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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 1985
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1984
Hiroyuki Umeda, Yokohama, JP;
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A tape cassette loaded with respect to a recording and/or reproducing apparatus having a reel driving mechanism including at least one reel driving shaft comprises a cassette case, and a supply side reel and a take-up side reel provided within the cassette case, for winding a tape. One reel of the supply side and take-up side reels is constructed so that the reel driving shaft of the recording and/or reproducing apparatus is inserted into this one reel from a lower direction thereof to engage therewith when the tape cassette is loaded into the recording and/or reproducing apparatus, and driven at a center part of the one reel. The other reel of the supply side and take-up side reels is constructed so as to be transmitted of rotation by a rotation transmitting mechanism at a part other than a center part thereof and rotated.