TRANSDUCER CARRIAGE ASSEMBLY

A carriage assembly for holding a pair of transducers 150V in contact with the opposite sides of a flexible disk 20V includes a pair of arms 302, 304 each carrying one of the transducers. A nominally flat leaf spring has the three-fold function of (1) providing a yielding connection between the two arms so that the two arms end therefore the transducers may be swung apart about this connection, (2) yieldingly holding the arms together at their places of closest approachment at which the transducers are in contact with the opposite faces of the disk and (3) providing a yielding connection between a carriage support 300 and the arms as a unit when in their closest approachment so that the arms and therefor the transducers may pivot with respect to the carriage with low frequency undulations of the surface of the disk. The transducers are each carried with respect to one of the arms by means of a normally flat gimbal spring 330 which flexes to hold the transducers in proper pressure contact with the disk and serves to absorb high frequency undulations of the disk surface.