| 摘要 |
A tape cassette having a cassette casing having rotatably contained therein a pair of tape reels having fixed thereto respective ends of a tape and a front lid rotatably supported at the fore end of the cassette casing to cover the front surface of the tape partly led out from the cassette casing through tape outlets provided at the fore end of the cassette casing. The cassette includes reel lock members provided to both side walls of the cassette casing slidably in their forward and backward directions to shift in linkage with opening and closing of the front lid, engagement claws provided rotatably at the rear end sections of the reel lock members to engage in and disengage from engagement teeth provided around the flanges of the tape reels, and elastic deformable members provided between the engagement claws and primary sections to the reel lock members and guide sections to guide the movement of the reel lock members. In operation, the engagement claws of the reel lock members engage in the engagement teeth of the tape reels when the front lid is closed and disengage from the engagement teeth when the front lid is opened.
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