Brush – broom – and mop making – Broom-making machines – Nailing and stapling
Patent
1990-05-31
1992-10-20
Tupper, Robert S.
Brush, broom, and mop making
Broom-making machines
Nailing and stapling
G11B 1568
Patent
active
051575655
ABSTRACT:
A cassette loader for a DAT cassette drive includes a specially-constructed, multi-chamber magazine which rides in an elevator to bring selected ones of a plurality of cassettes in the magazine into operative alignment with the inlet of the DAT cassette drive. A push-pull mechanism is positioned at a distance from the DAT cassette drive inlet so that the magazine is transported between the mechanism and the inlet. The mechanism includes a motor-driven scissors mechanism whose output arm extends into a selected one of the plurality of chambers in the magazine, thereby pushing the cassette out of the chamber and into the DAT drive. A latching means, carried on, and extending beyond, the end of the scissors output arm, is inserted between the cassette and the floor of the chamber containing it, through a slot which runs front-to-back along the floor, and hooks into a recess which is characteristic of DAT cassettes. When a cassette is ejected from the DAT drive into the selected chamber of the magazine, the scissors output arm is retracted, and the hook rides up a ramp at the end of the slot in the floor of the magazine chamber, into engagement with the cassette recess, thereby hooking into the cassette and drawing it out as the scissors arm retracts.
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Distributed Logic Corporation
Tupper Robert S.
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