Tape casette with tape cleaners

A tape cassette which comprises:

• a casing including top and bottom rectangular flat panels and a peripheral wall disposed between said top and bottom panels to keep them spaced apart a distance to define a tape chamber, said peripheral wall including front and rear wall sections and a pair of side wall sections, said top and bottom panels being assembled together with said peripheral wall to form a generally rectangular, generally flat box-like configuration;
• said front wall section having first, second and third access windows defined therein and spaced apart from one another so as to leave first and second front wall portions between said first and second access windows and between said second and third access windows, respectively, said second access window being adapted to receive therein a magnetic recording and/or reproducing head, and said first and third access windows being adapted to receive therein a pinch roller and a motor-coupled capstan;
• a pair of freely rotatable reels accommodated within said tape chamber;
• a pair of spaced apart guide rollers rotatably disposed in said tape chamber at respective corner areas adjacent said front wall section and said pair of side wall sections, respectively;
• a length of magnetic recording tape anchored at a first end thereof to a first one of said reels, being trained about said pair of guide rollers, and having a second end anchored to a second one of said reels, such that said magnetic recording tape includes a front section extending between said pair of guide rollers and substantially in parallel to said front wall section, and such that said magnetic recording tape is adapted to travel between said first and second reels when said tape cassette is in use within a magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus;
• a presser pad disposed within said tape chamber rearwardly of and in alignment with said second access window and rearwardly of said front section of said magnetic recording tape, such that said front section of said magnetic recording tape is sandwiched between said presser pad and the magnetic recording and/or reproducing head when the magnetic recording and/or reproducing head is in a use position inserted into said tape chamber through said second access window;
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• first and second tape cleaners disposed within said tape chamber and secured to said first and second front wall portions so as to slidingly contact a forwardly facing surface of said front section of said magnetic recording tape, each of said first and second tape cleaners having a width sufficient to encompass the width of said magnetic recording tape.