| 摘要 |
An endless loop tape storage apparatus comprising a horizontally disposed storage receptacle in which the bulk of the tape loop forms into serpentine folds. The tape is moved into the receptacle by opposed relatively high velocity, low volume air jets adjacent an entrance slot and the accumulation of tape folds in maintained fluid in the main storage region of the receptacle by opposed, rearwardly directed relatively low velocity high volume air jets acting in concert with opposed relatively low velocity high volume air jets directed on the tape in a rearward discharge region adjacent an exit slot, a portion of the latter jets being directed forwardly to keep the collapsing folds of tape forward of the discharge throat region. Air exhaust apertures are provided in at least one of the top and bottom plates of the receptacle in the main storage region thereof so that air freely exhausts therefrom. The withdrawn tape is driven by return thereof to a conventional capstan drive tape deck or the like and the capstan drive is the sole mechanical driving force applied to the tape loop.
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