Appeal No. 96-0528
Application No. 08/151,463
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1 and 3 through 6, all of the claims pending in the
application.
The invention pertains to a compact disc changer wherein
a plurality of discs can be exchanged and played. More
particularly, a main chassis, an elevator chassis, a disk
pull-out mechanism and a locking mechanism, inter alia, are
provided wherein the locking mechanism locks the main chassis
to the elevator chassis in a ganged relationship with the disc
pull-out operation of the disc pull-out mechanism so that
there can be no relative movement between the main chassis and
the elevator chassis while the pulled-out disc is played.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A disc player having a disc compartment in which a
plurality of discs are stacked, said disc player comprising:
a main chassis;
an elevator chassis connected to said main chassis and
having opposing side walls;
a disc pull-out mechanism connected to said elevator
chassis for performing a disc pull-out operation and pulling
out one disc from said disc compartment and for performing a
disc insertion operation for inserting the one disc into said
disc compartment after the one disc has been reproduced;
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