Abstract:
The invention concerns dictation apparatus making use of disctype record media for the recording and reproducing of audio signals and particularly concerns mechanisms for effecting a desired standard amount of review of previously dictated material irrespective of the relative location of a sound transducer with respect to the disc. Customarily, in a disc-type apparatus, means are provided for relatively moving a transducer with respect to the disc media to trace a spiral sound track from the outer portion of the disc toward the inner portion. This may result in a variance in the amount of material that is reviewed during each operation of an associated review or backspace mechanism, and the present invention concerns itself with establishing a standardized increment of review in such apparatus.
Abstract:
A magnetic head, which has an erase gap and a record-playback gap, is movable in opposite directions across a recording medium and always has its erase gap positioned in advance of the recordplayback gap irrespective of the direction of movement of the head.