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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1987
Marcel J Staar, Brussels, BE;
Staar Development Company S.A., Brussels, BE;
Abstract
A player/recorder apparatus with an automatic changer mechanism for information carriers in the form of cards or discs. An arcuate magazine stores a plurality of information carriers in multiple compartments extending radially from a center, each compartment being adapted to store an information carrier in a storage position in a radial plane relative to the center. One or more player/recorder devices for supporting an information carrier in an operating position are spaced circumferentially from the arcuate magazine. A symmetrical rotary changer is mounted for angular rotation about the center so as to be positionable in alignment with the entrance of any one of the compartments or of any one of the player/recorder devices, the rotary changer having a member for shuttling an information carrier by movement edgewise in its own plane between a storage position in a magazine compartment and a transition position on the rotary changer and between the transition position on the rotary changer and the operating position in the player/recorder devices, the rotary changer being angularly rotatable through at least 180.degree. to permit reversal of the sides of an information carrier in the transition position.