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Abstract

A cleaning device for cleaning a magnetic recording head in a tape drive, which receives a single-reel cartridge therein and from which magnetic recording tape is extracted and engaged with a take-up reel in the tape drive, the assembly used to extract the tape from the cartridge and engage it with the take-up reel has bristles thereon which pass by the magnetic recording head and brush the magnetic recording head during each threading and de-threading procedure between the cartridge and the take-up reel. The threading and de-threading can be uninterrupted, or can be paused at a point where the bristles are in contact with the magnetic recording head, and either of the bristles being caused to oscillate during the pause, or the magnetic recording head being moved during the pause, to brush the magnetic recording head to clean it. The magnetic recording head thus is cleaned automatically every time a cartridge is loaded into the tape drive.

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