Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Strand tensioning device – Tortuous course
Patent
1976-01-19
1977-04-19
Christian, Leonard D.
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Strand tensioning device
Tortuous course
360 96, G03B 104, G11B 1532, G11B 2304
Patent
active
040184030
ABSTRACT:
A loading mechanism for delivering a standard video cassette onto a pair of reel drive hubs of a video recorder/reproducer including an open shelf having a bottom, opposed side walls, and opposed top sections, the shelf being horizontally translatable under control of the cassette itself between a forward, cassette receiving position and a rearward position; means for sensing that both rear corners of the cassette have reached the rearward position and that the operator has released the cassette; means for lowering the shelf and the video cassette therein onto the reel drive hubs, the hubs extending through a pair of holes in the shelf bottom; a plurality of posts extending through holes in the shelf bottom, adjacent the four corners thereof, for contacting the bottom of the cassette in the lowered position of the shelf; means including the top shelf sections for clamping the side edges of the cassette onto the posts; and means operative when the shelf reaches the lowered position for momentarily applying a force to the top of the cassette, directly above the reels therein, to force the reels onto the reel drive hubs.
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patent: 3764089 (1973-10-01), Yoshida
patent: 3807653 (1974-04-01), Van der Maaden
patent: 3832734 (1974-08-01), Childress, Jr. et al.
patent: 3870247 (1975-03-01), Carisey
patent: 3882542 (1975-05-01), Nakamichi
patent: 3896492 (1975-07-01), Socias
Christian Leonard D.
Hinderstein Philip M.
Odetics, Inc.
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