Tape cartridge with movable guide member

Details Tape cartridge with movable guide member Tape cartridge with movable guide member

1976-04-28

1977-04-26

Christian, Leonard D.

Winding, tensioning, or guiding

Strand tensioning device

Tortuous course

352 72, G03B 104, G11B 1532

Patent

active

040196950

ABSTRACT:
An improved video tape cartridge having a main wall, two parallel sidewalls and two L-shaped doors hingedly connected to the main wall to form a rectangularly shaped box like structure for semipermanently enclosing two tape reels journaled therein. The tape reels include spring loaded bearing members that normally engage one of the housing sidewalls to journal the reels in the cartridge, but the bearing members are compressible into a condition disengaged from the sidewalls to release the reels from the cartridge. Guide members are disposed at each end of the cartridge to hold the tape in a position for engagement with a record/reproduce unit, at least one of which guide members is movable from a normal operating condition into a reel removal condition to facilitate removal of both reels from the cartridge.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3653608 (1972-04-01), Dickens et al.
patent: 3706426 (1972-12-01), Prahl
patent: 3894796 (1975-07-01), Cook et al.

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