Xerox Corporation

Texor Corporation

Bernard D Benz

Thomas D Gross

Edward M Carlin, Jr

The autoloading mechanism accepts diskettes stacked in an input tray and loads each into a slightly modified commercial disk drive for read-write operations. At the end of these operations, the diskette is either rejected or inserted into an output tray. The diskette transport mechanism uses a pair of belts, unidirectionally travelling along a simple loop-shaped path, to load an input diskette into the drive and insert an output diskette into the output tray while travelling a distance equal to half the belt length. The disk drive is easily removed for servicing or replacement.

Autoloading, interchangeable-media, disk-drive apparatus

A ribbon cartridge for use in impact printers, typewriters or the like in which a supply spool and a take-up spool are enclosed in a housing with the center of each spool being supported for rotation and for floating movement along a guide path. A fixed center drive capstan imparts surface movement to the take-up spool which in turn imparts surface movement to the supply spool. A spring urges the surfaces of the spools together and the take-up spool against the drive capstan to effect the serial drive train.

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Portola Valley, CA, United States of America

Bernard D Benz