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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. 04, 1984
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1982
George M Woodley, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
King Instrument Corporation, Westboro, MA (US);
Abstract
An improved cassette storing, feeding and handling mechanism is provided for a machine for loading magnetic tape into C-Zero video tape cassettes. The machine is of the type having a tape loading cycle which includes cutting the cassette leader into two sections, splicing one leader section to the end of a supply of magnetic tape, winding the one leader section and a predetermined length of magnetic tape into the cassette, severing the magnetic tape, and splicing the trailing end of the tape wound into the cassette to the second leader section. The improved mechanism comprises a magazine adapted to store C-Zero cassettes, means for feeding cassettes one at a time from the magazine, a cassette carrier, guide means for guiding cassettes fed from said magazine to said carrier, means for reciprocating the cassette carrier from a first cassette receiving position to a preselected cassette loading position, means for holding a C-Zero cassette in said loading position for the duration of a loading cycle and then discharging the loaded cassette. The improved mechanism also may include means for assuring that a cassette is properly positioned on the carrier and means for accumulating a selected number of cassettes and discharging them as a group to a receiver or conveyor. The mechanism is arranged so that it may be easily adapted for handling two different types of video cassettes.