US3292930A

US3292930A - Automatic record-changing apparatus

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Publication number: US3292930A
Application number: US319348A
Authority: US
Inventors: Foufounis Jean
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1962-10-26
Filing date: 1963-10-28
Publication date: 1966-12-20
Anticipated expiration: 1983-12-20
Also published as: CH386720A; GB1032733A

Description

Dec. 20, 1966 J. FOUFOUNIS 3,292,930

AUTOMATIC RECORD-CHANGING APPARATUS Filed Oct. 28, 1963 Jf/Zrney:

United States Patent ICE 3,292,930

Patented Dec. 20, 1966 pairs of which define the compartments housing the rec- 3,292,930 ords. The flanges 6 are provided with recesses 9 which AUTO TIQI RECORD-CHANGING APP allow removing the store through at raising movement with Jean Fol flgfi l l b -1 9 ;P fi g ggg a view to substituting for it an identical store provided 1 e c a 5 with a further series of records.

0 Claims pnonty apphcamm Switzerland 1/62 FIG. 2 illustrates a modification wherein the apparatus 12,590/ 62 1 Clahm (CL 4 2 and its removable store are housed lnslde a portable case 10. On the inside of cover 11 is a downward pro- Automatic record-changing apparatus for talking majection 12. The cover 11 of said case engages tangentially chines are known which include a store of records and at 12 the upper edges of the records so that said records means for selecting and reproducing the records. In most 5 and the removable store carrying them are locked in apparatus the store is rectilinear or circular and forms position between three axial lines and are held fast during an integral section of the support on which the apparatus transportation. Said arrangement may be replaced by is set. The records are housed in accordance with a the use of a removable bar holding the parts in position, predetermined classification in several compartments, so 15 so that, upon mere closing of the cover or mere introthat they may be taken hold of by the jaws of an autoduction of the bar, the apparatus becomes fit for actual matic arrangement. A number of said conventional aptransportation without any risk of shifting of the records paratus include a carrier plate incorporating at both ends or of a release of the actual store. flanges rigid with the plate and interconnected by cross- My invention is not limited to the embodiments debars which are interconnected in their turn by arcuate scribed hereinabove and it is applicable, generally speakmembers the number of which defines the storing capacity ing, to all types and shapes of record-carrying stores, of the records stored. Said apparatus show the drawwhether rectilinear, curvilinear or circular, the object of back of requiring a manual reintroduction of the records the iHVBHtiOH Consisting in Providing removable and interinto the store, this being performed in succession for the changeable stores. different records. In order to increase the number of IC a m s available records, the producers equip their apparatus with POrtable automatic record Changing apparatus stores containing as large a number of compartments as prising means for selecting and playing records and record possible. However, the outer size of the apparatus in- Storing equipmfint Contained thin a h using having a creases simultaneously and it is necessary to resort to a lid in its pp P and abutment means in its base, Said middle course between a reduction in bulk and an increase record ri g quipment having abutment means in its in capacity of the store. lower portion and in its upper portion, spaced compart- M i ti h f it bj t an t ti dments in each of which a record can be held so that it changing apparatus which removes said drawbacks, said P j Substantially above the level of the Store, Said apparatus being of the type including a record store and abutment means of Said Store bhing mmovably engaged an arrangement for selecting and reproducing the records, with that of said housing so as to locate said record storing According to my invention, the store is constituted by equipmfiht in Said housing, Said lid having a dOWIlWard a removable it adapted t b dil h d d projection on the inside thereof, closing of said lid causreplaced, while means are provided for positioning the ing Said Projection to be urged into downward Pressing store in the apparatus in a manner such that the apparatus engagement With records in Position ill Said record Storing may be immediately ready for operation. q p

The accompanying drawing illustrates, by way of ex- 7 ample, a preferred embodiment and a modification thereof References Clted by the Examine! In said drawing: UNITED STATES PATENTS emfggimle an elevational partly sectional view of said 4 3,085,805 4/1963 Bodenroder 274 10 FIG. 2 is a similar elevation view of a modification 3131936 5/1964 Hagen 274 10 thereof. FOREIGN PATENTS The apparatus illustrated 1n FIG. 1 includes a support- 285,292 2/1928 Great Britain ing plate 1 carrying rails 2 over which "a selecting and 324 482 1/1930 Great Britain reading carriage 3 runs through the agency of its rollers 5 1,073,712 9/1954 France.

4. The carriage 3 is provided with a conventional mech- 734 977 8/1 5 anisrn which is not illustrated, which serves for locking, 309227 32 g lgg gggg taking hold of and reading the successive records 5. 324462 11/1957 Switzerland The free section of the plate 1 carries the flanges 6 which align the removable store between two upstanding NORTON ANSHER Prim Examiner edges. Said flanges 6 are parallel with cross-members 7 y and 7 carrying parallel arcuate members 8, the successive W. E. JACKSON, J. F. PETERS, Assistant Examiners.