Video recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and record assembly for use therein
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorNobutoshi Kihara
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Abstract
An apparatus for recording and/or reproducing at least video signal information employs, as a record medium, a record assembly including a cover, for example, in the form of a relatively rigid envelope having an open end, and at least one flexible sheet adapted to have at least video signal information recorded thereon and slidable through the open end of the envelope between a stored position, in which the sheet is substantially enclosed and protected by the envelope, and an operative position in which a major portion of said sheet is withdrawn from the envelope and a minor portion of the sheet remains within the envelope.
Claims58
An apparatus for recording and/or reproducing at least video signal information comprising:
- a record assembly including cover means and at least one flexible sheet adapted to have at least video signal information recorded thereon and being movable in respect to said cover means between a stored position, in which said sheet is substantially enveloped and protected by said cover means, and an operative position in which a major portion of said sheet is withdrawn from said cover means and a minor portion of said sheet remains within said cover means;
- sheet driving means operative selectively for moving each said sheet relative to said cover means from said position to said operative position and for returning said sheet to said stored position from said operative position;
- rotary signal transducer means movable in at least one circular path about an axis substantially at right angles to the direction of movement of said sheet between said stored and operative positions;
- sheet guide means receiving each said sheet during the movement of the latter to said operative position and guiding said major portion of the sheet in an arcuate path substantially coinciding with at least a portion of said circular path of travel of said rotary signal transducer means;
- and translating means for moving said record assembly and said rotary signal transducer means relative to each other in directions parallel to said axis of rotation of the rotary signal transducer means to that the latter scan successive parallel record tracks on said major portion of said sheet in said arcuate path.
A record assembly comprising at least one substantially rectangular, flexible sheet adapted to have signal information recorded thereon, and a relatively rigid, substantially rectangular envelope having an open end through which said sheet is slidable between a stored position in which the sheet is substantially enclosed by said envelope and an operative position in which a major portion of said sheet extends out of said envelope and a minor portion of said sheet remains within said envelope, with the opposite side edges of said sheet being loosely guided by the adjacent sides of said envelope in the movement of said sheet between said stored and operative positions.
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