Claims
- 1. Transducing and drive means for record tape provided in cartridges comprising in combination:
- a support,
- a magazine containing an elongated flexible strip of record bearing material,
- supply and take-up means for said flexible strip including first and second reels supported for rotation within said magazine and means for guiding said flexible strip between said first and second reels,
- said magazine having walls surrounding said first and second reels,
- an opening in a wall of said magazine to permit access to said elongated flexible record strip,
- means for predeterminately supporting said magazine on said support,
- transducing and drive means supported for movement adjacent said magazine when said magazine is predeterminately supported on said support,
- first and second coupling means supported by said support and movable after a magazine has been predeterminately located on said support to effect driving coupling with said first and second reels of said magazine,
- separately operable motor means for driving said first and second coupling means,
- a transducer movably supported by said support and movable thereon into opertive relation with a section of said flexible strip exposed to the exterior of said magazine through said opening to permit the transducer to transduce signals with respect to said strip,
- third coupling means coupleable to a portion of said tape located between said first and second reels for engaging said tape,
- first motor means for operating said first coupling means to drive said reel for taking up the tape thereon,
- second motor means for operating said second coupling means to drive said second reel for taking up the tape thereon,
- third motor means for operating said third coupling means,
- said third motor means being reversibly operable to operate said third coupling means in driving said record strip from either said first or said second reel means.
- 2. Transducing apparatus in accordance with claim 1 including control means for controlling the operations of said first, said second and said third motor means after coupling has been effected between said first coupling means and said first reel means, said second coupling means and said second reel means and said third coupling means and said tape for continuously operating either, said first and third motor means or said second and third motor means to cause tape driven by said third motor means to be taken up by the reel of said magazine disposed on the take-up side of said third coupling means.
- 3. An apparatus in accordance with claim 2 wherein said first and second coupling means are coupleable directly to said first and second reels.
- 4. An apparatus in accordance with claim 2 wherein each of said reels contains a hub, each of said hubs being rotatably supported by respective side wall portions of the magazine and each of said hubs contain coupling means operable to be engaged by respective of said first and second coupling.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
This is a continuation of Application Ser. No. 521,028 filed Nov. 5, 1974, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,970,775, which was a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 295,807 filed Oct. 10, 1972, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,881,053 entitled Scanning System, a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 224,131 filed Feb. 7, 1972, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,699,266, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 142,748 filed Aug. 28, 1961, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,646,258 which was a division of Ser. No. 515,417 filed June 14, 1955, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,003,119.
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