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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 1990
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1988
Niro Nakamichi, South Laguna, CA (US);
Nakamichi Corporation, Kodaira, JP;
Abstract
A magnetic tape is withdrawn from a tape cassette, wound partly around a rotatable drum with transducer heads through a predetermined wrap angle, and fed along for recording signals on and reproducing signals from the tape with the transducer heads. A pair of skew blocks is fixedly disposed laterally of and near the rotatable drum. When a pair of vertical guide rollers is moved from within a recess defined in the tape cassette to a position near the skew blocks, the vertical guide rollers withdraw the magnetic tape from the tape cassette and hold the magnetic tape against the rotatable drum and the skew blocks. The magnetic tape extending between the skew blocks is skewed by the skew blocks to allow the transducer heads to scan the magnetic tape at a prescribed skew angle.