Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Coil holder or support – Spool or core
Patent
1974-12-23
1976-12-14
McCarthy, Edward J.
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Coil holder or support
Spool or core
156502, 242 584, B65H 1920
Patent
active
039971236
ABSTRACT:
A machine is provided for automatically loading empty cassettes one at a time with magnetic tape. Each empty cassette contains a leader. The machine comprises a magazine for storing a supply of empty cassettes, means for holding an empty cassette in a selected loading position below the magazine, means for withdrawing the leader from an empty cassette located at said loading position and positioning the withdrawn leader on a splicing block assembly, means for sequentially (a) severing the leader into two sections, (b) splicing one leader section to the leading end of a supply tape, (c) winding a selected length of said supply tape into the cassette, (d) severing the supply tape, (e) splicing the trailing end of the supply tape to the other leader section, and (f) winding the trailing end of the severed length of supply tape and the other leader section into the cassette, means for discharging a loaded cassette from the loading position and feeding another empty cassette to said loading position from the magazine, and means for sequentially and cyclically activating the foregoing means so that successive cassettes in the magazine are automatically loaded and discharged from the machine.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3637153 (1972-01-01), King
patent: 3787270 (1974-01-01), King
patent: 3814343 (1974-06-01), Bennett
patent: 3825461 (1974-07-01), Gorman
patent: 3848825 (1974-11-01), Zielke
King Instrument Corporation
McCarthy Edward J.
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