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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 1983
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Charles D Gebeke, White Bear Lake, MN (US);
Assignee:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ; G11B / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
242199 ; 226195 ;
Abstract
An improved cassette having a flexible resilient slack limiter tab installed in a housing of the cassette without the use of adhesive. The slack limiter tab includes a tape contact end portion and a tapered projection. The housing of the cassette comprises rigid walls defining a receptacle which frictionally receives and compressively holds the tapered projection with the contact end portion biased into engagement with tape of the cassette to press the tape against a support surface of the housing to limit slack in the tape.