Fortel, Inc.

T.a.d. Avanti, Inc.

Arthur T Martinez

Richard B Kilstofte

Telephone answering set

Combination telephone and answering set

Telephone answering unit

Telephone answering machine

Cordless handset and stand telephone unit

An ejector mechanism for unloading the cassette from a cassette-type magnetic tape recorder is provided. The mechanism includes a slide actuator which is mounted in an opening in the housing of the unit for reciprocal rectilinear movement in the plane of the housing, with both the housing and the actuator preferably being composed of a suitable plastic material. The slide actuator includes an integral portion which depends through the opening from the under side of the actuator in position to engage and move a spring-loaded slider on the chassis of the unit from a first to a second position against the bias of its spring. As the slider is moved from its first to its second position, a spring-biased ejector lever under the cassette is released and moves angularly upwardly from a lower position to an upper position to eject the cassette. As the ejector lever moves angularly to its upper position, it latches the slider in its second position. When the cassette is again inserted into the unit, it presses the ejector lever back down to its lower position, which unlatches the slider and causes it to move back to its first position, at which position the slider holds the ejector lever down in its lower position, until the slide actuator is again operated.

Cassette ejector mechanism

A mechanical slide selector switch assembly for operating a series of pushbutton switches which includes an elongated support having a series of spaced parallel transverse members between which the switches are mounted, an elongated actuator slidably mounted on the support for reciprocal movement along the support, and a spring-loaded plunger mounted on the actuator to be moved across the transverse members from one switch to another to operate the switches as the actuator is moved to positions between successive pairs of the transverse members. When operating a switch the actuator is supported only by the switch and there is no contact between the actuator and the transverse members. However, when the actuator is moved off a switch it is supported by the transverse members until it engages the next switch.

Slide selector switch

A mechanical slide selector switch assembly, or the like, is provided which includes a plurality of multi-contact switches mounted in side-by-side relationship, and which also includes a slidable actuator mounted in transverse relationship with the switches for successively actuating the switches as the actuator is moved back and forth along a rectilinear path.

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Long Beach, CA, United States of America

Arthur T Martinez