Tape loading apparatus for use in a recording and/or reproducing apparatus of the rotating head kind

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A tape loading apparatus in which a tape is extracted from a tape cassette and wound around a rotary head drum by a pair of tape guide blocks. The tape guide blocks are moved along a pair of guide rails arranged around both sides of the rotary head drum by being driven through a pair of ring gears. At least one of the guide rails is inclined with respect to a plane perpendicular to the axis of the rotary head drum in order that the pair of tape guide blocks have a level difference at the tape-loaded positions thereof. A parallel movement mechanism is provided for moving at least one of ring gears along the axis of the rotary head drum so that the level relationships between the tape guide …