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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 1988
Filed:
Apr. 11, 1986
Hirokazu Miyao, Koganei, JP;
Hiroshi Ohkubo, Fussa, JP;
Teac Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cleaning cassette for use in cleaning, with a cleaning stick having a body of cotton or like absorbent material on one end thereof, the magnetic transducer head of an apparatus for data transfer with a magnetic tape cassette. The cleaning cassette has a casing shaped and sized like the tape cassette so as to be loaded in and unloaded from the apparatus through its entrance in the same way as the tape cassette. The cleaning cassette casing has one or more apertures defined in its front side, and a guide passageway for the cleaning stick extends along the front side of the casing. The guide passageway has an entrance end which, when the cleaning cassette is loaded in position in the appearance, is open to the entrance slot of the apparatus. Thus, following the loading of the cleaning cassette in the apparatus, the cleaning stick may be inserted in the guide passageway through the entrance slot of the apparatus and the entrance end of the guide passageway for cleaning the data transfer surface of the transducer head through one of the apertures in the casing.