Patent ID: 6943975

Claim:
An automatic library for cartridges of data storage tapes, comprising: a drive for cartridges having the form of a flat right parallelepiped having a flat side, said drive having a cartridge pocket adapted to receive said cartridges; and a magazine, said magazine comprising one or more receivers for said cartridges, said receivers being adapted to revolve on a closed path of revolution around the drive, wherein said cartridge pocket of the drive and the receivers of the magazine are disposed such that the magazine is positionable with one of said receivers being aligned with the cartridge pocket along an insertion axis for transfer of a cartridge, wherein the cartridges are adapted to be disposed in the receivers of the magazine and in the cartridge pocket of the drive with said flat side lying flat in a plane of the path of revolution wherein the receivers of the magazine comprise carriers adapted to contain cartridges, said carriers being adapted to be moved on the path of revolution by a continuously revolving driving means and are guided on their underside in a guide defining the path of revolution.