Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Unwinding and rewinding a machine convertible information... – Cartridge system
Patent
1993-12-30
1995-07-18
Darling, John P.
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Unwinding and rewinding a machine convertible information...
Cartridge system
242342, 242349, G11B 1500
Patent
active
054333970
ABSTRACT:
In a tape drive system, a cassette comprises a pair of spaced apart flangeless hubs and an access opening between the hubs. Each hub is provided with a cap of magnetically attractive material. Each hub receives a rotatable spindle which has a magnetic portion at its upper end. There are abutting surfaces on each hub and spindle which act as registration surfaces to provide a contiguous but non engaging relationship between the spindle magnetic portion and the hub cap of magnetically attractive material. The magnetic attraction between the magnetic portion of each spindle and its respective hub is the sole force urging each hub into engagement with its respective spindle. The abutting registration surfaces are located on each spindle relative to the bottom wall of the cassette so as to suspend its respective hub between the housing top and bottom walls. On each side of the access opening, there is mounted a cylindrical guide member which has a stationary flange at each end and a stationary central grooved portion between the flanges. The grooved surface comprises concave grooves providing a surface roughness average between 20 and 40 microinches. Each of said hubs has a tape engagement portion which has a tape center line axially located at the center thereof and each of the guide members has a tape center line axially located thereon at the center of said grooved central portion. When connected to a tape drive, the tape center line of each of the guide members and the hubs are substantially aligned with each other in the same plane. The tape extends in a tape transport path from one hub directly to and engaging the grooved central portion of one guide member and across the access opening directly to and engaging the grooved central portion of the other guide member and directly to the other hub. The guide members are the sole members in the cassette engaged by the tape in the tape transport path between said hubs.
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Doninelli Peter D.
Lalouette Marc J.
Stark Dennis C.
Weza Kenneth A.
Darling John P.
Xerox Corporation
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