Automatic tape winding machine
AssigneeDecca Limited
InventorScott J. C. Morgan
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Abstract
An automatic tape winder in which a splicer includes a tape applicator which includes a holder which moves back and forth along a length of splicing tape, holding it by vacuum suction to draw it from a stock and passing it via a cutter to a punch which holds it by vacuum suction. Also described is an extractor which blows leader tape from a cassette to a clasp which draws the leader over a splicing block.
Claims5
In an automatic tape-winding machine in which a loop of leader tape is extracted from a cassette to a splicing block for joinder to a magnetic tape which is wound into the cassette, the combination with said splicing block of an applicator of splicing tape, which applicator comprises:
- (a) means for providing a stock of splicing tape;
- (b) a reciprocable holder mounted for movement back and forth lengthwise of said splicing tape, said holder including means for holding said splicing tape by vacuum suction while said holder moves to draw splicing tape from said stock;
- (c) a punch for holding said splicing tape by vacuum suction and applying said splicing tape to said magnetic tape;
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- (d) a cutter disposed to sever splicing tape between the holder and the punch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.