Patent · US Expired

Device for stacking microcassettes

US4594042A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJul 9, 1984
Grant dateJun 10, 1986
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Expiry dateJul 9, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S414/111
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An improvement in a changer apparatus of the type having a recording deck to which individual recording media are transported, one at a time, and an output stack for receiving and storing in stack configuration recording media that have been removed from the recording deck, including a device for laterally transporting a recording medium to the output stack, the improvement comprising a lifting element disposed at the output stack and contacted by the recording medium that is laterally transported to the output stack to raise those recording media then stored in the output stack, whereupon the laterally transported recording medium is positioned as the bottommost medium in the output stack.

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