Patent ID: 7387257

Claim:
A card recording apparatus comprising: a card storage cassette storing a plurality of cards in a manner of stacking vertically thereon said cards to maintain a card face of said cards substantially horizontally, a pick-up roller ejecting the undermost one of said plurality of cards stored in said card storage cassette from said storage cassette, and a recording means recording predetermined information on said card ejected from said card storage cassette, wherein said card storage cassette includes; a cassette body having a bottom plate on which said plurality of cards are vertically stacked in a manner of maintaining said card face substantially horizontally, the bottom plate allowing said pick-up roller to enter therethrough, a front plate being provided vertically on said bottom plate so as to guide a front edge face of said plurality of cards and having an opening through which the undermost one of said plurality of cards is ejected, the opening being provided at a lower portion of said front plate, and a left-and-right pair of side plates being provided vertically on said bottom plate so as to guide a right and a left edge face of said plurality of cards, respectively, the side plates being orthogonal with said front plate; and a cassette cover having at least a top plate opposing said bottom plate of said cassette body and serving to close an upper portion of said cassette cover, and a rear plate suspending from said top plate and serving to close a rear portion of said cassette cover, the rear plate opposing said front plate of said cassette body; and wherein said card storage cassette is provided with a vertical guide means that restricts a two dimensional position of said cassette cover in relation to said cassette body and allows said cassette cover to vertically move in relation to said cassette body, the vertical guide means being located between said left-and-right pair of side plates of said cassette body and said rear plate of said cassette cover, so that while said cassette body and said cassette cover are framed into a box shape by use of said vertical guide means, said cassette cover is detachable from said cassette body along said vertical guide means.