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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 1983
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1980
Eiichi Tsuchiya, Yokohama, JP;
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A tape cassette loading device in a magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus comprises a cassette holder movable up and down for receiving and holding a tape cassette, a driving source for operating in rotation in response to the detection of the partial insertion of the tape cassette in horizontal direction into the cassette holder, a drawing mechanism for drawing the partially inserted tape cassette into a predetermined position within the cassette holder by the transmitted rotational driving force from the driving source, and tape cassette loading mechanism for lowering the cassette holder with the tape cassette received and held therein by the driving force transmitted from the driving source when the tape cassette is drawn into a predetermined position in the cassette holder, and for loading the tape cassette to a predetermined loading position in the magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus.