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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:
Aug. 07, 1990
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bernard D Benz, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Texor Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 9806 ; 360 9801 ;
Abstract
The autoloading mechanism accepts diskettes stacked in an input tray and loads each into a slightly modified commercial disk drive for read-write operations. At the end of these operations, the diskette is either rejected or inserted into an output tray. The diskette transport mechanism uses a pair of belts, unidirectionally travelling along a simple loop-shaped path, to load an input diskette into the drive and insert an output diskette into the output tray while travelling a distance equal to half the belt length. The disk drive is easily removed for servicing or replacement.