Tape deployment systems and methods of deploying tape in digital data transfer apparatus
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsHugo W Maule, Stephen Bodiley
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Abstract
A tape deployment system for a digital data transfer apparatus includes a tape guide movable from a non-deployed position to a plurality of deployed positions and a cam arrangement for determining the deployed position to which the tape guide moves.
Claims20
A tape deployment system for deploying tape from multiple size cartridges around a rotary scanning drum of a rotary scanning system of a digital data transfer apparatus, each size cartridge of said multiple size tape cartridges holding a magnetic tape having a width and the width of the tape held by each size of said multiple size tape cartridges being different to the width of tape held by the other sized cartridges of said multiple size tape cartridges, said tape deployment system comprising:
- a track having a first portion and a plurality of branch portions branching from said first portion;
- a tape guide movable along said track and provided with a first cam device;
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- a second cam device arranged to cooperate with said first cam device such that when, in use, said tape guide is moved from said first portion of the track towards said plurality of branches, the tape guide is guided into a predetermined said branch.
A tape deployment system for deploying tape in a digital data transfer apparatus, said tape deployment system comprising tape guide means movable from a non-deployed position to a plurality of deployed positions and cam means for determining the deployed position to which the tape guide means moves.
A method of guiding tape in a digital data transfer apparatus comprising a rotary scanning drum, said method comprising adjusting a cam device between a plurality of predetermined settings to cause a tape guide to be guided into a desired branch of a track along which the tape guide is movable from a non-deployed position to respective deployed positions defined by the branches whereby an angle of wrap of the tape about the rotary scanning drum is determined by the deployed position of the branch into which the tape guide is guided.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.