Reel-to-reel tape to tape cartridge adapter

Claim 1

In combination with a conventional magnetic tape player adapted to receive and play a tape cartridge carrying magnetic tape, said cartridge having selected physical and geometric characteristics, said player including: an aperture for receiving said tape cartridge; means in said player for driving a transport means for said tape in said tape cartridge; magnetic head means for contacting and interacting with the magnetized surface of said tape in said cartridge; amplifier and speaker means for utilizing the electrical signals generated in said magnetic head means; the improvement in apparatus for adapting said player for playing a non-cartridge type reel-to-reel tape of the type wherein the reels are completely independent elements, comprising: a. frame means having two principal parts; 1. a first frame means having substantially the same exterior characteristics as said tape cartridge; and adapted to be received in said aperture like said tape cartridge; 2. second frame means for independently supporting a take up reel and a storage reel, said storage reel carrying a tape to be played in said player, said second frame means adapted to be disposed on the outside of said player when said first frame means is inserted into said player whereby both of said reels are accessible; b. means for driving said take up reel, which when said first frame is inserted into said player, is responsive to said means for driving in said player; c. means in said first frame means for guiding said tape from said storage reel through said first frame means and past a first aperture in the front end of said first frame means similar to the path of the tape and the aperture in said tape cartridge; and then to said take up reel; whereby when said first frame is inserted into said player, said tape will be in operating relation to said magnetic head means.