DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC CONNECTION OF DIFFERENT INFORMATION MEDIA TO ASSEMBLIES FOR RECORDING AND READING INFORMATION Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: information processing and computer engineering. SUBSTANCE: different information carriers are located in cassettes, as well as without cassettes, and are arranged in multiple-stage multiple-level interconnected system of rotating boards for interaction with several different assemblies for recording and reading information. Information carriers are located on rotation platforms of first level radius R1 in cassettes. In addition to information carriers, several rotation boards of first level radius R1 and cassettes are mounted on rotation board of second level radius R2 and so on ad infinitum. Connection to different assemblies for recording and reading information is achieved by mounting information carriers along radial cylindrical guides for cassettes which inner surfaces provides automatic actuating mechanisms which consist of two parallel steel rods which are mounted in radial resting bearing and are connected to driving shaft of electric motor by gear. One rod carries right-hand threaded joint, second rod carries left-hand threaded joint in order to provide movement of nuts over rods. One nut goes up another one down and have holes for direction rods and are connected to ends of beams by means of pin joints. Their opposite ends are connected by means of pin joints to ends of steel lathe for removing information carriers from cassette. EFFECT: multilevel design of system provides increased number of information carriers types and types of assemblies for recording and reading information, so that total number of carriers is beyond practical limits. 3 dwg