Patent ID: 6967812

Claim:
A magnetic recording/reproducing device, wherein information is recorded on or reproduced from a tape provided in a cassette by winding the tape around a rotary head cylinder at a prescribed angle after the tape is drawn out from the cassette, which includes a supply reel and a take-up reel, by tape guide members, and wherein when a winding contact line along-which the tape contacts a tape guide member is perpendicular to the tape running direction, the tape guide member is defined as a vertical post, and when the winding contact line along which the tape contacts the tape guide member is not perpendicular to the tape running direction, the tape guide member is defined as an inclined post, the device characterized in that; a first vertical post is located downstream with respect to the supply reel; the first vertical post is followed by a first inclined post, a second vertical post and the rotary head cylinder; only the first vertical post, the first inclined post and the second vertical post are provided between the supply reel and the rotary head cylinder; the first vertical post is located on a left side along the tape running direction; and the first inclined post and the second vertical post are located on a right side along the tape running direction.