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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 1979
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1977
Alan Painter, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Daniel R O'Neill, Santa Monica, CA (US);
George L Glaeser, Jr, Culver City, CA (US);
Telex Computer Products, Inc., Tulsa, OK (US);
Abstract
The present invention is an improved capstan which is used in a magnetic tape transport system, to accelerate a length of magnetic tape. The capstan includes a cylindrical post, adapted to be connected to a drive shaft of a capstan motor in a magnetic tape transport system, a pair of discs, each of which has a set of outer holes disposed adjacent to and distributed about its periphery and a set of inner holes disposed adjacent to and distributed about its central axis, coupled together by the cylindrical post disposed about their central axes. The capstan also includes a first set of cylindrical posts, coupling the inner holes of one disc to the inner holes of the other disc, and a second set of cylindrical posts, coupling some of the outer holes of one disc to some of the outer holes of the other disc. The capstan further includes a cylindrical tape band, which has a set of grooves running concentrically with the discs and the other edges of which are joined to the peripheries of the discs. The capstan if formed by a two step process of plating a platen in the shape of the capstan with a metal, such as nickel, and then dissolving or etching away the platen in a selected solution. The resulting capstan not only has a relatively large diameter with a low moment of inertia, but also a low mass without sacrificing its structural strength.