CARTRIDGE AND TAPE STRETCH PLACEMENT WITH BREAKS FOR ONE OR BOTH REELS

摘要

In an apparatus for magnetically recording and/or reproducing signals on a magnetic tape which is wound on, and extends between a pair of reels preferably contained in a cassette, reel support and drive members are engageable with the reels for rotating a selected one of the reels in the direction to wind the tape thereon, a tape loading and unloading device is engageable with the tape between the reels and is selectively operable for loading the tape on a cylindrical guide drum, that is, drawing the tape out of the cassette and into engagement with a portion of the periphery of the guide drum for scanning by at least one rotary magnetic head associated with the drum, and for unloading the tape, that is, removing the tape from the drum periphery, and brakes are provided which are engageable with the reel support and drive members and controlled for preventing rotation of both reels at the conclusion of each recording, reproducing, fast-forward or rewind operations of the apparatus, and for permitting rotation of only one of the reels during loading and unloading operations of the device provided therefor, so that the tape is unwound only from that one reel during each loading operation and rewound on that one reel during the next unloading operation.