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Fast deploying tape transport

US4652946A · kind A · utility

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29Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateApr 12, 1985
Grant dateMar 24, 1987
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Expiry dateApr 12, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B15/6653
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A machine for extracting tape from a cassette and for threading the tape to a monoplanar disposition for longitudinal shuttling and transducing by fixed transducing heads, and then further threading the tape, if desired, to a helical disposition around a rotating head and scanning drum assembly without interrupting the longitudinal shuttling or transducing action.

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