Tape guide with path location and attitude adjustments

In a record and/or replay system of the type wherein tape travels in a loop around a cylindrical portion of a rotating scanner having transducers disposed about its cylindrical surface, the improvement comprising:

• a tape guide for use at either the beginning or the end of the tape loop and including means for making adjustments to both the location of the tape path over the cylindrical surface of the scanner and the attitude of the tape path relative to the cylindrical surface of the scanner, in a common direction with said adjustments being facilitated by said common direction being substantially parallel to the plane of the tape;
• said tape path adjustment is accomplished with a guide post having a tape edge guide affixed thereto, said guide post being slidably affixed on a mounting block by a retaining rod flexibly affixed in said mounting block and first spring means for applying force through said guide post to said retaining rod in one slidable direction of said guide post while a first screw is threaded through said mounting block along an axis parallel to the plane of the tape for adjusting the position of said guide post by moving said retaining rod relative to said first spring means;
• and wherein said tape attitude adjustment is accomplished with a mounting base on which said mounting block is pivotally affixed through a pivot pin while pivotal adjustment is provided therebetween with a second screw and second spring means for applying force between said mounting block and said mounting base to one side of said pivot pin, said second screw being threaded into said mounting base through said mounting block along an axis parallel to the plane of the tape and to the other side of said pivot pin for moving said mounting block relative to said mounting base and in cooperation with the force of said second spring means.