Automatic library for housing cassettes and data storage tapes has a tape drive for cassettes with the shape of a flat rectangular parallelepiped and a magazine with numerous cassette holders to circulate around the drive on a track.

摘要

An automatic tape library has a tape drive (14) for cassettes and a magazine (18) with numerous holders (22) for cassettes. The magazine circulates on a circulatory track around the tape drive. The cassettes lie in the holders and in a cassette feeder for the tape drive with their flat side on a level with the magazine's circulatory track that is designed as out of round and takes the form of a right angle with rounded corners to produce a small width in the assembly.