Cradle-Cassette Apparatus for an Electronic Device

摘要

A cradle-cassette apparatus encases and selectively displays an electronic device such as a mobile communications device. The cradle-cassette apparatus includes a cradle and a cassette. The cradle is sized and shaped to removably receive such an electronic device. The cradle includes anterior, posterior, superior, inferior, and lateral cradle sections. The cassette is sized and shaped to translatably receive the cradle construction. The cassette includes anterior, posterior, superior, inferior, and lateral cassette sections. A hinge-axis is provided by way of cooperative structure associated with the lateral cradle and cassette sections. The cradle construction is thus translatably displaceable relative to the cassette construction for positioning the cradle-cassette apparatus in either a cradle-closed position or a cradle-exposed position. The anterior cradle and cassette sections face in the same direction when in the cradle-exposed position, and the anterior cradle and cassette sections facing in opposite directions when in the cradle-closed position.

主权项

1. A cradle-cassette combination for encasing and selectively displaying an electronic device, the cradle-cassette combination comprising:
a cradle construction, the cradle construction being sized and shaped to removably receive an electronic device, the cradle construction comprising an anterior cradle section, anterior cradle surfacing, a posterior cradle section, posterior cradle surfacing, a superior cradle section, an inferior cradle section, laterally-opposed lateral cradle sections, and a hinge axis of rotation, the lateral cradle sections each comprising hinge axis-enabling posts adjacent the superior cradle section, the hinge axis-enabling posts extending laterally and being coaxial; and a cassette construction, the cassette construction being sized and shaped to translatably receive the cradle construction, the cassette construction comprising an anterior cassette section, anterior cassette surfacing, a posterior cassette section, posterior cassette surfacing, a superior cassette section, an inferior cassette section, and laterally-opposed lateral cassette sections, the laterally-opposed lateral cassette sections each comprising a primary groove-defining flange, the primary groove-defining flanges extending medially for defining laterally-opposed posterior grooves and laterally-opposed anterior grooves; the hinge axis-enabling posts being translatably received at the laterally-opposed lateral cassette sections within the anterior grooves, the cradle construction thus being translatably displaceable relative to the cassette construction for selectively positioning said cradle-cassette combination intermediate a cradle-closed configuration and a cradle-exposed configuration, the cradle construction being rotatable about the hinge axis of rotation via the hinge axis-enabling posts when said posts are positioned at the superior cassette section, the cradle construction thereby being rotatably positionable intermediate the cradle-closed configuration and the cradle-exposed configuration, the anterior cradle surfacing and anterior cassette surfacing facing in the same direction when in the cradle-exposed configuration, the anterior cradle surfacing and anterior cassette surfacing facing in opposite directions when in the cradle-closed configuration.