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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 1984
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1982
Masanori Kimizuka, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshio Yamanishi, Yokohama, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An improved tape cassette which can be automatically loaded into a tape recording and playback machine by moving it in a horizontal plane and in which the cassette includes pinch rollers and a pair of face gears with radially extending teeth for engagement with movable mating face gears with radially extending teeth to drive the take-up reels and wherein capstan engaging concave portions are formed in alignment with the pinch rollers in the surface of the cassette and with a plurality of head inserting openings formed in a front face of the cassette. Capstans are receivable in the capstan engaging openings so that the pinch rollers will press the tape against the capstan for driving it and the various heads are engageable with the tape through the openings formed in the front surface of the cassette.