FIX REEL TYPE ENDLESS TAPE CASSETTE

摘要

An endless tape cassette comprises a stationary reel having a slit communicating the inner and outer peripheral sides and carrying an endless tape wound on the outer periphery, guide plates for guiding the endless tape wound on said stationary reel such that it is pulled out from the inner periphery of the tape roll through said slit and taken up on the outer periphery of said tape reel, and a housing accommodating and supporting said stationary reel and guide plates. The housing includes a bottom plate formed with an opening for permitting a tape drive mechanism to be inserted therethrough into housing for operative coupling to said endless tape, a top plate facing said bottom plate, a pair of side plates, a front end plate and a rear end plate. A flexible lid member is provided on said housing to be movable between a first position at which it extends along said bottom plate for closing said opening in said bottom plate and a second position at which it extends along said top plate for opening said opening in said bottom plate.