U.S. Philips Corporation

Winfried Schafler

Franz Kletzl

Johannes Kaferbock

A recording and/or reproducing apparatus (1) for a record carrier (5) in tape form which extends between two adjacent hubs (3, 4). The apparatus has two winding spindles (9, 10) for driving the two hubs (3, 4), each of the winding spindles being connected in a rotationally fixed manner to a respective friction wheel (14, 15). A rotatable driving part (18) is rotatably mounted on a swivellable carrier (24) arranged centrally in relation to the two friction wheels (14, 15). The carrier (24) can be swivelled about two swivel bearings (41, 42) situated at a distance from one another, each of which is allocated to one friction wheel (14, 15). When the driving part (18) is in drive connection with one of the two friction wheels (14, 15), a plane (46) through the axis (43) of the driving part (18) and the axis (44, 45) of the swivel bearing (41, 42), allocated to the friction wheel (14, 15) concerned, of the carrier (24) extends essentially perpendicular to a plane (47) through the axis (43) of the driving part (18) and the axis (26, 27) of the friction wheel (14, 15) concerned.

Recording and reproducing apparatus for a record carrier in tape form

A recording and/or reproducing apparatus (1), for a record carrier (2) in tape form which extends between two rotatingly driveable hubs (4, 5), has two winding spindles (10, 11) for driving the hubs, each of the winding spindles being connected to one drive wheel (12, 13). For braking the two drive wheels (12, 13), a braking device (30) is provided which has a carrier (33) displaceable perpendicularly to a plane (34) through the axes (31, 32) of the two drive wheels (12, 13) and having two braking surfaces (39, 40) for the two drive wheels. The carrier (33) is of frame-shaped design and has two carrier portions (35, 36) passing through the plane (34) through the axes (31, 32) of the two drive wheels (12, 13), each of which carrier portions is arranged so as to run laterally along one of the two drive wheels (12, 13) outside the region between the two drive wheels (12, 13).

Magnetic tape apparatus having a compact reel-brake assembly

A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for a record carrier in tape form housed in a cassette has a cassette holder which can be swivelled between a load position and an operating position. In the load position, a cassette can be introduced as far as an introduction position in the cassette holder fixed by at least one limiting stop on the cassette holder. At least one pressure mechanism is arranged on a carrier which can swivel between an initial position and a working position and is coupled to the cassette holder. The swivel axis of the carrier is arranged offset parallel to the swivel axis of the cassette holder. The pressure mechanism comes into active connection during the swivelling of the carrier into its working position and of the cassette holder into its operating position, due to the mutual offset of the two swivel axes with a cassette introduced into the cassette holder and presses the cassette into its introduction position.

Recording and/or reproducing apparatus for a record carrier in tape form

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Korneuburg, Austria

Winfried Schafler