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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1976
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1974
Nobuo Suzuki, Sagamihara, JA;
Technical Incorporated, , JA;
Abstract
A magnetic tape machine wherein the switch-over operations of the machine are driven by the tape driving mechanism so as to allow a single drive motor to drive the tape as well as to provide power for switch-over operations. A starting plate is pivotally attached to the tape machine and a moving plate is mounted adjacent the starting plate with a first gear rotatably mounted on the tape machine and having a pair of cutout portions displaced 180.degree. from each other and a second gear and capstan driven by the main motor with the second gear engageable with the first gear to drive it 180.degree. each time the first and second gears engage such that the various plates, gears and idlers allow the single drive motor to drive the tape as well as to provide power for switch over operations.