Appeal No. 95-2979
Application No. 08/093,571
The guide and blocking shoe also prevents a second disc from
being inserted into the CD player when there is already a CD disc
in the player by loading the discs along a loading plane (“L” in
the drawings) thus causing the two discs to come into edge-to-
edge contact in the event a second insertion of a disc is
attempted.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. Escutcheon-lens construction for a compact disc player
adapted to be operatively mounted in a vehicle, said escutcheon-
lens construction comprising a door frame, a door fastened along
the perimeter thereof to said door frame, said door having a slit
that is normally closed and is openable by a compact disc so as
to define an elongated and horizontally extending disc opening
therein for the passage of a compact disc between a loading
position external of the compact disc player and a play position
within the player, singular opening restrictor and disc guide
means located at and affixed behind said door to said escutcheon-
lens construction at a point intermediate the width and on only
one side of the disc opening and extending internally thereof in
a plane transverse to said horizontally extending disc opening to
permit the successful insertion of the disc through said door and
into the player in a predetermined loading and unloading first
path substantially aligned with said opening while blocking the
insertion of a disc past said door in predetermined second paths
inclined with respect to the loading and unloading path.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Bleiman 3,940,793 Feb. 24, 1976
Ikedo et al. 4,507,768 Mar. 26, 1985
(Ikedo)
Kobayashi et al. 5,084,855 Jan. 28, 1992
(Kobayashi)
1 Application for patent filed July 19, 1993.
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