JPS6425381A - Tape cassette - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To completely seal a tape, which is not used yet, in a tape cassette by providing a storing body to, further, slidably store a holding body stored a reel wound up the tape. CONSTITUTION:At the time of using the tape, after the tape cassette is inserted into the cassette holder, etc., of a magnetic recording and reproducing device, the end faces of a holding body 1 or a storing body 2 are pressed by a projection provided to the cassette holder, etc., and a projecting part 8 of the holding body 1 and a guiding groove 9 of the storing body 2 are abutted to each other and slid. The holding body 1 is pulled out from a storing body opening part 21 of the storing body 2, and a condition is made in which a tape 5 held by the holding body 1 emerges to the outside of the tape cassette. At the time of storing the tape, a tape loading post 15 is discharged from a prescribed loading position, a reel 6 is driven in a tape winding direction, the tape 5 is wound in the holding body 1, and further, the holding body 1 is slid and stored in the storing body. Thus, the tape 5 can be completely sealed in the tape cassette.