Patent · US Expired

In-arm stylus cleaner for disc record player

US4486872A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 28, 1982
Grant dateDec 4, 1984
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Expiry dateSep 28, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B3/58
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The in-arm stylus cleaner includes a cleaner arm mounted for to-and-fro motion in the stylus arm carriage. To clean the stylus, the cleaner arm is retracted, the reproducing stylus is raised back up into the carriage arm, the cleaner arm is freed to allow a wiping element mounted thereon to sweep the stylus tip, and the stylus is then gently lowered onto a turntable-disposed record to resume playback operations.

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