Mechanical gripper/adapter for use within a data cartridge library

摘要

A fully mechanical gripper for grasping and releasing data cassette cartridges is disclosed. The gripper may be built into a robotic picker, or may be implemented as an adapter to be fitted to an existing robotic picker. When used as an adapter, the present invention provides the added functionality of allowing a single robotic picker to carry different sized tapes by connecting and disconnecting itself to the adapter.