Rack mountable data recording assembly
AssigneePrimera Technology, Inc.
InventorsMark Strobel, Darren Haas
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Abstract
A recording assembly having a rack mountable housing is disclosed. The rack mountable housing disclosed has a width dimension sized to fit within a standard opening or spacing between rails of the rack. The recording assembly is mounted to rails on the rack via mounting flanges. The mounting flanges include slots which align with openings on the rails to connect the flanges to the rack. In illustrated embodiments, the mounting flanges are formed integral with the housing or on a separate bracket or shelf unit which is secured to the rack to support or mount the data recording assembly.
Claims22
A recording assembly comprising:
- a rack mountable housing having a width dimension between opposed sides smaller than a width dimension between spaced rails of a rack and the housing being mountable through openings formed in mounting flanges that extend laterally beyond the opposed sides of the housing to align with openings of the spaced rails of the rack and the mounting flanges being formed integrally with the rack mountable housing or connectable to the rack separate from the rack mountable housing;
- a data recorder enclosed within the rack mountable housing and operable to receive data and record or copy the data on a disc;
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- a printing assembly enclosed with the rack mountable housing including a printing head operable to print labels or information on the disc.
A recording assembly comprising:
- a rack mountable housing having a width dimension between opposed sides smaller than a width dimension between spaced rails of a rack and the housing being mountable through openings formed in mounting flanges that extend laterally beyond the opposed sides of the housing to align with openings of the spaced rails of the rack and the mounting flanges being formed integrally with the rack mountable housing or connectable to the rack separate from the rack mountable housing;
- a data recorder enclosed within the rack mountable housing and operable to receive data and record or copy the data on a disc;
- a least one hopper configured to store a plurality of stacked discs;
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- a disc transport assembly including a gripper head configured to retrieve discs from the at least one hopper and load discs into and unload discs from the data recorder.
A method comprising the steps of:
- mounting a recording assembly on a rack;
- loading a plurality of discs into one or more hoppers in the recording device configured to hold the plurality of stacked discs;
- transporting one or more of the plurality of discs from the one or more hoppers to a data recorder;
- loading the one or more discs in the data recorder;
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- recording data to the one more discs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.