Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus of the rotating head type in which a magnetic tape is drawn out from a tape cassette by means of tape lead-out pins and brought into close contact with a head cylinder containing rotating heads. Each of the tape lead-out pins is mounted on a slide member which is adapted to be driven by a drive means and slideably guided along a guide path consisting of a guide slot formed in a base plate of the apparatus. With such arrangement, the guide path need not coincide with the path of the driving means, whereby the tape loading mechanism and hence the apparatus as a whole can be small in size.

Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic tape recording and reproducing apparatus or video tape recorder apparatus in which a magnetic tape is drawn out from a tape cassette by means of tape lead-out pins and brought into close contact with a head cylinder containing rotating heads. Each of the tape lead-out pins is mounted on a movable base having an engaging member which is adapted to bear against a first stopper for defining a limit of the tape lead-out movement of the movable base in the horizontal direction, while the movements of the movable base in the vertical direction are limited by a second stopper and lateral movements of the base are restricted by a third stopper, whereby the movable bases each having a tape lead-out pin are positively constrained at predetermined positions after the tape has been drawn out from the tape cassette.