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US 4,902,186 AGranted
Disk guide for a disk handling system
AssigneeIntelmatec Corporation
InventorMinoru Akagawa
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Abstract
A disk guide is comprised of a pair of mutually parallel vertical grooves, a disk holder and a mechanism for moving the disk holder vertically. The grooves are formed on mutually opposite sidewalls such that a disk supported by the disk holder can be lifted vertically, supported and guided by the vertical grooves. The disk holder has a disk-supporting top surface which is sloped such that the disk supported thereon leans against a selected one of the vertical sidewalls and hence can be positioned accurately.
Claims3
A disk guide for lifting a disk accurately to a predetermined position, said disk guide comprising
- a pair of sidewalls having mutually parallel vertical V-shaped grooves which face each other and are separated from each other such that said disk can be supported thereby and can move vertically therealong,
- a disk holder means having a disk-supporting top surface, said top surface being sloped so as to cause a disk supported thereon to lean against one of said vertical sidewalls and against the base portion of one of the said U-shaped grooves, and
- lifting means for causing said disk holder means to move vertically.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.