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Automatic changer for player/recorder of optical magnetic discs and cards
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Inventors: Staar, Marcel J. H.;
Assignee: Staar Development Company S.A. (Brussels, BE)
Primary Examiner: Stephan; Steven L.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Leydig, Voit & Mayer
A player/recorder apparatus with an automatic changer mechanism for information carriers in the form of cards or discs. An arcuate magazine stores a plurality of information carriers in multiple compartments extending radially from a center, each compartment being adapted to store an information carrier in a storage position in a radial plane relative to the center. One or more player/recorder devices for supporting an information carrier in an operating position are spaced circumferentially from the arcuate magazine. A symmetrical rotary changer is mounted for angular rotation about the center so as to be positionable in alignment with the entrance of any one of the compartments or of any one of the player/recorder devices, the rotary changer having a member for shuttling an information carrier by movement edgewise in its own plane between a storage position in a magazine compartment and a transition position on the rotary changer and between the transition position on the rotary changer and the operating position in the player/recorder devices, the rotary changer being angularly rotatable through at least 180.degree. to permit reversal of the sides of an information carrier in the transition position. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The principal object is to provide a very simple, economically realized system of high performance, which is easy to use.
Another object is also to provide a system which permits the simple introduction and removal of an information carrier while substantially excluding dust and other pollutants from the internal environment of the enclosure.
Another object is to provide means by which the possibility of error in storage locations may for all intents and purposes be eliminated.
To attain these ends, the apparatus includes a fixed or arcuate magazine, and a fixed player/recorder positioned adjacent the magazine, located in generally a circular arrangement about the same center axis, and a rotary changer pivoting in the center of the circle formed by the arcuate magazine and the processing unit.
In pivoting, this changer may access any angular position, grasp an information carrier, and pivot to any other angular position in order to position it there.
Means are also provided to enable the insertion or removal of an information carrier from the unit through an opening communicating with a waiting or transfer location within the magazine itself, or with a chamber situated in the vicinity of and on the same axis as that of the magazine.
For certain specific usages, it is also an object to provide several player/recorder devices in order to save time when playing successively selected data found on different information carriers or also, for example, for the continuous playing of musical tunes, going from one tune to the next in a cross fade, or also to be able to read information from one information carrier and to transfer and record the information at the same time onto another.
Provision is made, therefore, to be able to position several player/recorder devices in conjunction with a fixed magazine, and served by a single rotary changer.
For a better understanding of the invention, examples of it are described hereinafter.
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