Disc storage and transfer apparatus
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United States of America Patent
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Sep 21, 1999
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N/A
app pub date -
May 16, 1997
filing date -
Jun 5, 1996
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Expired
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Abstract
A housing with one or more compartments for storage of discs, and a disc transfer mechanism mounted in each compartment including a mobile disc support mounted for rolling movement between inside and outside the compartment to transfer a disc in a transfer plane extending through the compartment, between a position wherein the disc is located entirely within the compartment and a position wherein a portion of the disc or the entire disc is located outside the compartment in front of a front wall, the mobile disc support including a disc support member which has elements locating or holding the disc relative to the disc support member during disc transfer and a segment presenting a curved outer edge which is maintained in rolling contact with an inner edge of a lateral member carried on a side wall of the compartment as the mobile disc support rolls without sliding to transfer a disc between its positions. The disc transfer mechanism can be combined with a disc player or recorder apparatus.
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