Housing and speaker arrangement for magnetic sound recording and reproduction device

Claim 1

Portable magnetic sound recording and reproducing means comprising, in combination, a housing for containing recording and reproducing components including tape driving mechanisms, and amplifier and batteries, for cooperation with the tape cassette; said housing having substantially rectangular top and bottom walls, relatively elongated side walls and end walls extending between said side walls and being formed with a recess to conformingly receive a tape cassette; one of said end walls being formed with a pair of longitudinally spaced and aligned keyhole slots; respective contact plates in said housing beneath each slot and electricalLy connected to the components in said housing; one side wall having jack means connected to the components in said housing and arranged to receive plugs on devices connectible to said housing; the other side wall having manually operable operating mode selecting controls; a casing containing a small loudspeaker and having a side wall of s size and shape corresponding to said one end wall, said casing side wall having a pair of headed pins connected to said small loudspeaker and arranged to be inserted into said keyhole slots and into engagement with the respective contact plates; said casing being disengageably connected to said one housing end wall, to form a conforming extension of said housing, by inserting said headed pins into the wider portions of said keyhole slots and sliding said casing to move said pins into the narrower portions of said keyhole slots; a cord connected to said loudspeaker and receivable in a recess in said casing; and plug means on the end of said cord engageable in a selected jack means; whereby said loudspeaker is selectively securable, electrically and mechanically to said housing, or connected electrically to said housing and positioned remotely therefrom.