Patent ID: 7215505

Claim:
A pole base assembly for a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus for guiding a tape drawn from a reel through a predetermined path toward a lead surface of a head drum, the pole base assembly comprising: a pole base disposed to approach and retreat from a side of the head drum when the tape is loaded and unloaded, respectively; a sloping pole, coupled to the pole base and sloped at a sloping angle with respect to the pole base, for guiding the tape fed to the head drum at a predetermined angle, to be substantially parallel to the lead surface; and a supporting holder, disposed on the pole base and configured to support the sloping pole at the sloping angle, the supporting holder having a first planar supporting surface extending from said pole base and having a width less than a diameter of said sloping pole, said first planar supporting surface being at an incline to define an incline of the sloping pole with respect to the pole base, said sloping pole directly contacting said first planar supporting surface.