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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 1984
Filed:
Feb. 11, 1982
Shuji Yoshida, Warabi, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cassette loading apparatus, for example, for a video tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus (VTR), and having a cassette holder movable between a raised, cassette-receiving position in which a cassette can be slidably inserted therein, and a lowered or cassette-loading position in which the cassette contained in the holder is intended to be engaged, from above, with reel mounts and cassette positioning pins, is provided with a device for preventing movement of the cassette holder from the cassette-receiving position toward the cassette-loading position in the event that a cassette is not fully or accurately inserted in the holder, whereby to avoid damage to the cassette or to the reel mounts and cassette positioning pins that might result from the movement of the holder to its loading position with an incompletely inserted cassette therein.
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