Tape system

Claim 2

A tape system, comprising an outer cassette (3,4) for insertion in a tape recorder and/or player, with mounting locations for mounting tape reels rotatably within the cassette (3,4), guide means defining a guided tape path between such tape reels, and access whereby a rotating drive of the recorder and/or player can drive the tape in use from outside the cassette, characterised in that a first such tape reel is contained in the casing (10,12) of a separate cartridge (1) which is removably insertable in the cassette (3,4) to an installed condition in which the first tape reel is aligned with a said mounting location (9) in the cassette (3,4), said cartridge casing (10,12) having a tape exit (13) for passage of tape from the first tape reel, and the cassette having a tape loading guide (5,6) for guiding tape drawn from the cartridge (1), upon insertion thereof in the cassette, into the tape path.

Claim 3

A tape system with a two-part tape container, comprising: a. a single tape reel having container called shell tape, said single tape reel container includes: at least two parallel planar surfaces, having axle 25 holes and at least one side wall thereon, said at least one side wall having a tape outlet; a tape reel within said single tape reel container with its header withdrawn in any angular position within the container, said tape header is operative to spring out of or to be exposed at said tape outlet by rotating the tape axle and to be further pulled out for use; said single tape reel container adopts shell struc­ture; and b. an adaptive cassette (referred to as open casse­tte) used in a cassette recorder or cassette player for holding said single reel tape in particular, said shell tape. Said adaptive cassette is a non-self-driven tape interfacing container having a pair of driving axle holes, and includes: a tape guiding mechanism and a double-drive-hole tape cabin, and a cassette substrate constituted of said tape guiding mechanism and said tape cabin as its main body; a tape cabin cover that can be opened and closed, and has double-drive-hole; a tape guiding mechanism protecting cover on said cassette substrate positioned on the same side as said tape cassette cover; a tape loading groove along the edge on the side adjacent to the tape guiding path of said protecting cover, which is outwardly exposed and connected with the left and right regions of said tape cabin on both ends.

Claim 4

A tape system with a two-part tape container, comprising: a. a single tape reel having container called shell tape, said single tape reel container includes: at least two parallel planar surfaces, having axle 25 holes and at least one side wall thereon, said at least one side wall having a tape outlet; a tape reel within said single tape reel container with its header withdrawn in any angular position within the container, said tape header is operative to spring out of or to be exposed at said tape outlet by rotating the tape axle and to be further pulled out for use; said single tape reel container adopts shell struc­ture; and b. an adaptive cassette (referred to as open casse­tte) used in a cassette recorder or cassette player for holding said single reel tape in particular, said shell tape. Said adaptive cassette is a non-self-driven tape interfacing container having a pair of driving axle holes, and includes: a tape guiding mechanism and a double-drive-hole tape cabin, and a cassette substrate constituted of said tape guiding mechanism and said tape cabin as its main body; a tape cabin cover that can be opened and closed, and has double-drive-hole; a tape guiding mechanism protecting cover on said cassette substrate positioned on the same side as said tape cassette cover; a tape loading groove along the edge on the side adjacent to the tape guiding path of said protecting cover, which is outwardly exposed and connected with the left and right regions of said tape cabin on both ends.

Claim 5

3 . A tape system having container according to claim 1, wherein, said single tape reel container is machine-­shaped from sheet materials, and formed by combining a thin convex shell upper assembly with a thin substrate lower assembly or two thin convex shell assemblies.

Claim 6

A tape system having container according to claim 1, wherein, the inner wall and outer wall of said single tape reel container are parallel to each other, said tape reel placed in said container is free to move along the radial direction within the shell.

Claim 7

A single tape reel container according to claim 3, wherein, the connecting portion of the upper and lower assemblies forms a flange.

Claim 8

A tape system having container according to claim 1, wherein, the external header of the head leader of the tape of said tape reel is elastic and has a bending fold and an orifice for hooking on the tape receiving wheel.

Claim 9

A tape system having container according to claim 1, wherein, said tape guiding mechanism protecting cover of said adaptive cassette covers the tape guiding mechanism near the region of the substrate confined by the two outside semicircles corresponding to the left and right tape guiding rollers positioned at the two ends of said tape guiding mechanism, and said tape loading groove surrounds said protecting cover from three sides forming a "C" shape.

Claim 10

A tape system having container according to claim 1, wherein, a tape take-up wheel having a tape hook means is provided at the position of a drive hole of of the tape cabin of said adaptive cassette; said tape take-up wheel has at least one hook or stub element operable to hook the hole in the header of the head leader and a guiding crevice for inserting the tape, said tape take-up wheel is fixed in position by a compressing tongue frame or an embedding ring on the back of the tape cabin, a window or recess of the same shape as said compressing tongue frame is provided on the cabin cover.

Claim 11

9 . A tape system having container according to claim 1, wherein, in the tape cabin of said adaptive cassette, the tape axle guide ring has at least one positioning keyseat, the tape window of the cassette substrate is formed by a tongue shaped rim. The tape guiding mechanism protecting cover can be integrated with the tape guiding mechanism, and constitutes a portion of the tape guiding mechanism body.

Claim 12

A tape system having container according to claim 1, wherein, the edge of said tape guiding mechanism protecting cover of said adaptive cassette adjacent to the tape cabin is the contacting edge of the tape cabin cover with any one of the four edges of the assette sub­strate as its opening axis, the exposed tape guiding mechanism protecting cover and the tape loading groove are the constituting portions of the front surface of the cassette.

Claim 13

A tape system having container according to claim 1, wherein, the tape cabin cover of said adaptive cassette with any one of the four edges of the cassette substrate as its opening axis is the major portion or whole of the front surface of the cassette, the closed cabin cover covers the tape guiding mechanism protecting cover and the tape loading groove.