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5036503 |
Disc recording and/or playback apparatus with automatic changer
An array of discs are stored in a storage unit, and desired discs are successively selected and taken out of the storage unit by a disc draw/feed mechanism for sequential playback. The disc...
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5031057 |
Tape moving mechanism for automatic time cassette changer
A mechanism in an automatic tape cassette changer for engaging and moving tape cassettes from a tape cassette container to engage a tape cassette player/recorder. The mechanism comprising an...
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5029024 |
Loader for magnetic tape cartridges
The loader for magnetic tape cartridges uses a receiver that holds a single magnetic tape cartridge or a companion cartridge magazine that holds a plurality of preloaded magnetic tape cartridges to...
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5025338 |
Automatic disc carrying and playing device
A disk player with a disk carrier and disk magazine including a pair of reciprocating slide plates provided with guide holes for the disk carrier and the disk magazine. When the slide plates make a...
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5021902 |
Tape changer for loading and unloading a magazine of magnetic tape cartridges
A magazine in which a plurality of cartridges are contained as vertically moved stepwise by a distance separating two successive ones of the cartridges. The lift has a plurality of lift steps...
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5022019 |
Disk-storage device
A disk-storage device comprising a conveying mechanism having a plurality of clutching sections for clutching cartridges; a plurality of recording/reproducing units for recording and reproducing...
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5021901 |
Ferris wheel magnetic tape cassette storage and handling apparatus
Disclosed is a magnetic tape cassette storage and handling apparatus which is compact, reliable and uncomplex. The apparatus includes a ferris wheel structure having a plurality of...
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5019927 |
Rotary cassette carousel
A retrieval and sequencing system, preferably in the form of a tape cassette library is disclosed for automatically playing magnetic tape cassettes, such as video cassettes in regular television...
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5020043 |
Electronic media storage apparatus
A carousel like unit for the storage of floppy disks and other electronic media such as cassette tapes, compact disks, and video tapes. The storage unit rotates about a vertical axis and uses an...
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5016127 |
Mechanism for transporting and receiving large and small tape cassettes
An automatic cassette changer capable of selectively loading any of cassettes of various sizes upon a recording and/or playback unit, comprises cassette-housing racks capable of selectively storing...
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5006940 |
Automatic changer for digital audio cassette tape player
An automatic changer for a digital audio cassette tape player is disclosed which comprises holders for holding tape cassettes inserted into insertion openings with lids of the cassettes being...
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5005090 |
Automatic cassette tape changer
A tape container in an automatic tape cassette changer for holding a plurality of cassette tapes. The tape container having holes in its partition walls corresponding to locations adjacent to the...
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5003417 |
Spring dampener assembly for a sprocket driven belt drive system
A magnetic tape cassette transport/accessor assembly is actuated by a sprocket driven, belt drive system. First and second belt drives drive the transport/accessor assembly in horizontal and...
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5001582 |
Apparatus for automatically changing an information storage medium
An apparatus for automatically changing an information storage medium includes a main body, a storage section having a plurality of storage portions in the main body for storing a plurality of...
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4991041 |
Apparatus for moving a cassette between storage and receiving locations
Disclosed is a magnetic tape cassette handling apparatus which is compact and reliable and which handles cassettes gently and firmly. The handling apparatus includes (a) a pusher member for gently...
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4991040 |
Tape recorder which displays unrecorded time on magnetic tapes
A tape recorder may be provided with a memory which stores data regarding the unrecorded portion remaining on each of a plurality of recording tapes. The data may represent an amount of the...
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4984897 |
Carriage mechanism for automatic extracting and inserting of cassettes
A carriage mechanism operable with a picker assembly mounted at the face of a bin structure having discrete bin locations within that structure for storing cassettes, the picker assembly moveable...
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4984106 |
Cartridge library system and method of operation thereof
An automated magnetic tape cartridge library system includes a cabinet (24) having a door (26) removably and pivotally connected thereto. The cabinet (24) houses a plurality of tape drives...
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4984108 |
Apparatus for transporting magnetic tape cassettes of different sizes
In a magnetic tape cassette storage and magnetic tape cassette record/reproduce system, disclosed is an accessor which inserts or extracts a cassette from a storage location or a record/reproduce...
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4984107 |
Apparatus for transporting a magnetic tape cassette
A magnetic tape cassette transport/accessor assembly for use in a system including magnetic tape cassette storage and magnetic tape cassette record/reproduce apparatus. The cassette...
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4979060 |
Tape change mechanism for cassette apparatus
A tape cartridge apparatus comprises a head base slidably provided on a frame and having at least a head for recording and reproducing a signal on and from a tape in a predetermined cassette...
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4975894 |
Method and apparatus for controlling dictation on or transcription from recording units in a dictation system
A dictation system having two or more recording units, each selectively operable as a dictation unit or a transcription unit, and including a selector for selecting a respective unit for recording...
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4972277 |
Cartridge transport assembly and method of operation thereof
An automated magnetic tape cartridge library system includes a cabinet (24) having a door (26) removably and pivotally connected thereto. The cabinet (24) houses a plurality of tape drives...
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4965673 |
Apparatus for a video recording booth
A coin actuated television camera, recorder and a supply of blank video cassettes are mounted within a recording booth to produce an audible and visible recording of an occupant of the booth on...
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4954918 |
Cassette transfer apparatus
A cassette transfer apparatus includes a transfer frame having a holding portion for holding a cassette in an interior thereof. A drive mechanism for taking a cassette into the holding portion...
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4954915 |
Automatic cassette changer
An automatic cassette changer includes a large number of cassette storing racks in each of which a cassette is stored, a cassette transporter, and a recording and reproducing device. Automatic...
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4945430 |
Carrier apparatus for taking information-storage regular articles in and out
An elevation mechanism for elevating a support member (7) of a picker (6) is suspended at its both ends by strings (17, 18). The strings (17, 18) are stretched to a pull-driving portion disposed at...
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4945429 |
Data security arrangement for an automated magnetic tape cartridge library system
This data security arrangement provides a significant level of data security in an automatic magnetic tape cartridge library by isolating the actual data from the control of the data retrieval...
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4945428 |
Method of managing a media library
A data storage hierarchy includes a media library characterized by a travelling elevator which moves in front of an open-faced wall of storage cells or compartments and ingress-egress slots to a...
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4940275 |
Apparatus for scanning recording media with an automatic medium-change mechanism and structure for mounting same on a vehicle
An apparatus for scanning recording media (a cassette tape deck) with an automatic medium-change mechanism (automatic cassette tape change mechanism) and a novel structure for mounting same in a...
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4937690 |
Automatic exchanging system for storage and retrieval of magnetic tape cassettes
An automatic cassette exchanging system for performing cassette exchange between an information recording/reproducing device such as VTR and a cassette storage device. The automatic cassette...
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4932826 |
Automated cartridge system
A storage and retrieval subsystem in a data processing system includes a plurality of magnetic tape cartridges, a host computer, and a library storage module storing the plurality of magnetic tape...
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4922358 |
Double-cassette tape player
In a double-cassette tape player for driving cassette tapes in a pair of cassettes in an alternative fashion, there is provided a mechanism for moving a single head base to respective positions of...
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4920432 |
System for random access to an audio video data library with independent selection and display at each of a plurality of remote locations
Adapted for use in hotels, hospitals, and similar environments, the disclosed system allows numerous system users to operate user terminals at any of a plurality of locations to access a common...
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4918548 |
Cartridge loader
A tape drive is mounted on a carriage alongside a horizontal or vertical rack of tape cartridges. The carriage supports an arm with a linear actuator for removing a selected cartridge from the rack...
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4918547 |
Door opening and closing mechanism for an automatic charger for recording media
An automatic changer for cassette tapes suited for the use in an automobile or the like is described a tape container which holds a plurality of cassette tapes fits into an automatic recording...
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4912575 |
Apparatus for automatically changing an information memory medium
An automatic changing apparatus includes a storage section wherein a number of optical disk cassettes are stored, a disk drive apparatus, and a transfer frame for transferring the disk cassette...
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4910619 |
Automatic changing system for cassette-type mediums
An automatic changing system for a cassette-type medium, having at least one recording and/or reproducing apparatus, a cassette storage apparatus includes multiple cassette storage compartments,...
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4907889 |
Video cassette library retrieval and sequencing system
A retrieval and sequencing system, preferably in the form of a tape cassette library is disclosed for automatically playing magnetic tape cassettes, such as video cassettes in regular television...
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4903152 |
Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus capable of containing a plurality of recording cassettes
A video tape recorder includes a cassette housing section for housing two tape cassettes. The housing section has a first stand-by region, a tape loading region, and a second stand-by region which...
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4903154 |
Automatic diskette stack loader
Serially transporting diskettes from a stack to at least one disk drive for recording of a selected program thereon and then transporting the diskettes to at least one output stack. Included is...
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4891720 |
Belt drive system for a magnetic tape cassette transport/accessor
Disclosed is magnetic tape cassette transport apparatus for use with a magnetic tape cassette storage and utilization system. Magnetic tape cassettes are transported between locations in the system...
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4879613 |
Cassette tape recorder for multiple cassette tapes
A tape recorder includes: a cassette tape compartment in which a plurality of cassette tapes are detachably mounted; a capstan for coaxially mounting the plurality of cassette tapes housed in the...
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4864438 |
Tape cartridge movement management in an automated tape cartridge library system
The tape cartridge movement management apparatus for an automated tape cartridge library system includes a database that identifies each tape cartridge stored in the library system and its physical...
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4860133 |
Cassette bin structure including a bin section for loading and unloading cassettes
A cart spot player having a tape library or bin structure, a series of tape transports in stacked alignment, and a cassette loading/unloading station as part of the bin structure; at one side of...
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4860134 |
Double video cassette tape recorder
As an alternate to two separate video tape recorders are operated to perform dubbing or the like, the present invention provides a double video cassette tape recorder for dubbing, wherein one of...
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4847714 |
Magnetic head adjusting device for a double cassette tape player
A magnetic head adjusting device for a double cassette tape player wherein a single magnetic head is used commonly and alternately for a pair of cassette loading stations and azimuth adjustment of...
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4839505 |
Apparatus and method for storing and retrieving articles
A machine from which a customer can selectably purchase or rent a videocassette or other such product, e.g., blank videotapes, music disks, and the like, or return a previously rented...
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4839758 |
Magnetic disk cartridge loading-and-unloading device
A magnetic disk cartridge loading-and-unloading device for loading a magnetic recording disk cartridge into a recording and reproducing system and unloading it from the recording and reproducing...
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4837647 |
Video cassette auto-changer
In a video cassette auto-changer which includes a plurality of reproducing and/or recording devices or VTRs, and a plurality of cassette storage bins arrayed in horizontal and vertical directions...
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