Cleaning device for discs
AssigneeStaar S. A.
InventorStephane d'Alayer de Costemore d'Arc
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Abstract
A disc or record cleaning device especially for laser-read discs having digital recordings is provided in a disc storage container and incorporates a cleaning member with which the disc or record is brought into contact so as to clean the disc by a relative movement with respect to the cleaning member. The cleaning member is a fibrous pad and is either fixed and the disc rotated or the disc is held stationary and the cleaning pad rotated or translated. The storage container is provided by sections movable relative to one another, either articulated about a common pivot or translatable. The relative movement of the sections is coupled to move the disc and cleaning member relatively for cleaning the disc.
Claims21
A cleaning device for discs or records having a center hole comprising, in combination, a disc storage container including a pair of box-halves providing a bottom section and a lid section, a support carried by and providing a support surface within said bottom section of said storage container, a cleaning member on said support surface within said bottom section adapted to engage the face of a disc placed on said cleaning member, and means carried by said bottom section of said storage container comprising a mandrel for engaging the periphery of the center hole of a disc placed on said member, said support and said mandrel being carried within said bottom section of said container for relative rotational movement, and said mandrel providing means for holding said disc in contact with said cleaning member while said disc and cleaning member are rotated relative to one another for cleaning the entire face of the disc by said cleaning member.
A cleaning device for discs or records comprising, in combination, a disc storage container including a pair of relatively movable sections, a support providing a support surface in said storage container, a cleaning member on said support surface, means engaging a disc for holding said disc in contact with said cleaning member, said cleaning member and said disc being relatively movable, and means coupling said sections to produce relative movement of the cleaning member and the disc for cleaning the disc upon relative movement of said sections.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.