Recording and/or reproducing apparatus using a tape cassette
AssigneeVictor Company of Japan, Ltd.
InventorHiroshi Katoh
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Abstract
An automatically loading recording and/or reproducing apparatus comprises a mechanism which operates at the time of loading. The mechanism draws a tape from a tape cassette and loads it along a specific tape traveling path. At the time of unloading, the mechanism pulls the tape back into the tape cassette. A mechanism locks a fast-forward or rewinding manipulation mechanism so that a driving mechanism cannot be operated when the manipulation mechanism is operated and locked. The locking mechanism activates the apparatus in a tape fast-forward or rewinding operation upon completion of the unloading operation.
Claims9
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus of the type using a tape cassette containing a recording tape therewithin, said apparatus comprising:
- means for drawing the tape out of the cassette and placing the tape in a predetermined tape level path at the time of loading the apparatus and for replacing the tape in the tape travel path back into the cassette at the time of unloading the apparatus;
- a fast-forward operation mechanism for placing the apparatus in a fast-forward mode responsive to controllable manipulation;
- fast-forward drive means operated responsive to the fast-forward control mechanism being thus manipulated to place the apparatus in the fast-forward mode operational state;
- a rewind operation mechanism for placing the apparatus in a tape rewind mode responsive to controllable manipulation;
- rewind drive means operated responsive to manipulation of the rewind control mechanism to place the apparatus in the tape rewind mode operational state;
- locking means for locking the fast-forward control mechanism and the rewind control mechanism in their respective manipulated states;
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- control means for maintaining unoperated the fast-forward drive means or the rewind drive means at the time when the apparatus is in the unloading mode despite the locked manipulated state of the fast-forward control mechanism or the rewind control mechanism and for maintaining unoperated said mechanism upon completion of the unloading operation of the apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.