Dual speed tape drive system for an endless loop dictating and transcribing system
CA 1061460 A · Owner: Dictaphone Corporation · Inventors: Whitney, James C.
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A dual speed tape drive system for a dictating and transcribing system is provided with means for recording and transcribing and including a single-bin random-wind tape, storage magazine to store an endless loop of magnetic tape in random folds. The tape is drawn from the magazine at one side passed over the top of the apparatus, back into the magazine and out of the magazine where it may be stored in random-wound folds until a transcribe station is activated to draw the tape from the magazine through the transcribe station and back into the magazine where it is stored awaiting further dictation. Both the dictate-playback station and the transcribe station are provided with bidirectional …
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- Granted August 28, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended August 28, 1996.
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