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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 1986
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1982
Eiichi Tsuchiya, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A video signal recording and/or reproducing apparatus comprising a guide drum comprising at least a single video signal recording and/or reproducing head, a supply reel and a take-up reel respectively fitted with a supply reel and a take-up reel of a tape cassette, tape loading mechanism for drawing out a tape from the tape cassette which is loaded and loading the tape unto a predetermined tape path so as to make contact with the guide drum throughout a predetermined range, a capstan rotatable in a forward direction, for causing the tape loaded by the tape loading mechanism in the forward direction along the predetermined tape path, tape feed back mechanism responsive to an interruption of a recording operation, for rotating the capstan in a reverse direction and rotating the supply reel disc in a tape take-up direction, to partially feed back the tape to the supply side along the predetermined tape path, and tape draw-out mechanism for rotating the take-up disc in a tape draw-out direction at a speed greater than a speed with which the tape is fed back by the tape feed back mechanism, during operation of the tape feed back mechanism. A tape slack in the tape path between the take-up reel and the capstan due to the tape drawn out from the take-up reel is fed back to the side of the supply reel.