Patent ID: 7124561

Claim:
A tape guide apparatus in a binding machine for gardening, comprising: a driver handle; a tape magazine storing tape and disposed on said driver handle; a tape guide mounted on said driver handle for forming a cylindrical tape passage upwardly of said driver handle; a clincher arm disposed in combination with said driver handle; a first projecting portion formed on an inner wall surface of said tape passage; a first plate spring disposed on the inner wall surface of said tape passage opposed to said first projecting portion, having a leading end thereof directed toward the downstream side of said tape passage, and elastically contactable with said first projecting portion; and a second plate spring disposed on the inner wall surface of said tape passage opposed to said first projecting portion, arranged in series with said first plate spring, and having a leading end thereof directed toward the downstream side of said tape passage, wherein said tape loaded into said tape magazine is inserted into said tape passage and is pulled out from the leading end portion of said tape guide, and wherein said tape is held by and between said first plate spring and said first projecting portion, and said second plate spring is contacted with said tape.