Tape cassette case

Claim 1

A case for storing a tape cassette comprising: an inner case for receiving a cassette; an outer case having top and bottom walls and a peripheral wall joining opposite portions of the peripheries of said top and bottom walls for defining an opening at one side of said outer case through which said inner case with a cassette received therein can be slidably inserted into and removed from said outer case in a direction parallel to the planes of said top and bottom walls; said inner case having a side member disposed in said opening of said outer case when said inner case with a cassette received therein is stored in said outer case, said inner case further having top and bottom panel members extending to different lengths from said side member to be disposed against respective top and bottom surfaces of a cassette when the latter is received in said inner case with said side member overlying a side of the cassette, said top wall and said top panel member having edge portions remote from said peripheral wall and side member, respectively, which are angled in respect to each other, and said bottom wall and said bottom panel member having edge portions remote from said peripheral wall and said side member, respectively, which are angled in respect to each other, an edge portion of at least one of said panel members forming an angle with respect to a base line which is greater than the angle formed between said base line and a corresponding edge portion of said outer case so that an edge portion of said inner case at least initially passes a corresponding edge portion of said outer case at only one point as said inner case with a cassette therein is slidably inserted through said opening of said outer case for storing of the cassette, whereby said inner case with a cassette received therein is more easily insertable into said outer case.