Abstract: A tape cassette receiving housing comprises a housing proper portion and a lid portion which is fixed to the housing proper portion through a hinge portion so as to enable to be opened or closed. Shaft portions are formed so as to penetrate into reel driving holes of a supply reel and a take-up reel of a tape cassette received in the housing proper portion. Elastic bodies are attached to outer peripheries of the shaft portions, and the elastic bodies are brought into contact with inner peripheral surfaces of reel driving holes. According to the above construction, a tape cassette is fixed in the tape cassette receiving housing so as not to incline the tape cassette and not to rotate the supply reel and the take-up reel.

Abstract: A cassette reel in use for a video tape cassette including a hub and an upper flange made of a transparent plate which is provided with an annular groove on one side surface of the upper flange and a foil deposited on the surface of the upper flange which is surrounded by the annular groove, so that the foil can be cut clearly and then deposited on the face of the upper flange which is surrounded by the annular groove by hot stamp with a clear outer profile, whereby decorative effects can be obtained by the foil covering the internal construction of the hub and when the cassette reel is used for a video tape cassette, the commercial value of the video tape cassette can be elevated.

Abstract: A reel brake device for a tape reel of a magnetic tape cassette has a pair of braking strips for a supply reel and a take-up reel. The braking strips are formed with at least one hinged section to allow resilient deformation in order to absorb kinematic energy exerted on the braking strips from the tape reel as the reel is subjected to rotational torque or lateral force. By providing the capability of resilient deformation for the braking strips, braking engagement can be maintained even when vibration exerting rotational force is applied to the tape reels.

Abstract: A tape cassette reel includes a reel hub integrally formed with a wing shaped upper flange and a disc shaped lower flange by means of a molding apparatus having one or more sliding cores operable between upper and lower molds.

Abstract: A tape cassette reel molding apparatus which includes upper and lower opposed molds for forming upper and lower flanges of the tape cassette reel and first and second hub molds provided between the upper and lower molds, the first and second hub molds each having an opposing face which has a semicylindrical cavity therein, at least one of the first and second hub molds being slidable in a direction parallel to the face of the upper mold and away from the other of the first and second hub molds so that when the upper and lower molds and the first and second hub molds are slid into position against each other, the respective cavities therein are all contiguous and a unitary tape cassette reel can be molded.

Abstract: A tape reel for a magnetic tape cassette can accurately hold upper and lower reel flanges parallel to each other. The tape reel for a magnetic tape cassette comprises a reel hub assembly including a first reel flange and a cylindrical reel hub integral with the first reel flange and extending from the center of the first flange. The cylindrical reel hub has a support surface at the end remote from the first reel flange onto which to mount a second reel flange. A fastener and a second reel support projection are formed on the support surface of the reel hub. The fastener fastens the second reel flange on the support surface. The second reel support projection is formed on the support surface. The second reel flange support projection has a plane opposing the second reel flange accurately parallel to the first reel flange.

Abstract: A cassette reel in use for a video tape cassette including a hub and an upper flange made of a transparent plate which is provided with an annular groove on one side surface of the upper flange and a foil deposited on the surface of the upper flange which is surrounded by the annular groove, so that the foil can be cut clearly and then deposited on the face of the upper flange which is surrounded by the annular groove by hot stamp with a clear outer profile, whereby decorative effects can be obtained by the foil covering the internal construction of the hub and when the cassette reel is used for a video tape cassette, the commercial value of the video tape cassette can be elevated.

Abstract: A tape cassette for video or audio units which consists of a housing having an upper half and a lower half, the upper half being composed mainly of an opaque material, the upper half having a transparent window portion on the upper wall thereof. A cover portion is laminated to the upper half, the cover portion being composed of a transparent material, the window portion consisting of a single layer of the transparent material, with an additional portion of the upper half formed of a double layer of the transparent material and the opaque material.

Abstract: A magnetic tape cassette comprising a tape reel having a lower flange with an annular guide projection on a bottom surface thereof and a cassette casing including a lower housing portion with an annular guide portion on the inner surface thereof for limiting play of the tape reel within the cassette casing in any directions of the tape reel assemblies. Dust is generated only at a contacting section between surfaces of the annular projection and the annular recess portion. The dust, therefore, tends to fall out of circular openings of the lower housing portion, and since the edges of the flanges are prevented from coming into contact with the interior surface of the casing, no dust is formed within the cavity in which the tape is disposed; thus damage to the tape is avoided.

Abstract: A tape cassette arrangement includes structures formed integrally with the cassette halves or simply fitted into the light transmission apertures. Specific embodiments of the invention include light polarizing elements which are fitted into apertures formed in the sides of the cassette, corrugations on the interior of the cassette proximate the apertures, and shielding walls which are located to block light and in particular that light which tends to enter through a large window provided in the upper surface of the cassette and through which the status of the tape is visible.

Abstract: In a tape cassette having supply and take-up reels on which a tape extending between the reels is wound, a cassette housing containing the reels, leaf springs for urging the reels toward the lower portion of the housing, and headed pins depending from an upper portion of the housing through holes in the leaf springs for mounting the latter; each leaf spring has a surface portion adjacent the respective hole formed with fine convex and concave irregularities and being engaged by the respective headed pin for securely holding the leaf springs against turning and wobbling about the headed pins.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating a particulate material comprising a casing defining a treating chamber and rotatable at high speed to produce a centrifugal force for pressing the material in the casing against an inside wall surface of the casing. Treating members such as pulverizing members are disposed in the casing for revolution relative to the inside wall surface of the casing. The treating chamber has a discharge opening for permitting overflows of the material under treatment. The discharge opening is disposed adjacent a center of rotation of the casing, and a limiting device is provided adjacent the discharge opening for limiting the overflows of the material under treatment. A classifier is provided to communicate with the discharge opening of the treating chamber for receiving treated material.

Abstract: A magnetic tape cassette is provided with a pivotal closure lid pivotably secured to opposite edges of a casing for movement between a closed position, in which the front opening of the casing through which a magnetic tape can be extracted for loading onto a rotary head while not in use, and an open position wherein the closure lid is pivoted away from said opening to allow access to the tape while in use, is also provided with a sliding closure member slidably mounted on one face of the casing and cooperative with the aforementioned pivotal closure lid, which sliding closure member is held either in a closed position while the pivotal closure lid is in its closed position to cover a bottom spacing through while a device constituting part of a tape handling mechanism may be inserted, or an open position while the pivotal closure lid is in its open position to allow the aforementioned device of the tape handling mechanism to engage the casing through the bottom spacing for extracting the tape for loading onto

Abstract: There is disclosed a grinding crusher having a grinder piece disposed within a crushing chamber for relative rotation with respect to a casing defining the crushing chamber. The casing is journaled and driven in high speed rotation so as to cause a material within the casing to be centrifugally pressed against the inner peripheral surfaces thereof.

Abstract: A circulation classifying chamber having a coarse particle discharge duct connected to a peripheral position thereof and a fine particle discharge duct connected thereto about an axis of circulation, is provided with a baffle member, a nozzle and, as necessary, a rectifier. Particulate materials jetting out of the nozzle on high velocity gas flows violently collide with the baffle member to be crushed and given components of velocity in a direction of flow in the circulation classifying chamber. Thus, crushing and classification proceed in parallel.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the cohesion force of a particulate material. The apparatus comprises a bottomed container composed of a fixed container segment and a movable container segment for containing the particulate material, a driving device for moving the movable container segment perpendicularly to the plane of separation of the container to divide the particulate material in the container into two, and a unit for detecting the external force to be applied to the movable container segment by the driving device. At least the movable container segment is suspended from and retained by swingable or deflectable support members.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring flow rate of powders or granules forced out off the periphery of a loading table to fall down gravitationally. Deflector members arranged within the gravitational fall path of the powders or granules are subjected to a rotary force by impingement thereon of the powders or granules. Flow rate is measured as proportional to the moment for rotation.

Abstract: Apparatus including vibrating plates which are vibrated and oscillated to cause a powdered material placed thereon to flow down at a constant rate from the peripheral edges of the plates.

Abstract: A screening apparatus comprising a water receptacle, a screen frame mounted on the water receptacle with a screen covering the opening of the water receptacle, a sprinkler for sprinkling water into the screen frame and a vibrator for expanding and contracting air within the water receptacle to thereby vibrate the screen.