Container for at least one carrier member bearing a reeled tape-like recording medium, especially a magnetic tape cassette, and an assembly of two or more such containers

Claim 1

A container for accommodating at least one carrier member bearing a reeled tape-like recording medium, especially a magnetic tape cassette, which container consists of a hollow body of essentially right parallelepipedic shape, said hollow body comprising: two large side walls which are parallel to one another, three narrow walls which interconnect said side walls, and an open side with an insertion/withdrawal opening for the carrier member with the reeled tape; a support surface which is substantially parallel to the bottom narrow wall and is considerably shorter than the length of the bottom wall of the carrier member, a ramp declining along an edge from said support surface to said insertion/withdrawal opening; a holding means on the hollow body, said holding means, while said carrier member is resting with its bottom wall on said support surface, normally engaging said carrier member at its top so as to keep said member from tilting forwardly along said edge; and means for releasing said holding means from said carrier member so as to permit said member to tilt forwardly, under the effect of gravity, about said edge into a withdrawal position on said inclined ramp, in which position the carrier member protrudes from the insertion/withdrawal opening.