Tape winding apparatus
AssigneeSony Magnescale Inc.
InventorsHideharu Tsukamoto, Shiro Matsuzaki, Yoshihiko Miyasaka
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Abstract
A tape winding apparatus, in which a tape drawn from a pancake reel and loaded onto a reel base is wound and accommodated within a cassette, includes a pancake reel exchanging apparatus, wherein at least two pancake reels coaxially disposed with respect to the axial direction of the reel base are loaded onto the reel base. Therefore, a plurality of pancake reels can be loaded onto this tape winding apparatus and the tape winding apparatus can be made comparatively small in size.
Claims14
A tape winding apparatus in which a tape is drawn from a pancake reel loaded onto a reel base and the tape thus drawn is wound and accommodated within a cassette, comprising:
- means for bonding a portion of a leading end of the tape wound on the pancake reel to a surface of an underlying layer of the tape, whereby the leading end is prevented from becoming loose and another portion of the leading end defines a free end of said magnetic tape;
- slack forming means for forming a slack portion in the tape and being movable in a radial direction relative to the pancake reel to engage said free end and push said free end in said radial direction, and being further movable in a circumferential direction relative to the pancake reel to form a slack portion in said free end while pushing said free end;
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- holding means for holding the tape in a position for maintaining the slack formed by said slack forming means.
A tape winding apparatus in which a tape is drawn from a pancake reel loaded onto a reel base and the tape thus drawn is wound and accommodated within a cassette, comprising:
- a leading end of the tape wound on the pancake reel having a different color than a color of a remainder of the tape, and means for bonding one portion of the different color leading end to a surface of an underlying layer of the tape wound on the pancake reel, whereby said leading end is prevented from becoming loose and another portion of the different color leading end defines a free end of said magnetic tape;
- slack forming means for forming a slack portion in the tape and being movable in a radial direction relative to the pancake reel to engage said free end and push said free end in said radial direction, and being further movable in a circumferential direction relative to the pancake reel to form a slack portion in said free end while pushing said free end;
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- holding means for holding the tape in a position for maintaining the slack formed by said slack forming means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.