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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 1989
Filed:
May. 12, 1988
Toshihiro Watanabe, Miyagi, JP;
Shiro Fujiwara, Miyagi, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In an apparatus for smoothly winding a magnetic tape on reels of a tape cassette; the cassette is positioned in a holder and has a leader tape wound, at its ends, on the cassette reels, and being withdrawn from the cassette housing by a pair of guide rollers movable away from the cassette in the holder, a splicing device severs the withdrawn leader tape and connects one end of the severed leader tape to an end of a magnetic tape from an external source, and a winding smoothing element, for example, in the form of a roller, is moved into contact with a tape winding face of one of the reels and with successive turns of the magnetic tape wound on such face as that one reel is driven so that the magnetic tape is regularly and smoothly wound on the reel and looseness of the wound tape is avoided.