Patent ID: 7145841

Claim:
A system for the duplication of data onto compact disks, the system comprising: a copy unit, comprising: multiple disk devices having extendible disk trays, wherein at least one of the disk devices is a recordable disk drive; a transport tower; at least one disk retainer member, arranged in an arcuate pattern around the transport tower with any extended one of the extendible disk trays, wherein the disk retainer member is constructed to maintain the order of a stack of compact disks placed in the disk retainer member for copy operations; an arm, operably connected to the transport tower wherein the transport tower has a vertical axis and the arm is pivotal about the vertical axis of the transport tower, the arm having a disk engagement and lift mechanism that cooperates with the transport tower to engage, lift and pivot disks placed in the disk retainer member to an extendible disk tray of any selected one of the multiple disk devices, wherein the arm, the disk engagement and lift mechanism, and the transport tower also cooperate to engage, lift and pivot disks located in any one of the extendible disk trays of the multiple disk devices to any one of the extendible tray of another of the disk devices having extendible disk trays and another of the disk retainer members.