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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 1979
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1977
Helmut Laufer, St. Georgen, DE;
Dual Gebruder Steidinger, St. Georgen, DE;
Abstract
A drive device for a tape recorder by which the recording tape is drawn off one spool by means of a capstan, and is wound-up on another spool, which is driven over a friction coupling by a motor with a speed not substantially above the highest required winding speed, with a drive device driven by the same motor, the drive device for the purpose of fast rewinding being selectively coupleable on one of the two spools. The two drive gears are arranged on a swingable carrier arm driven continuously in oppsite working directions by a stationarily arranged motor via a belt. By swinging the carrier arm in opposite operating directions out of a neutral center position, the drive gears are coupleable from time to time with one of the spool-carrying winding spindles for fast rewinding. One of the drive gears, which is coaxially seated over a friction clutch, is connected with another drive gear of smaller diameter, the latter in a neutral center position of the carrier arm being able to be brought into engagement with still another drive gear by means of an axial movement of one of these other drive gears, said still another drive gear being coaxially seated on the winding spindle which carries the spool which in the play-operation serves as the winding-up spool.