Patent ID: 8444009

Claim:
A magazine having compartments for receiving cassettes, comprising: an outer housing having an open top and an open front side; an inner housing disposed within the outer housing and that defines an interior space and a plurality of compartments, the inner housing having opposing side walls, and each compartment being formed by at least two spring elements integrated respectively into the side walls symmetrically with respect to a longitudinal direction and projecting into the interior space, wherein the spring elements have respective spring heads directed toward the open front side of the outer housing; a generally U-shaped feed element mounted on the inner housing movably reciprocally in the longitudinal direction over a depth of a said compartment so that the feed element moves a cassette from one said compartment to an adjacent said compartment and so that the cassette pushes a pair of opposing said spring elements outward with respect to the interior space; wherein the feed element has at least two wedge elements for each compartment which project elastically into the interior space proximate the side walls of the inner housing, and wherein the wedge elements have wedge heads directed toward the open front side of the outer housing; and wherein the spring heads and the wedge heads in a compartment lie in a common compartment plane to form a bearing surface for a cassette.