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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:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Manfred Schlatter, Freiburg, DE;
Manfred Schultheiss, Kehl, DE;
Assignee:
Emtec Magnetics GmbH, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
242334 ; 2424206 ; 2425382 ; 360 71 ;
Abstract
A mechanical and finishing and/or signal processing apparatus for tapes, in particular magnetic tapes, includes at least two tape transporting devices, which apply an average tape tension of 2 N per inch (25.4 mm) of tape width and consequently remain below about 20% of the maximum tensile force of the tape material, to avoid permanent material deformations. The processing devices may be smoothing, abrading, polishing and cleaning devices and also signal recording/reproducing devices and/or signal or tape quality control devices.