APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY WINDING A MAGNETIC TAPE

摘要

An apparatus for automatically winding an information-carrying type such as a magnetic tape into a cassette which initially has a continuous leader extending between and connected to a pair of rotary hubs thereof is disclosed. A transfer structure operates to extend an initially relatively short loop of the continuous leader into a relatively long loop extending from the cassette to a holding structure which holds the leader as well as the information-carrying tape and which is capable of assuming a pair of splicing positions in which after the continuous leader is cut into separate leaders a leading end of a length of information-carrying tape is spliced to one of the leaders and a trailing end of the length of informationcarrying tape is spliced to the other of the leaders, with the length of information-carrying tape and the leaders connected to the opposed ends thereof being wound into the cassette. The above operations can be rendered fully automatic particularly by reason of the transfer structure which extends the initially continuous leader from the cassette to the holding structure where the splicing operations are carried out.