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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1976
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Albert H Maxwell, Jr, Raleigh, NC (US);
Herman Q Wilson, Clayton, NC (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ; G11B / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
242198 ; 360 93 ;
Abstract
Yieldable retainer assemblies are symmetrically positioned on a tape deck and include rounded contact surfaces for engaging the outer side of a tape cartridge and clamping it against a base plate. A pair of locating posts extend from the plate through locator holes in the bottom side of the cartridge to retain the cartridge in a predetermined playing position. A pair of driving hubs of a reel driver assembly have resiliently shiftable pins carried by the hubs for self-adjusting fitting into holes of driven hubs of the cartridge reels when slight misalignment occurs between the driving and reel hubs.