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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1989
Ionel Mondocea, Glendale, CA (US);
William J Ullrich, Glendora, CA (US);
Frederic F Grant, Bellflower, CA (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a magnetic tape cassette storage and handling apparatus which is compact, reliable and uncomplex. The apparatus includes a ferris wheel structure having a plurality of circumferentially spaced compartments for storing individual magnetic tape cassettes. A cassette handling device is located in a central opening of the ferris wheel structure. The apparatus is preferably mounted adjacent to a magnetic tape recorder/player, so that the cassette handling device loads and unloads a cassette from a compartment of the ferris wheel structure into and out of the magnetic tape recorder/player.