LOADING AND UNLOADING MECHANISM FOR FLEXIBLE MAGNETIC DISKS

摘要

LOADING AND UNLOADING MECHANISM FOR FLEXIBLE MAGNETIC DISKS Mechanism for loading and unloading flexible disks contained in protective envelopes into and from a data recording and reading device for the disks which holds the disks vertically between a drive element and an arbor rotatable on horizontal axes. The mechanism comprises a bin located on top of the recording and reading unit and having a hopper section and a stacker section. Rotatable pick and feed rolls feed a disk in its protective envelope out of the hopper section and downwardly into the recording and reading unit; and, after information has been either read from or recorded on the disk, vertically movable lifter fingers move the disk and protective envelope upwardly to the feed roll which transfers the disk in its envelope into the stacker section of the bin.