Device for magnetically orienting the magnetizable particles or magnetic recording media in a preferred direction

A device for magnetically orienting the magnetizable particles of magnetic recording media other than metal discs in a preferred direction, which media are obtained by applying a coating of anisotropically magnetic particles finely dispersed in a solution of an organic binder system and conventional additives to a non-magnetic base, and subsequently solidifying the coating, by the action, on the still fluid coating, of the magnetic fields produced by two electromagnets which are arranged symmetrically with respect to, and in mirror-image relationship to, the plane of the said coating, and between the pole shoes of which air gaps are formed, wherein the two electromagnets are E-shaped and each have three pole shoes between which two coplanar air gaps are formed, the face of all three pole shoes of each said electromagnet extending in a plane parallel and in close proximity to the recording media, and the coils are wound on the middle legs of the E-shaped magnets.