Direct access data storage

Claim 1

A DIRECT ACCESS DATA STORAGE, COMPRISING A BIN OF ANNULOIDAL CONFIGURATION HAVING A CENTRAL LONGITUDINAL CYLINDRICAL AXIS AND A MULTIPLE OF COMPARTMENTS ARRANGED RADIALLY OF SAID AXIS, MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID BIN CONTINUALLY ABOUT SAID AXIS IN A GIVEN DIRECTION, A MULTIPLE OF TUBULAR CELLS OF RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTION ARRANGED IN SAID COMPARTMENTS AND MAINTAINED THERE SUBSTANTIALLY BY CENTRIFUGAL FORCE, A PLURALITY OF RECORDS ARRANGED IN EACH CELL AND EACH CAPABLE OF BEARING INFORMATION OR DATA, EACH OF SAID CELLS BEARING MAGNETIC IDENTIFYING INDICIA, MEANS ARRANGED ADJACENT SAID ROTATING BIN FOR SENSING THE IDENTITY OF EACH CELL, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID SENSING MEANS FOR DRAWING A SELECTED CELL INWARDLY, EACH OF SAID CELLS HAVING AXIALLY ALIGNED PINS ON SAID INTERIOR FACING SURFACE, AN INTERRUPTED OVOID TRACK ASSEMBLY ARRANGED INTERNALLY OF SAID BIN TO ACCOMMODATE SAID PINS OF A CELL, MEANS ARRANGED INTERNALLY OF SAID BIN ADJACENT SAID TRACK ASSEMBLY AND ABOVE SAID CELL FOR READING FROM AND WRITING ON A SELECTED STRIP ARRANGED AT A HANDLING STATION, A STANDING STATION ALONG SAID TRACK PRIOR TO SAID TRANSLATING STATION, A SELECTED CELL BEING MOVED INTO SAID STANDING STATION BY THE ACTION OF TANGENTIAL FORCE AS THE CELL MOVES ALONG THE TRACK, A RESTING STATION BEYOND SAID TRANSLATING STATION ALONG SAID TRACK OF SAID TRACK ASSEMBLY, MEANS FOR ARRESTING SAID SELECTED CELL AT SAID STANDING STATION AND FOR MOVING IT INTO SAID TRANSLATING STATION AND SAID RESTING STATION, A CELL RESTORING ARM ASSEMBLY, PINS FOR ACTUATING SAID CELL RESTORING ARM ASSEMBLY ON SAID BIN AT EACH CELL LOCATION, MEANS FOR IDENTIFYING A CELL AT SAID RESTING STATION, MEANS FOR COMPARING THE IDENTITIES OF SAID CELL AT SAID RESTING STATION AND THE COMPARTMENT FROM WHICH THAT ALL WAS WITHDRAWN FOR SETTING SAID PINS ON SAID BIN CORRESPONDING TO SAID CELL TO BE RETURNED, SAID ARM HAVING A CAMMING SURFACE THEREON CONTACTING SAID PIN AND SERVING TO ACCELERATE THE ARM GRADUALLY FROM ZERO TO FULL BIN SPEED, SAID ARM HAVING ANOTHER CAMMING SURFACE GUIDING SAID CELL INTO ALIGNMENT WITH A COMPARTMENT OF SAID ROTATING BIN, AND SAID ARM HAVING A FURTHER CAMMING SURFACE FOR DROPING SAID PIN AND REMOVING THE DRIVING FORCE AS SAID CELL IS FORCED INTO SAID COMPARTMENT BY MOVEMENT OF THE BIN AND THE SHAPE OF SAID TRACK ASSEMBLY, SAID CELL BEING RETURNED TO ITS PLACE IN SAID BIN BY CENTRIFUGAL FORCE.