Abstract:
In a high speed magnetic tape duplicating system, a single master tape (21) is wound around a transfer drum (7) rotatable about a fixed axis. Longitudinal sections of two copy tapes (31A and 31B) are preferably urged against different sections of the master tape (21) as it contacts the transfer drum (7) using an air clamp, and bias field magnetic transfer heads (6A and 6B) are used to carry out anhysteretic transfer from the master to the copy tapes. The transfer heads (6A and 6B), mounted on translatable deck plates (5A and 5B), may be retracted away from the transfer drum (7) along with the master and copy tapes to facilitate threading, rewinding, and automatic transfer drum cleaning with a plurality of rollers. The method of the invention includes steps whereby the master tape may be automatically threaded to accommodate both shuttle and bin-loop modes of operation and to detect damage to the master tape and halt further duplicating.
Abstract:
A method of and apparatus for recording information from a master medium onto a slave medium. In one embodiment, digital information on a master medium is reproduced and stored at a first rate, typically at real time, in a first high speed digital storage device such as a magnetic disk drive. The digital information stored in the first storage device, when needed, is transferred at a second rate, much higher than the first, to a second digital storage device in which it is stored until it is scheduled for duplication, at which time the digital information is repeatedly played back at a third rate, much higher than the first rate and slower than the second rate, and is converted from digital information into analog information and applied to a duplicating device for recording the analog information onto a slave medium. Because the information stored in the first digital storage device is not directly used in production, the duplicating device can be duplicating information previously transferred from the first storage device to the second at the same time information is being reproduced from a master medium and loaded, in real time, into the first storage device.
Abstract:
A conventional video recorder has a top plate (2) mounting a tape supply spool (22) and tape take-up spool (22a) upon a common shaft (19). A recording assembly (6) has a conventional video recording drum and combines with a master cassette holder (4) to complete a cassette recording station. A roller system guides the tape from the supply spool (22) through the recording station to the take-up spool (22a). Stepper motors (3) provide rim drive to the spools (22) and (22a) and vacuum troughs (8 and 9) and associated photoelectric devices provide for speed control of the tape transport functions as a whole to ensure that tape is conveyed at a uniform speed without slack.
Abstract:
A method of magnetically transferring and recording information signals such as audio or video signals onto a magnetic layer (5) of a magnetic recording medium (4), which method comprises the steps of bringing the surface of the magnetic layer (5) of the magnetic recording medium (4) into contact with the surface of another magnetic layer (2), on which the information signal has been recorded in an uneven mode, of a master recording medium (1), and applying a magnetic field to the master recording medium (1) and the magnetic recording medium (4). In this method, the information signal is capable of being recorded on the magnetic layer (2) of the master recording medium (1) to a highly dense degree in the uneven mode.