Patent ID: 7448051

Claim:
A belt picker for a disk processing system comprising: a bed having a top surface and a bottom surface and a distal end; a belt passed over at least a portion of the top surface of the bed, around the distal end of the top surface, and over at least a portion of the bottom surface of the bed, the belt being coupled to a drive for moving the belt linearly along the bed; a pickup button secured to a first portion of the belt and moveable in a linear fashion with the belt between a first and a second position in which the pickup button is positioned on the bottom surface of the bed in its first position and is positioned on the upper surface of the bed in its second position, the pickup button being smaller than the diameter of the center hole of a disk; and, a pusher secured to a second portion of the belt and spaced apart from the pickup button by at least the radius of a disk at a position relative to the pickup button in the direction in which the pickup button moves from its first to its second position, the pusher being moveable in a linear fashion with the belt.