Patent ID: 6865054

Claim:
A magnetic tape device comprising: a pair of right and left guide plates; a tape cassette moving table that is placed to be movable forward and backward between a cassette inserting position and a cassette placing position that are set between said pair of right and left guide plates; a rocking lever pivotally attached to one of said guide plates; a guide rod protruding from said moving table which is engaged with a recessed groove formed in a tip end portion of said rocking lever; a press spring engagingly held by said rocking lever and pressed against said guide rod; a cam formed in said recessed groove of said rocking lever; and a driving source wherein said moving table is slightly pushed-in in a backward motion direction by inserting a tape cassette to said moving table that is on standby at the cassette inserting position, and said driving source is activated in response to detection of the pushing, thereby backward swinging said rocking lever, and backward moving said moving table via said guide rod to the cassette placing position; and wherein when said moving table is pushed-in from the cassette inserting position in the backward motion direction, said guide rod is transferred onto said cam to increase a pressing force of said press spring.