Dynamic information storage or retrieval – Information location or remote operator actuated control – Selective addressing of storage medium
Patent
1994-07-01
1996-07-23
Levy, Stuart S.
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
Information location or remote operator actuated control
Selective addressing of storage medium
369 36, G11B 1722
Patent
active
055397123
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a record playing device having two record magazines located opposite one another that contain record holders with records located in superimposed storage compartments, and having a traveling transport device to convey a desired record with the associated record holder back and forth between the storage compartment and a playback unit.
A record playing device of this type is known from DE 3,922,721.A1. In this case the record magazines, which each have a plurality of superimposed storage compartments for storing a corresponding number of record holders that each receive one record, are disposed laterally and opposite one another in a housing. A transport device that travels up and down to convey a desired record with the associated record holder back and forth between the storage compartment and a playback unit is located in the space between the record magazines. The transport device has two pull-out devices for the record holders which can be controlled independently of one another and that travel horizontally on the transport device. The playback unit is stationarily mounted between and beneath the two record magazines opposite one another. Either the two pull-out devices of the transport device are located in a ready position for pulling out a record holder for a record disposed in the associated record magazine, or the one pull-out device has traveled into a central position in which it fixes the record with the record holder, the record having been removed from the associated record magazine, concentrically to the record turntable of the playback unit, while the other pull-out device remains in its ready position for the other record magazine.
In order to permit a temporally immediate, consecutive playback of records, as is required in discotheques, in this known record playing device, a plurality of playback units having respectively associated transport devices are disposed in series one behind the other, with the interposition of a record holder that is open on both sides and accessible by means of adjacent transport devices, with a further record magazine provided at each end of the series. This is disadvantageous in that a separate transport device is associated with each playback unit, which requires increased space. Furthermore, the records can always only be returned to the same record magazine after playback.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to create a record playing device of the type mentioned at the outset which, in a simple and compact design, permits the next selected record to be readied before the end of playback of the previously selected record, and in which the records can be removed from and returned to the record magazine in the desired order.
This object is attained in accordance with the invention in that at least two playback units are provided that can be serviced by the transport device and controlled independently of one another, and the individual record with the record holder can selectively be transported from the one to the other record magazine to the one or the other playback unit and, after playback, be replaced, again selectively, in the one or the other record magazine by means of the transport device.
The result of these measures is a record playing device of relatively small size which, while a record taken from one of the two record magazines is played back on a playback unit, permits the next record selected from one of the record magazines to be readied on the other playback unit, so that the records can be played back in immediate succession, i.e. without a pause. Moreover, the option exists that is to be used particularly in regard to the selection of pieces of music during playback of slowly fading out the last seconds of the record being played back and blending it with the first seconds of the next record to be played, which is correspondingly slowly faded in. The effect achieved in doing this corresponds to the effect which results when pieces of music are blended together in
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Heidersberger Boerge
Menke Wilhelm
Niederlein Horst
Schulze Ullrich
Giordana Adriana
Levy Stuart S.
NSM Aktiengesellschaft
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