Tape recording system
OwnerHill Brown, Jack M. Pippininventors
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Abstract
A tape reproducing and recording system for recording selected pieces from a bank of recorded material having a system for selecting desired pieces of recorded material from a bank of recorded material and a memory for storing the selections made. A scanning or retrieval system is coupled to the memory and to a tape reproducing system having the bank of recorded material coupled thereto for locating the selected pieces in the bank of recorded material and reproducing the selected pieces. A recorder then records the selected pieces in the order they were reproduced whereby recordings can be made having only preselected recorded pieces thereon.
Claims7
A tape recording system comprising in combination:
- input means for indicating selections of predetermined pieces of recorded material from a bank of recorded material;
- memory means for storing said selections from said input means;
- reproducing means having a blank of pre-recorded material located thereon in a predetermined sequence;
- scanning means coupled to said input means memory means and to said reproducing means for locating each selected recording piece from said pre-recorded material located on said reproducing means for reproduction by said reproducing means responsive to selections made in said input means, said scanning means scanning through a predetermined cycle to retrieve each selected piece and returning to a rest position, said scanning means being an electromechanical scanner retriever having a moving member scanning a plurality of contacts and selecting each contact having a voltage thereon;
- recording means coupled to said reproducing means for recording each selected recorded piece played by said reproducing means;
- control means coupled between said scanning means and said reproducing means for controlling said recording and reproducing means responsive to said scanning means reaching a selected piece to be recorded whereby a recording can be made having only preselected pieces from a bank of pre-recorded material;
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- a monitor operatively connected to said reproducing means for reproducing the material being recorded during the recording.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.