CONTROLLED WORK PERFORMING APPARATUS HAVING CONTROL SYSTEM WITH RECORD MAKING CAPABILITY

摘要

Work performing apparatus whose cycle of operation is controlled by programmed control signals transcribed from magnetic tape. Two magnetic tape decks on the apparatus permit one recorded cycle of control signals which occupies less than the full capacity of one tape to be automatically recorded a plurality of times onto a tape on the second tape deck to fill the recording capacity of the second tape. The second full tape then may be used as a master tape to prepare another tape having successively occurring program cycles which fill the recording capacity of that tape. The two tapes having successively recorded program cycles are used in the respective tape decks which are operated alternately to cause the apparatus to perform successive cycles of operation without interruption.