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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 12, 1992
David M Hiatt, Ballwin, MO (US);
Southwestern Bell Technology Resources, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for storing data is disclosed, which has a storage medium support frame for supporting storage medium carrying members of similar configuration. The size of the storage medium support frame can be changed (i.e., adjusted) to accommodate an arbitrary number of storage medium carrying members. In one embodiment, the storage medium carrying member may be in the form of a rewritable optical disk or another type of optical storage platter. The storage medium support frame comprises a plurality of disk units which may be coupled to each other, each disk unit having a disk support structure for supporting at least one platter. The disk units are provided with mechanisms for detachably connecting, and thereby stacking, a variable number of disk units together to form the storage medium support frame. As the disk units are stacked, i.e., detachably connected, axles of the respective platters are interconnected with each other to form a common axle located at a common axis of the storage medium support frame. In an alternative embodiment, a multi-platter assembly having a plurality of platters and a common axle may be removably mounted to a storage medium support frame. A spring-biased bearing mechanism is provided for holding the common axle so that the center axis of the common axle coincide with the common axis of rotation of the storage medium support frame.