Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Record transport with head stationary during transducing – Tape record
Patent
1986-12-17
1988-09-20
Wolff, John H.
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Record transport with head stationary during transducing
Tape record
G11B 1568
Patent
active
047729686
ABSTRACT:
An automatic tape cassette loading device is composed of a plurality of cassette storage shelf blocks arranged side-by-side and each including plural tiers of cassette storage compartments for containing respective tape cassettes, a cassette transfer device associated with each of the cassette storage shelf blocks and adapted to perform tape cassette inserting and removing operations in respect to each of the cassette storage compartments of the respective cassette storage shelf block and transferring of tape cassettes over the extent of the respective cassette storage shelf block, a video tape recorder housing block mounted adjacent an end of the side-by-side arrangement of the cassette storage shelf blocks and containing at least one video tape recorder adapted to at least reproduce the signals recorded in a tape cassette delivered thereto from one of the cassette storage shelf blocks, and cassette delivery units provided between the adjoining side-by-side cassette storage shelf blocks and between the video tape recorder housing block and the cassette storage shelf block adjacent thereto and adapted to perform delivery operations of the tape cassettes between the respective blocks. Each of the cassette storage shelf blocks is desirably comprised of two storage shelf portions which are spaced apart to define an aisle therebetween in which the respective cassette transfer device is movable for servicing cassette storage compartments in both shelf portions.
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Moriya Yoshinari
Nonaka Wataru
Ohtsuka Takashi
Saiki Junichi
Bussan Matthew J.
Sinderbrand Alvin
Sony Corporation
Wolff John H.
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