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Abstract

The subject information recording methods and apparatus are capable of handling either a recording medium strip wound on a supply roll with the information recording surface layer facing inwardly, or a recording medium strip wound on a supply roll with the information recording surface layer facing outwardly. In particular, a drive roller is mounted at a recording station and the recording medium strip is run from the particular supply roll about part of the drive roller with the information recording surface layer facing away from the drive roller at the recording station irrespective of the direction in which the recording surface layer faces on the supply roll. The drive roller is rotated at the recording station and the recording medium strip is driven from the supply roll through the recording station. Information is recorded on successive portions of the recording medium strip while each of these portions is located on the drive roller with its information recording surface layer facing away from the drive roller. The recording medium strip is either wound into a takeup roll or discharged from the recording apparatus. Methods and apparatus for supplying wound material from a roll of diminishing diameter, and methods and apparatus for releasably retaining any one of several tubular objects of different lengths are also disclosed.

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