Patent ID: 6081403
Filing Date: 2000-06-27
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A tape loading mechanism of a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus having a tape travel system in which a magnetic tape wound from a supply-side tape reel is helically wound around between inlet and outlet sides of an inclined drum along a lead thereof and passed via a capstan and wound around a take-up side tape reel, comprising:means for setting a highest vertical position of said lead with respect to said inclined drum equal to the vertical position of a lower edge of said tape with respect to said inclined drum immediately before said magnetic tape is loaded onto said drum; andmeans for twisting said magnetic tape in said tape travel system in order to cancel a difference in tension between upper and lower edges of said magnetic tape when said magnetic tape is loaded onto said drum wherein said twisting means includes only a single tape guide of said tape travel system provided on the outlet side of said drum accomplishes twisting of said magnetic tape so that the highest vertical position of the lead is equal to that of the lower edge of the magnetic tape immediately before the magnetic tape is loaded onto said drum.