Material or article handling – Plural – static structures for supporting discrete loads and... – Load-underlying members
Patent
1999-06-02
2000-12-12
Bratile, Steven A.
Material or article handling
Plural, static structures for supporting discrete loads and...
Load-underlying members
49 68, 414277, 312287, B65G 1137
Patent
active
06158942&
ABSTRACT:
A tape cartridge access port includes frames defining a series of tape cartridge magazine cavities for directly loading magazines filled with tape cartridges with the labels on the front surfaces of the tape cartridges oriented towards the robotics of an automated cartridge library. The tape cartridge access port has safety doors which prevent access by an operator to the robotics of the automated cartridge library while allowing the magazines and the tape cartridges to be accessible to the operator when the robotics are in operation on other tape cartridges. The safety doors are triggered and released by a magazine loaded into the tape cartridge access port. The tape cartridge access port also has an outer door panel locked and unlocked by a library management unit of the automated cartridge library to prevent the operator and the robotics of the automated cartridge library from handling a magazine at the same time.
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Apple James L.
Grow Roger H.
Bratile Steven A.
Storage Technology Corporation
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