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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:
Dec. 07, 1982
Filed:
May. 29, 1979
Daniel O Castrodale, Rochester, MN (US);
Thomas R Fournier, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A tray for a machine operative to sequentially pull jacketed flexible magnetic disks (which may be termed 'diskettes') into a data transferring position in the machine from the tray. The tray has a few open top store grooves for a few diskettes desired to be individually used and has a magazine detachably mounted thereon which has a bottom and a top with a greater number of diskette store grooves in the bottom and top for a group of diskettes to be used together. The machine is operative to partially withdraw and to return to original positions diskettes from the open top store grooves or from the grooves in the magazine.