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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2002
Masahiko Nishide, Fukui, JP;
Orion Electric Co., Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is an improved video recorder housing having a main-and-auxiliary pivoting gate assembly to open and close its front cassette slot. The housing has a chamfered cassette guide extending inward from the lower edge of the cassette slot. The housing has a horizontal pin positioned inside and above the cassette slot. The main gate is attached to rotate about the horizontal pin and is spring-biased toward its closing position. The main gate has a sub-horizontal pin and an inverted “L”-shaped lever both operatively connected to control the degree of opening of the auxiliary gate. The auxiliary gate is spring-biased toward its closing position, and can be rotated about the sub-horizontal pin while the inverted “L”-shaped lever rolls on the ceiling of the housing. With this arrangement, the main gate is kept half open with its lower edge caught by the upper surface of a videocassette loaded inside the video recorder. The auxiliary gate then suspends vertically in the cassette slot leaving a lateral space between the lower edge of the auxiliary gate and the chamfered cassette guide permitting the label of the videocassette to be seen from the outside.