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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1987
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1984
Anthony Ciaraldi, Stamford, CT (US);
Dictaphone Corporation, Rye, NY (US);
Abstract
Changer apparatus of the type having an input hopper for storing fresh record cartridges, an ouput hopper for storing used record cartridges, a recording deck for recording and for playing back messages on the record cartridges and a mechanism for transporting fresh record cartridges, one at a time, from the input hopper along a transport path to the recording deck and for transporting a used record cartridge from the recording deck to the output hopper. The apparatus further comprises a deck support device for supporting the recording deck in an operating position below the transport path and includes an element for supporting one end of the recording deck and a releasable device for supporting the opposite end of the recording deck. The device is releasable to enable the recording deck to pivot to a nonoperating position and thereby permit access thereto by an operator.