Apparatus for, and methods of, processing a slave cassette to obtain a transfer of an image on a master tape to a slave tape in the slave cassette,申请号US19930028240-传众专利搜索

Apparatus for, and methods of, processing a slave cassette to obtain a transfer of an image on a master tape to a slave tape in the slave cassette

申请公布号：US5537267(A)

申请号：US19930028240

申请日期：1993.03.09

申请公布日期：1996.07.16

申请人：

HIGHTREE MEDIA CORPORATION

发明人：NELSON, ALFRED M.;REDMAN, CHARLES E.;RAFFAELLI, ALAN N.

分类号：G11B5/86;G11B15/00;G11B15/68;(IPC1-7):G11B15/68

主分类号：G11B5/86

摘要：Slave cassettes each including a slave tape and having a peripheral groove are stacked in a first station. Gripping fingers movable into the grooves in the forward cassette and the next cassette grip the forward cassette. During the pivoting of the cassette to a second station, a cover on the cassette is pivoted to expose the slave tape. At the second station, threading arms are moved from retracted to extended positions. The cassette and the threading arms are then moved to a third station planar with a pinch roller which is displaced from the capstan. The threading arms are then retracted to dispose the slave tape on the capstan. With a master tape on the pinch roller, the pinch roller is moved to a position abutting the capstan. The pinch roller and capstan are then rotated to transfer the image on the master tape to the slave tape such that the image beginning is at the slave tape beginning. The threading arms are extended; the pinch roller is moved to the displaced position; the cassette and the threading arms are moved to the second station; and the threading arms are retracted to decouple the slave tape from the capstan. The cassette is then moved to a position where belts are coupled to the cassette and the gripping fingers are thereafter released from the cassette. The belts then move the cassette to the mouth of a fourth station. Pins are rotated to move the cassette into the fourth station.