摘要 |
PURPOSE:To full automatically and quickly remove the defective part of a tape without causing the break of the tape or the damage of tape edge by providing a joined tape supplying means while allowing free entrance and exit to and from a plane on which a tape cassette and a tape pedestal, etc., are provided. CONSTITUTION:A tape cassette 1 is set, a pulling arm 8 rotates in the direction A, a pulling arm 11 shifts perpendicular to a substrate and rotates in the direction B and a magnetic tape TM is pulled out. A leader tape TR and the magnetic tape TM are cut between tape pedestals 4, 5, and a rocking table 20 rotates in the direction C. A joined tape supplying means 13 moves from the outside of a plane in which the tape TM is pulled out to the inside of the plane, and tape ends 28a, 25b are connected by a tape piece 27b, and the defective part of the magnetic tape TM is rolled in an abandoned tape roll and cut. The rocking table 20 is rocked, and tape ends 26a, 25a are connected by a tape piece 27b. The supplying means 13 moves, the pulling arm 11 is rocked and a pin 10 gets off to the outside of the passage. The pulling arm 8 is rocked and the tape TM is taken up in the cassette 1.
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