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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Barry H. Schwab, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Assignee:
Videa, LLC, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/86 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/86 ;
Abstract
A single machine combines both a high-speed magnetic tape duplication apparatus and a cassette loader. The duplicator may accommodate either anhysteretic or thermo-magnetic transfer, and the master tape transport mechanism may function either in a shuttle or a bin-loop mode. In an alternative embodiment of the invention, a single master tape is threaded through multiple transfer heads, each head being fed from a separate pancake-type copy-tape supply reel and routed into dedicated cassette loading stations to multiple system throughput.