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Reel-to-reel adapter for tape cartridge player
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Inventors: Tomoser, Herbert;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Tupper; Robert S.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Bean, Kauffman & Bean
An adapter is disclosed for use in playing reel-to-reel magnetic tapes on a conventional tape cartridge player. The adapter includes a mounting portion whose configuration is generally complimentary to the configuration of a conventional tape cartridge and adapted to be inserted into a tape cartridge receiving recess of the player in place of such tape cartridge; and a supporting portion adapted to support a pair of tape reel mounting spindles. The mounting portion is designed and the reels are driven in a manner permitting the reels to alternatively function as supply and take-up reels incident to inversions of the mounting portion when inserted within the recess of the player. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION Reference is now made particularly to FIG.
1, wherein a conventional tape cartridge player is generally designated as 10 and shown as being formed with a recess or cavity 12, which is sized to receive a standard eight-track tape cartridge, not shown.
In FIGS.
2 and 4, standard elements of player 10, which are arranged adjacent recess 12 and used in the practice of the present invention, are shown as including a magnetic head 14; a tape transport means, such as a capstan 16; a tape position detecting element 18; and a tape cartridge retaining device, such as may be defined by a roller 20 carried by a spring strip 22.
The construction and mode of operation of these elements, as well as the speaker, amplifier and associated electrical circuits, not shown, provided in a conventional tape cartridge player are well known and thus need not be described in detail.
In accordance with the present invention, an adapter generally designated as 30 in the drawings is employed to permit playing of conventional reel-to-reel magnetic tapes by player 10 without requiring modification of the player in any respect.
To facilitate the following description of adapter 30, it will be understood that the adapter is intended to assume first and second relatively inverted operative positions relative to player 10 and that such positions have been arbitrarily designated by numers I and I' in FIG.
1.
Adapter 30 generally comprises a mounting portion 32; a support portion 34 carried by the mounting portion; a pair of spindles 36 and 36', which are journalled on the support portion and serve to mount a pair of conventional tape reels 38 and 38'; and an arrangement cooperating with capstan 16 for transporting a conventional magnetic tape 40 in opposite directions between the reels.
In a preferred form of the present invention, this last mentioned arrangement includes a pair of pinch rollers 42 and 42', which cooperate with capstan 16 to withdraw tape 40 from alternate ones of reels 38 and 38', respectively, and drive means 44 for effecting tape take-up producing rotations of the other of such reels
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