwards the element 4 into its retracted position, with the portion 10, of a reduced width, accomodated within the narrow lower portion 18 of the window 16, due to the elasticity of the spring element 4 and to the folding at the line 5.
Now, by inserting the autoradio through the aperture of the container 1, the base of the autoradio, by sliding inwards, depresses the stamping 13 and hence the element 4.
As the autoradio advances it engages the volute spring 23, thereby loading it; when the autoradio reaches its completely inserted position, the stamping 13 passes into the complementary recess of the autoradio body, effecting a clamping thereof. In fact the autoradio cannot be ejected by the spring 23 inasmuch as the element 4, which cannot move outwards, because the wide portion of the element 4 cannot pass through the narrow lower portion of the window 16, holds the autoradio is position by means of its stamping 13. In order to withdraw the autoradio, one acts on the key 12 urging it upwardly against the elasticity of the spring element 4. In this manner the element 4 can slide outwards, with its front part 6 that slides in the upper widened portion 17 of the window 16, under the action of the autoradio pushed by the volute spring 23. While the element 4 is moving outwards, the stamping 13 comes into contact with the forward edge of the opening 19 and slides therealong depressing the element 4 until the stamping 13 itself is withdrawn from the complementary recess of the autoradio body, effecting a release thereof.
Simultaneously the spring 22 is charged.
When released, the autoradio can be completely extracted by hand. When the radio is completely extracted, the spring 22 returns the element 4 to its rest, inwards retracted position.
In such position, the portion 10, having a reduced width, of the element 4, will snap within the lower narrow portion 18 of the window 16.
WHAT WE CLAIM IS: 1. A container comprising a device for retaining and ejecting an apparatus in and from the container said device comprising: a spring element, reciprocating as a whole with respect to the container, between a retracted position and an apparatus ejecting position; detent means arranged upon said spring element for engagement with complementary detent means arranged on the apparatus, when said spring element is in said retracted position; holding means for maintaning said spring element in said retracted position, and resilient means for urging the apparatus in the direction of ejection of the apparatus from the container.
2. A container according to Claim 1, wherein said spring element comprises a flat element having a folding line which divides it into a rear part and a front part provided with an end portion of a reduced width.
3. A container according to Claim 2, wherein said detent means on the spring element comprise a spherical half-cup formed by stamping out a portion of said rear part of the spring element.
4. A container according to Claim 3, further comprising a bridge arranged on the base of said container, said bridge constraining the rear part of said spring element to reciprocate in contact with respect to the container base, with the detent means projecting into the interior of the container through an opening formed in the container base.
5. A container according to any of Claims 2 to 4, wherein said holding means for the spring element comprises a window provided in the front part of the container, which window has a widened upper portion, through which the spring element passes, and a narrow lower portion that accomodates the end portion, having a reduced width, of the spring element, thereby holding said spring element in the retracted position.
6. A container according to any of Claims 1 to 5, further comprising a spring means that urges said spring element towards its retracted position.
7. A container comprising a device for retaining and ejecting an apparatus in and from the container substantially as herein described with reference to Figure 1 with or without reference to any of Figures 2 to 4 of the accompanying drawings.
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    being bent along the folding line 5. Front part
    6 is slidable into a window 16 of the small mask 3, as better shown in figure 4.
    The window 16 is formed by a widened.
    upper portion 17, having the same width of the element 4, and a narrow lower portion 18, having the same width as the portion 10, of reduced width, of the element 4. The base 2 of the container 1 has an opening 19 through which the stamping 13 extends within the carrier 1.
    Two small hook members 20 and 21 are formed on the base 2 of the container 1, and a return spring 22, formed from a steel wire, shaped into a bow form, is attached intermediate the hook members 9, 20 and 21. A volute spring 23 is secured to the rear part, preferably to the centre of the container 1.
    Into the autoradio body, intended to be introduced within the container 1, there is formed a recess (not shown) complementary with the stamping 13 of the spring element 4.
    The operation of the device of the container according to this invention takes place as fol lows: in the rest position, with the autoradio completely extracted, the spring 22 urges inwards the element 4 into its retracted position, with the portion 10, of a reduced width, accomodated within the narrow lower portion 18 of the window 16, due to the elasticity of the spring element 4 and to the folding at the line 5.
    Now, by inserting the autoradio through the aperture of the container 1, the base of the autoradio, by sliding inwards, depresses the stamping 13 and hence the element 4.
    As the autoradio advances it engages the volute spring 23, thereby loading it; when the autoradio reaches its completely inserted position, the stamping 13 passes into the complementary recess of the autoradio body, effecting a clamping thereof. In fact the autoradio cannot be ejected by the spring 23 inasmuch as the element 4, which cannot move outwards, because the wide portion of the element 4 cannot pass through the narrow lower portion of the window 16, holds the autoradio is position by means of its stamping 13. In order to withdraw the autoradio, one acts on the key 12 urging it upwardly against the elasticity of the spring element 4. In this manner the element 4 can slide outwards, with its front part 6 that slides in the upper widened portion 17 of the window 16, under the action of the autoradio pushed by the volute spring 23. While the element 4 is moving outwards, the stamping 13 comes into contact with the forward edge of the opening 19 and slides therealong depressing the element 4 until the stamping 13 itself is withdrawn from the complementary recess of the autoradio body, effecting a release thereof.
    Simultaneously the spring 22 is charged.
    When released, the autoradio can be completely extracted by hand. When the radio is completely extracted, the spring 22 returns the element 4 to its rest, inwards retracted position.
    In such position, the portion 10, having a reduced width, of the element 4, will snap within the lower narrow portion 18 of the window 16.
    WHAT WE CLAIM IS: 1. A container comprising a device for retaining and ejecting an apparatus in and from the container said device comprising: a spring element, reciprocating as a whole with respect to the container, between a retracted position and an apparatus ejecting position; detent means arranged upon said spring element for engagement with complementary detent means arranged on the apparatus, when said spring element is in said retracted position; holding means for maintaning said spring element in said retracted position, and resilient means for urging the apparatus in the direction of ejection of the apparatus from the container.
  2. 2. A container according to Claim 1, wherein said spring element comprises a flat element having a folding line which divides it into a rear part and a front part provided with an end portion of a reduced width.
  3. 3. A container according to Claim 2, wherein said detent means on the spring element comprise a spherical half-cup formed by stamping out a portion of said rear part of the spring element.
  4. 4. A container according to Claim 3, further comprising a bridge arranged on the base of said container, said bridge constraining the rear part of said spring element to reciprocate in contact with respect to the container base, with the detent means projecting into the interior of the container through an opening formed in the container base.
  5. 5. A container according to any of Claims 2 to 4, wherein said holding means for the spring element comprises a window provided in the front part of the container, which window has a widened upper portion, through which the spring element passes, and a narrow lower portion that accomodates the end portion, having a reduced width, of the spring element, thereby holding said spring element in the retracted position.
  6. 6. A container according to any of Claims 1 to 5, further comprising a spring means that urges said spring element towards its retracted position.
  7. 7. A container comprising a device for retaining and ejecting an apparatus in and from the container substantially as herein described with reference to Figure 1 with or without reference to any of Figures 2 to 4 of the accompanying drawings.
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GB2193995A (en) * 1986-06-17 1988-02-24 Clarion Co Ltd Mounting assembly

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GB2193995A (en) * 1986-06-17 1988-02-24 Clarion Co Ltd Mounting assembly
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GB2193995B (en) * 1986-06-17 1989-12-13 Clarion Co Ltd Automotive electronic device mounting assembly

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