Patent ID: 6471156
Filing Date: 2002-10-29
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A reel support for rotating reels in a magnetic tape cassette inserted in a magnetic tape recording-and-playing apparatus, wherein the reel support is a resin mold, and the reel support comprises a support stage having a reel post and blades integrally connected to and standing upright from the support stage, the upright blades extending in longitudinal slots provided in a circumference of the upright reel post, each upright blade having a tip end and a nail formed on said tip end and partially appearing from the circumference of the upright reel post for being caught by a selected projection in an indentation of an aperture of either reel; and said longitudinal slots have stepwise indents respectively formed on sides thereof facing tail sides of the nails of the blades respectively extending in the longitudinal slots, thus permitting corners of the nails to be respectively engaged with the stepwise indents.