Tape handling device

Details Tape handling device Tape handling device

1982-12-17

1984-09-04

Christian, Leonard D.

Advancing material of indeterminate length

By fluid current

And web storage

226 7, 226118, B65H 1732

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044692650

ABSTRACT:
A tape handling device for the handling and storage of an endless flexible tape is described. The device may be used in conjunction with audio recorders, equipment controllers, data processors, or other systems requiring signal storage on tape. The device includes a storage bin having tape entrance and exit ports and a central storage area in which the majority of the tape is stored at any time in a series of serpentine folds. A tape drive mechanism drives the tape out of and into the bin and past a transducer head or heads. A vacuum plenum is connected to the storage bin for drawing air into the bin through the ports and out of the bin through the plenum connection, the air flow acting to draw the tape into the bin through the entrance port.

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patent: 3633807 (1972-01-01), Williams

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