Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yoshiro Yano

Yuji Nakamura

Takehisa Takamiya

A magnetic recording and reproducing device comprises a capstan rotatable at a constant speed, a rotatable roller, a pair of pinch rollers disposed symmetrically about the bisector or perpendicular erected at the mid-point of the line connecting the centers of the capstan and roller and movable toward the capstan from the opposite direction to be pressed against the same, a head block disposed between the capstan and roller and including a plurality of heads, the capstan and one of the pinch rollers providing first tape transport or drive means while the capstan and the other pinch roller, a second tape transport means being directed toward the roller at which the tape is redirected to be fed to the second tape transport means, the tape being made into contact with the heads of the head block between the first and second film transport means, and the speed of tape imparted thereto by the first tape transport means being slower than the speed of tape imparted thereto by the second tape transport means.

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Moriguchi, Japan

Yoshiro Yano