Telephone answering device having function of playback without rewinding tape

Claim 1

A telephone answering device having immediate playback function, comprising; means for sending a prerecorded outgoing message to a calling party in response to an incoming call; means for setting an incoming message tape to a most suitable recording position during said sending of the outgoing message; means for recording an incoming message from the calling party on the incoming message tape from said most suitable recording position according to a beep tone generated after said sending of the outgoing message; means for rewinding the incoming message tape to a beginning position after the recording of said incoming message is completed; means for fast forwarding said incoming message tape to next recording position following said recording position while the outgoing message is sent out to the calling part in response to next incoming call; means for recording the incoming message from said next recording position on the incoming message tape according to the beep tone generated after the sending of the outgoing message; and means for rewinding again the incoming message tape to the beginning position after said recording, wherein when a user returns to his home or he remotely operates the device from a remote location after the incoming messages from the calling parties are successively recorded, said recorded incoming messages can be played back immediately from the beginning position of the incoming message tape.