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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 1986
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
George M Woodley, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Assignee:
King Instrument Corporation, Westboro, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
414126 ; 198395 ; 198399 ; 221173 ; 242 / ; 360 92 ; 414 31 ;
Abstract
A novel cassette storage and feeder mechanism for a tape winding machine, comprising (a) storage chute for storing a plurality of empty cassettes randomly disposed in one or the other of first and second predetermined orientations, (b) a gate for discharging cassettes one at a time from said storage chute, (c) cassette orienter for causing each discharged cassette disposed in said first orientation to be shifted to said second orientation, and (d) a feeder for carrying cassettes away from said cassette orienter and supplying them one at a time to a tape loading station on the tape winding machine with the uniform desired orientation.