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AssigneeC. J. Kennedy Company
InventorCharles J. Kennedy
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A recorder slidably receives the opposite edges of a magnetic tape cartridge within grooved guides and locks the cartridge in an operative position using an opposite pair of movable catches which engage notches in the opposite edges of the cartridge. Cartridge ejection is effected by energizing a solenoid which pulls the opposite catches out of the cartridge edge notches along enough for a pair of spring-loaded elements to push the cartridge forward out of the operative position. A wheel located within the cartridge and coupled to drive a length of magnetic tape therein is engaged with and driven by a drive wheel when the cartridge is in the operative position. The drive wheel is mounted on a drive shaft having an end thereof opposite the drive wheel rotatably supported by a bearing and an opposite portion thereof adjacent the drive wheel supported by another bearing which is resiliently mounted by a spring within an aperture at the top of the housing for the recorder. A motor mounted within the housing provides positive, non-resonant driving of the drive wheel via a bevelled wheel mounted on the motor shaft and having a resilient outer periphery thereof engaged with a second bevelled wheel mounted on the drive shaft adjacent the first-mentioned bearing.
An arrangement for releasably holding a magnetic tape cartridge in an operative position within a recorder, said cartridge having opposite edges which are receivable within grooves in opposite guides on the recorder for sliding movement into and out of the operative position and a notch in each of the opposite edges, comprising:
A recorder for use with a magnetic tape cartridge comprising:
A recorder for use with a magnetic tape cartridge comprising:
For use in an arrangement in which a magnetic tape cartridge is releasably held in an operative position on a recorder, the recorder having opposite guides having grooves therein for receiving the opposite edges of the tape cartridge and at least one of the edges of the tape cartridge having a notch therein, the improvement comprising at least one catch pivotably mounted on the recorder adjacent one of the guides and movable between a first position within the groove of the guide in which the catch engages the tape cartridge at the notch within the edge thereof to stop and positively hold the tape cartridge in the operative position and a second position away from the groove of the guide and outside of the notch within the edge of the cartridge, a spring coupled between the catch and the recorder for normally urging the catch into the first position, and electrically actuated means for overcoming the urging of the spring and moving the catch into the second position when actuated by an electrical signal to initiate release of a tape cartridge from the recroder, the electrically actuated means including a solenoid, and an element pivotably mounted on the recorder and a second spring coupled between the element and the recorder, the second spring normally urging the element into a position against a tape cartridge when the cartridge is installed within the recorder.
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