Drum assembly in magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus and manufacturing method thereof.

摘要

Improvement of a lower cylinder of a drum assembly for a helical scan type magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus, a magnetic tape being wrapped around the drum assembly in a predetermined angular range with respect to its own axis which is wider than a scanning angular range so as to have an additional tape-wrapping angular range on at least a tape-entry portion from which the tape starts to be wrapped around the drum assembly. The lower cylinder integrally has on its outer circumferential surface a tape-guiding portion for guiding the tape on wraping it around the drum assembly, a tape-wrapping portion on which the magentic tape is wrapped along the tape-guiding portion in a direction substantially coincident with a direction of rotation of the upper cylinder and a protruding portion formed in the additional tape-wrapping angular range so as to be protroded by a predetermined amount with respect to the tape-wrapping portion. The protruding portion initially comes into contact with the tape to be entered onto the drum assembly and has a wedge-like shape in which its top is substantially directed in the tape-travelling direction. The protruding amount of the protruding portion with respect to the tape-wrapping portion being substantially equal to a protruding amount of the magnetic head from an upper cylinder of the drum assembly.