JPH01149257A - Video floppy automatic insertion/removal device - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic video floppy insertion/removal device for dubbing or reproducing a plurality of video floppies continuously without manual intervention.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, automatic insertion/removal devices of this type have a pocket for each video floppy, and are configured so that searching can be performed by specifying the pocket number. Therefore, video floppies can be inserted and removed one by one in sequence, or inserted and removed at will.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, since the main purpose of the conventional automatic insertion/removal device is automatic search, it is necessary to specify the video floppy number for each disk, and the video floppies must also be inserted one by one. There was an unavoidable sense of bother. Furthermore, since the device requires one pocket for each video floppy, the device itself is large, complex, and expensive, and the number of disks that can be inserted and removed is also limited by the size of the device. It was something to put away. The present invention solves these conventional problems, and provides an excellent video system that allows multiple video floppies to be installed at once, is low cost, and does not limit the number of video floppies that can be inserted or removed depending on the size of the device. The purpose of this invention is to provide an automatic floppy insertion/removal device.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a hopper so that video floppies can be directly stacked and loaded, thereby eliminating the troublesome loading process and reducing costs.

One motor is used to feed the video floppy recorder, one plunger is used to take it out of the video floppy recorder, one motor and one plunger are used to take it out, and one plunger is used to send it into the stacker in order. This is done by sequentially rotating the motor and energizing the plunger.

In addition, the video floppies that are taken out can be dropped onto the stacker by their own weight and arranged in an orderly manner. In addition, to increase the number of sheets that can be inserted and removed, it is sufficient to simply change the lengths of the hopper and stacker, and is completely unrelated to the size of the device.

Therefore, according to the present invention, by using a hopper, many video floppies can be loaded at once,
Cost reduction can be achieved. Furthermore, simply by changing the lengths of the hopper and stacker, the number of video floppies that can be inserted can be increased regardless of the size of the device. Furthermore, a simple mechanism using two motors and three plungers as a driving source makes it possible to achieve low cost and high reliability of the device.

Embodiment FIGS. 1 to 8 show the structure of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a top view of the automatic video floppy insertion/removal device of the present invention, in which 1 is a video floppy recorder section, 2.2
/ is its mounting plate, 3 is an automatic insertion/extraction unit (hereinafter referred to as autochanger), and Figure 2 is a side view of the automatic insertion/extraction device.
4 is the auto change 10 installed on the video floppy recorder. A2 horn 7-L 7-r7 z
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3 to 7 show the structure of an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 3, 8 is a motor for feeding the video floppy, 9 is a feeding disk thereof, and the video floppy feeding motor 8 and the feeding disk 9 are a slip mechanism for escaping excessive torque of the video floppy feeding arm 10. 11. The feeding arm 10 is connected to the chassis 12
It is fixed by a caulking stud or a screw stopper 13.

In addition, in FIG. 4, the feeding arm 10 has a pin 13.
It operates from position A to position B in conjunction with the guide pin 14 which is crimped to the feeding disk 9 with the fulcrum being the fulcrum. The feeding arm 10 transmits torque to a guide pin 16 that is press-fitted or screwed into the bushing plate 15. 17.
18 is a guide rail of the bushing plate 15. The bushing plate 15 inserts the video floppies 6 stacked in the hopper 5 in Fig. 2 into the video floppy recorder 1 one by one.
1 r (m91M port 'IZK ff V' - operates, detects one revolution of the feeding disk 9, and generates a signal to stop the rotation. Now, one video floppy 6 is transferred to the video floppy recorder 1. When inserted, the microswitch 21 is activated and dubbing or playback is started.When dubbing or playback is finished, the plunger 2 receives the signal.
2 is excited, and the inserted video floppy 6 is taken out from the video floppy recorder 1. In addition, in FIG. 5, when dubbing or playback is completed, the motor 23
makes a half turn and moves the video floppy eject arm 24 from position C to position C. FIG. 6 explains the operating state of the video floppy take-out arm 24 in FIG.
The micro switch 28 is for detecting one half rotation of the disk 27. Now, returning to Figure 4 again,
The guide pin 29 is attached to the disc 27 by caulking, and is used to operate the microswitches 25 and 28. The moving plate 30 moves the arm 24 and is interlocked with a guide bin 29 attached to the disc 27 by caulking. The shaft 31 is a guide shaft for the arm 24 and the moving plate 30, and 32 and 33 are shaft bearings thereof. Now, when a half rotation of the disk 27 is detected by the microswitch 25, the plunger 34 is energized and the arm 24 moves to position -E. Next, when the arm 24 returns from position E to its original position, the microswitch 28 is actuated and the plunger 22
stops excitation, and the arm 24 also returns from position C to position C.

Video floppy 6 pickup bin 35 is arm 2
It is attached to the tip of the video floppy 6 by caulking it so that it can be inserted into the draw-out hole of the video floppy 6 and pulled out. In addition, in order to securely insert the pickup bin 35 into the pull-out hole of the video floppy disk 6,
4 overlaps in position E and lowers the arm 24 to position D (shown in FIG. 5). Next, in FIG. 7, when the microswitch 28 (shown in FIG. 6) detects one rotation of the disk 27 and is activated, the plunger 36 is energized and the separator 37 is tilted.
The video floppy 6 in the stacker 7 is stored in the stacker 7 through the slide table 38 by gravity. FIG. 8 shows a time chart of the operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Effects of the Invention As is clear from the above embodiments, when the present invention is used in combination with a video floppy recorder, a plurality of video floppies stacked in a hopper can be automatically inserted into and removed from the video floppy recorder one by one, and the removed video It has a stacker that stores floppy disks one by one. Since multiple video floppies can be loaded into the hopper at once, there is no need to worry about operations, and continuous dubbing, continuous playback, and continuous erasing of video floppies can be done automatically without any manual intervention. . Therefore, great effects can be obtained when creating teaching materials in schools and the like. In addition, the mechanism uses two motors and three plungers intermittently and is a simple mechanism, so it is highly reliable and can reduce costs.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1 and 2 are external views of an automatic bidet floppy insertion/removal device according to an embodiment of the present invention, with FIG. 1 being a top view and FIG. 2 being a side view. Figures 3 to 7 are configuration diagrams of the autochanger, and Figures 3, 5, and 7 are schematic diagrams of the internal tank 1, video floppy recorder, 2, 2, and 2, as seen from the side. Recorder mounting plate, 3...Autochanger, 4...Mounting stand, 5...Hopper, 6...
・Video floppy, 7... Stacker, 8... Feeding motor, 9... Feeding disk, 10... Feeding arm, 11... Slip mechanism, 12... Chassis,
13... Stopping bin, 14... Guide bin, 15...
・Bush plate, 16...Guide bin, 17.1
8... Guide rail, 19... Micro switch,
20... Bottle, 21... Micro switch, 22.
...Plunger, 23...Motor, 24...Arm, 25.28...Micro switch, 26...Slip mechanism, 27...Disc, 29...Guide bin, 3
0...Moving plate, 31...Shaft, 32.33...
- Shaft bearing, 34...Plunger, 35...Pickup bin, 36...Plunger, 37...Separator, 38...Sliding table. Name of agent: Patent attorney Toshio Nakao and one other person Figure 1 Figure 3 Figure 5 Figure 7

Claims (1)

[Claims] It has two motors and three plungers, and by rotating the first motor, a plurality of video floppies loaded in a hopper are automatically inserted one by one into a video floppy recorder, and the first plunger is energized. automatically removes the video floppy from the video floppy recorder, rotates the second motor and energizes the second plunger to pull out the video floppy, and energizes the third plunger to remove the video floppy from the stacker. An automatic video floppy insertion/ejection device that lines up one video floppy in an orderly manner.