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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 1978
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1976
George D Rehklau, Los Altos, CA (US);
Electro-Sound, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for loading tape onto the hub of a magnetic tape cartridge spool and including a tape supply for supplying a continuous strip of tape, a carriage for locating the cartridge at a first position, a hub drive for turning the spool to wind tape thereon, a tape cutter for cutting the length of tape from the continuous strip, a flyer carried by the hub drive for releasably holding the ends of the tape wound upon the hub, a tape supply arm for moving the lead end of the strip into contact with the flyer, for guiding the strip as it is wound onto the hub and for aligning and holding the strip relative to the cutter, a take-up loop arm for measuring out a selected loop length of the tail portion of the length of tape wound upon the hub, for holding the tape as it is cut by the cutter and for moving the tail end of the length into contact with the flyer and positioning it in abutting relationship with the lead end held thereby, a splicer for applying a segment of splicing tape across the abutted lead and tail ends as they are held by the flyer, and a control system for actuating each of the operative components of the apparatus in a predetermined sequence.