Magnetic recording and/or playing back apparatus

Claim 1

In an apparatus for recording and/or playing back magnetic recordings on and/or from a tape-shaped record carrier accommodated in a cassette having at least one bored flangeless winding core adapted to be placed on a winding spindle comprising a fixed axle mounted on said apparatus, a turntable rotatably mounted on an end of said axle, driving means carried by said apparatus for driving said turntable, a sheath-like hub carried on said turntable, a bearing element rotatably mounted at the end of said axle remote from said turntable, said bearing having a radially extending supporting surface resting on an end of said hub remote from said turntable, a carrier element in the shape of an ogival hat integral with said bearing element rotatably mounted on said hub, at least one radially projecting ogival shaped carrier rib mounted on said carrier element arranged for driving engagement with radial projections in the bore of the winding core of said cassette when said cassette is in place on said spindle, a first coupling member carried on said carrier element, a second coupling member carried on said turntable arranged for coupling engagement with said first coupling member when said turntable is driven so as to drive said carrier element, and abutment means mounted on said carrier element and said turntable for limiting rotatable movement of said carrier element with respect to said turntable and for imparting rotational movement of said turntable to said carrier element.