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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...