Cassette loading machine

Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor – Means joining flexible indefinite length or endless bodies...

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156505, 156569, 242 56R, 242 581, B65H 2100

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044862628

ABSTRACT:
An improved cassette storing, feeding and handling mechanism is provided for a machine for loading magnetic tape into C-Zero video tape cassettes. The machine is of the type having a tape loading cycle which includes cutting the cassette leader into two sections, splicing one leader section to the end of a supply of magnetic tape, winding the one leader section and a predetermined length of magnetic tape into the cassette, severing the magnetic tape, and splicing the trailing end of the tape wound into the cassette to the second leader section. The improved mechanism comprises a magazine adapted to store C-Zero cassettes, means for feeding cassettes one at a time from the magazine, a cassette carrier, guide means for guiding cassettes fed from said magazine to said carrier, means for reciprocating the cassette carrier from a first cassette receiving position to a preselected cassette loading position, means for holding a C-Zero cassette in said loading position for the duration of a loading cycle and then discharging the loaded cassette. The improved mechanism also may include means for assuring that a cassette is properly positioned on the carrier and means for accumulating a selected number of cassettes and discharging them as a group to a receiver or conveyor. The mechanism is arranged so that it may be easily adapted for handling two different types of video cassettes.

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