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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1979
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1977
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a cassette and card recording and/or reproducing apparatus; a housing is provided to receive a cassette with a run of the magnetic tape therein being coincident with a recording medium transport path, or to guide a card having a magnetic stripe affixed thereto so as to be disposed in said transport path, a head carriage is movable normal to the transport path and carries a magnetic head engageable with the magnetic tape or stripe in the transport path when the carriage is moved to an operative position, a pinch roller is mounted on the head carriage and cooperates with a rotated capstan for driving either the tape or card therebetween in the transport path upon movement of the carriage to its operative position, a tape guide member is urged to project into the transport path for guiding a tape in such path relative to the head in response to movement of the carriage to its operative position in the cassette mode of operation of the apparatus, and a mode change-over mechanism is selectively actuable for establishing the cassette mode of operation or the card mode of operation and includes a member which blocks the projection of the tape guide member into the transport path when the carriage is moved to its operative position in the card mode of operation.