Patent ID: 7165685
Filing Date: 2007-01-23
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for protecting data tape cartridges, said apparatus comprising: a frame having an interior defined by a front, a rear, a top, a bottom, and a pair of side walls; a plurality of partitions located in and mounted to the interior of the frame in a parallel configuration, each of the partitions defining a pair of adjacent, parallel slots inside the frame, each of the slots having a top, a bottom, and a pair of side walls adapted to engage and retain a data tape cartridge therein through the front of the frame in order to isolate the data tape cartridges from each other, wherein the top, the bottom, and the pair of side walls for each of the slots are corrugated; a rear opening formed in the rear of the frame adapted to provide simultaneous access to all of the data tape cartridges in the slots and, if desired, for allowing a force to be applied simultaneously to all of the data tape cartridges to push all of the data tape cartridges out of the front of the frame at the same time; and a plurality of apertures formed in the frame, each of the apertures registering with one of the slots and adapted to provide access to a respective one of the data tape cartridges for inspecting said respective one of the data tape cartridges.