Patent ID: 6216421
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
A device for seating and unseating a cassette lid from a cassette for storing a plurality of removable members, said cassette having a length and a width and having interior slots for retaining said removable members in a widthwise parallel relationship, said cassette lid having a pair of downwardly depending pliable flaps that are configured to fasten to opposite widthwise ends of said cassette, said device comprising:a base;a first guide extending upwardly from said base; anda second guide extending upwardly from said base, said first and second guides having upper extents with inwardly facing surfaces that are spaced apart by a distance slightly greater than said length of said cassette and with outwardly facing surfaces that are spaced apart by a distance slightly less than a distance between said pliable flaps of said cassette lid, each said first and second guide having an upper region with an expanding cross sectional dimension from said inwardly facing surface to said outwardly facing surface;wherein said cassette lid is unseated by applying downward pressure on said cassette lid while said cassette is positioned such that said upper extents project between said cassette and said pliable flaps.