Abstract:
Means for improving separation between a transducer operating surface and a moving record media. Nonuniform pressure distribution between the media and the operating surface produces a cocking tendency in the media increasing upstream separation and decreasing downstream separation over the processing zone in the transducer. This invention recognizes that the cocking tendency is caused by a region of lower than ambient pressure near the point where the media draws away from the operating surface, and provides means for supplying ambient pressure at that point. In a preferred embodiment, the means comprises a transverse slot extending beyond the side edges of the media.
Abstract:
An air bearing supports the magnetic recording tape of a magnetic tape unit as the tape moves in a curved path, the air bearing having a plenum chamber connected through an orifice to a high-pressure source of air, the pressure magnitude of the source being such that over the operating range of the bearing, the mass rate of air flow into the plenum chamber, and thus out of the bearing to support the tape, is substantially constant.
Abstract:
Punched card interpreter using fluid jets for sensing the presence of holes and controlling diaphragm valves and fluid pressure to decode the hole arrangement and operate a recording device.