Appeal No. 97-0445
Application 08/170,020
Claims 10 and 11 are non elected.
The disclosed invention pertains to a device for
selectively playing a large number of musical selections or
accessing a large amount of data where the music or data
selected is stored on a plurality of compact discs.
Specifically, the invention concerns a mechanism for selecting
and storing compact discs in a manner suitable for use as a
juke box. The invention features a housing that contains a
plurality of spaced apart, substantially parallel disc holders
and two compact disc player assemblies. Each assembly has an
extended portion shaped to pass through the cutout portions of
the compact disc holders. Each assembly can selectively move
up and down and each compact disc holder can selectively
rotate, when horizontally aligned with an assembly, between a
cache position, where the cutout portion of the holder is
vertically aligned with the extended portion of the assembly
to allow vertical movement of the assembly past the holders,
and a selection position, where the extended portion of the
assembly overlies a compact disc storage position of the
holder so that the assembly can pick up a compact disc from
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