Tape cassette

Details Tape cassette Tape cassette

1982-07-01

1984-05-01

Christian, Leonard D.

Winding, tensioning, or guiding

Strand tensioning device

Tortuous course

242200, G03B 104, G11B 1532, G11B 2304

Patent

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044456514

ABSTRACT:
An improved tape cassette which can be automatically loaded into a tape recording and playback machine by moving it in a horizontal plane and in which the cassette includes pinch rollers and a pair of face gears with radially extending teeth for engagement with movable mating face gears with radially extending teeth to drive the take-up reels and wherein capstan engaging concave portions are formed in alignment with the pinch rollers in the surface of the cassette and with a plurality of head inserting openings formed in a front face of the cassette. Capstans are receivable in the capstan engaging openings so that the pinch rollers will press the tape against the capstan for driving it and the various heads are engageable with the tape through the openings formed in the front surface of the cassette.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3367593 (1968-02-01), Grant
patent: 3408017 (1968-10-01), Hashimoto
patent: 3865331 (1975-02-01), Clever et al.
patent: 4022401 (1977-05-01), Kishi

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