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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1993
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1992
Masanori Maehara, Kanagawa, JP;
Eiji Ohshima, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshio Mamiya, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshio Kusui, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A tape cassette loading system for wrapping a magnetic tape about a magnetic rotary head drum of a recording and/or reproducing apparatus is provided. The loading system includes two tape guiding elements for withdrawing the tape from a tape cassette towards the rotary head drum and their tape guiding track members provided around the drum in order to define tape loading paths. One of the tape loading path slopes downwardly from a loading stand-by state position. The other tape loading path slopes upwardly from the loading stand-by state position. The movement of the two guiding elements traveling in their loading paths allows the tape to be wrapped helically about the drum. The height drum may therefore be reduced and the recording and/or reproducing apparatus can be made smaller.