Pressure device for recording media in a tape cassette

A cassette for a recording medium in tape form for use in a recording/reproducing apparatus comprising a scanning member, the cassette having a front wall with at least one entry opening for said scanning member, said at least one entry opening having a contour and tape guides adjacent to the inner side of said front wall and adjacent to said contour of the at least one entry opening, said recording medium extending between said tape guides and in a span over said entry opening and a pressure device which is arranged behind said entry opening and said tape span, there being provided, seen from the front side of the cassette, a fixed-in-place mounting element with bearing points for the pressure device at a distance from the center of said at least one entry opening, said pressure device having a resilient support element mounted on the mounting element and being provided with at least one pressure element interacting with said resilient support element, and the scanning member effecting in the operating position a reversible deflection of the resilient support element of said at least one pressure element;

• which cassette comprises extension arms projecting on both sides of said resilient support element laterally beyond said mounting element and having end parts, and counter pressure elements on said inner side of the front wall adjacent to said tape guides, where, when the scanning member is not introduced into the cassette and the resilient support element is thus in the non-deflected position, said end parts of said resilient support element do not contact the rear side of said recording medium or contact it substantially without any pressure, and when the scanning member is introduced into the cassette and the resilient support element is thus in the deflected position, the deflection pivots the resilient support element at the bearing points, making the resilient support element's end parts contact the rear side of the recording medium with pressure thereby urging the front side of the recording medium against said counter pressure elements of the cassette.