Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Strand tensioning device – Tortuous course
Patent
1978-11-14
1980-06-03
Christian, Leonard D.
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Strand tensioning device
Tortuous course
G03B 104, G11B 1532
Patent
active
042058090
ABSTRACT:
A tape cassette comprising a housing, a pair of reels rotatably carried within the housing around which tape can be wound, an access opening for exposing a portion of the tape extending thereacross and between the reels to the exterior of the housing for engagement by a transducer assembly for recording and playing back information on the tape when the cassette is disposed within a tape player, and an assembly for biasing the tape portion in an outward direction with respect to the housing, such assembly comprising a pair of pads adjacent the access opening and spaced along the path of the tape extending across the opening and carried at or adjacent the ends of the arms of a bifurcated leaf spring mounted within the housing adjacent the access opening intermediate the pads such that said pads will resiliently bear on the tape to bias it as aforesaid.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3991956 (1976-11-01), Machida
patent: 4078742 (1978-03-01), Steipe
patent: 4102514 (1978-07-01), Ito
patent: 4131243 (1978-12-01), Machida
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