Method and apparatus for producing magnetic tape cartridge
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsKazuo Kubota, Hiroshi Ozawa
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Abstract
A magnetic tape is spaced from and by an air guide and simultaneously tilted down in a transverse direction thereof by the air guide and is subsequently wound on a reel hub of a tape reel installed in a cartridge shell housing with the downside edge thereof leaned on one of reel flanges of the tape reel which is on the same side as the downside edge of the magnetic reel so as to complete a magnetic tape cartridge. The air guide comprises an air blowing means device for blowing pressurized air against the magnetic tape in a specified pressure distribution pattern in which pressure is lower on the downside edge than on an opposite side edge in the transverse direction so as hereby to tilt down the magnetic tape in the transverse direction.
Claims17
A method for producing a magnetic tape cartridge by winding a magnetic tape around a tape reel having a reel hub and reel flanges secured to the reel hub which is installed in a cartridge shell housing, said magnetic tape cartridge producing method comprising the steps of:
- feeding a magnetic tape toward said tape reel;
- tilting down said magnetic tape in a transverse direction of said magnetic tape while guiding said magnetic tape in non-contact with said magnetic tape within a specified guide area in a longitudinal direction of said magnetic tape;
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- winding said magnetic tape on said reel hub with a downside edge of said magnetic tape leaned on a specified one of said reel flanges.
An apparatus for producing a magnetic tape cartridge by winding a magnetic tape around a tape reel having a reel hub and reel flanges secured to the reel hub which is installed in a cartridge shell housing, said magnetic tape cartridge producing apparatus comprising:
- a tape reel for feeding a magnetic tape;
- air guide means for tilting down said magnetic tape in a transverse direction of said magnetic tape while guiding said magnetic tape in non-contact with said magnetic tape within a specified guide area in a longitudinal direction of said magnetic tape;
- and
- winding means for winding said magnetic tape on said reel hub with a downside edge of said magnetic tape leaned on a specified one of said reel flanges.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.