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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 1984
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1983
Hideo Shirako, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Optical Company Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A casing for receiving a cassette is including a casing body for receiving a tape cassette, the casing body having a rectangular opening, a lid member attached to the minor side of the opening and capable of being opened and closed, and a pair of engaging members provided to the lid and arranged at the same plane as the opening and closing direction of the lid and for regulating the position of reel hubs which are rotatably mounted to the cassette. The engaging member has a slanted portion provided at the opposite position of the tip thereof and for making the central axis of the reel hub eccentric, and a notched portion provided at the opposite position to the slanted portion and for preventing engagement to projections which are formed at the inner peripheral surface of the reel hub.