Appeal No. 1997-3980
Application 08/253,887
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A disk player for storing disks, each having a spindle hole, and playing a
selected disk of the disks, comprising:
a magazine having holding means for holding disks;
a playback position;
means for reading said selected disk, of said disks, when said selected disk is
moved to said playback position;
means for transporting said selected disk between said playback position and a
store position within said magazine;
a first shaft extending into said magazine, through said spindle hole of at least one
of said disks in said magazine and having an end in said magazine at a first position;
a second shaft extending into said magazine, coaxially aligned with and opposing
said first shaft;
said second shaft extending through said spindle hole of at least another of said
disks held in said magazine and having an end in said magazine at a second position; and
said first and second position defining a gap, aligned in a common plane with said
playback position, said selected disk passing through said gap when said means for
transporting said selected disk transports said selected disk between said store position
in said magazine and said playback position.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Noguchi et al. (Noguchi) 5,210,728 May 11, 1993
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