Tape guide arrangement for use in magnetic video tape recording apparatus

Claim 1

A WIDE BAND MAGNETIC TAPE VIDEO RECORDING UNIT COMPRISING A TAPE SUPPLY REEL; A TAPE TAKE-UP REEL; A TAPE GUIDE; AND MAGNETIC TAPE DISPOSED ABOUT SAID TAPE SUPPLY REEL, SAID TAPE GUIDE AND SAID TAPE TAKE-UP REEL IN SUCH A WAY THAT SAID TAPE DEFINES A PORTION OF A CYLINDER ABOUT SAID TAPE GUIDE AND THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER OF SAID TAPE IS DISPOSED ON A SINGLE PLANE; A BASE PLATE, THE CYLINDRICAL SURFACE OF SAID TAPE GUIDE BEING INCLINED WITH RESPECT TO SAID BASE PLATE; A ROTARY DISK HAVING A PLURALITY OF MAGNETIC HEADS MOUNTED SUBSTANTIALLY AT THE PERIPHERY THEREOF; MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID DISK IN A PLANE DISPOSED AT AN ANGLE TO THE CENTRAL AXIS OF SAID CYLINDRICAL PORTION OF SAID TAPE GUIDE; SAID TAPE GUIDE DEFINING A SLOT, A PORTION OF WHICH IS CONTIGUOUS TO SAID TAPE AND EXTENDING FROM ONE POINT CONTIGUOUS TO ONE TRANSVERSE LIMIT OF SAID TAPE TO ANOTHER POINT CONTIGUOUS TO THE OTHER TRANSVERSE LIMIT OF SAID TAPE; SAID DISK BEING DISPOSED AT LEAST PARTIALLY WITHIN SAID SLOT FOR CONTIGUOUSLY SCANNING SAID TAPE; MEANS FOR LONGITUDINALLY MOVING SAID TAPE FROM SAID SUPPLY REEL TO SAID TAKE-UP REEL; A FIRST IDLER ARRNAGED IN PARALLEL WITH SAID CYLINDRICAL SURFACE OF SAID TAPE GUIDE FOR GUIDING SAID TAPE INTO CONTACT WITH SAID TAPE GUIDE FOR GUIDING SAID TAPE INTO CONTACT WITH AT RIGHT ANGLES TO SAID BASE PLATE, AND A CORRECTING POST ARRANGED MIDWAY BETWEEN SAID FIRST IDLER AND SAID SECOND IDLER, SAID CORRECTING POST BEING INCLINED WITH RESPECT TO SAID BASE PLATE IN ORDER TO HAVE THE CONVERSION OF RECTILINEAR MOVEMENT AND SPIRAL MOVEMENT OF SAID TAPE PERFORMED.