Patent ID: 6914736

Claim:
A magnetic transfer apparatus comprising a holder which contains therein a master information carrier carrying thereon information to be transferred and a slave medium to which the information born by the master information carrier is to be transferred so that the master information carrier and the slave medium are opposed to each other with their one sides facing each other, a vacuum contact means which evacuates the holder so that the master information carrier and the slave medium are pressed against each other under pressure acting on the holder when the holder is evacuated, and a magnetic field application device which applies a transfer magnetic field to the slave-medium-master-information-carrier assembly, wherein the improvement comprises that: the holder comprises upper and lower holder portions respectively having flat plate portions which are brought into abutment against the other side of the slave medium or the master information carrier and are movable toward and away from each other, at least one of the flat plate portions is flexible, and the at least one flexible flat plate portion is disposed in the magnetic transfer apparatus such that it is deformed by the pressure acting on the holder when the holder is evacuated.