Media recovery technology
AssigneeIron Mountain Incorporated
InventorKelly Pribble
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Abstract
A method of remediating a media asset comprising a magnetic tape includes preliminarily cleaning the media asset, treating the media asset, and finally cleaning the media asset. Treating the media asset includes baking the media asset, determining whether adjacent layers of the tape are stuck to each other, and re-baking the media asset. If adjacent layers of the tape are stuck to each other, the method includes submerging the magnetic tape in a cleaning bath for a predetermined period of time, unwinding the magnetic tape from a supply reel to a take-up reel at an unwind speed while drying the magnetic tape, and rewinding the magnetic tape onto the supply reel at a rewind speed before re-baking the media asset.
Claims20
A method of remediating residue on a media asset comprising a tape provided on a supply reel such that the layers of the tape are adjacent and in contact with each other, the method comprising:
- preliminarily cleaning the media asset;
- treating the media asset;
- and
- finally cleaning the media asset,
- wherein treating the media asset comprises:
- baking the media asset;
- determining whether adjacent layers of the tape are stuck to each other and, if so:
- submerging the tape in a cleaning bath for a predetermined period of time,
- unwinding the tape from the supply reel to a take-up reel at an unwind speed while drying the magnetic tape, and
- rewinding the tape onto the supply reel at a rewind speed;
- and
- re-baking the media asset.
A cleaning device for a tape comprising:
- a body;
- a first cleaning arm connected to the body and comprising a first cleaner positioned on the first cleaning arm;
- a second cleaning arm connected to the body and comprising a second cleaner positioned on the second cleaning arm;
- and
- a receiving area defined between the first cleaning arm and the second cleaning arm and configured to receive a tape such that the first cleaner contacts a first side of the tape and the second cleaner contacts a second side of the tape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.