LOADING DEVICE FOR TAPE-LIKE BODY

PURPOSE:To reduce the capacity of a blower by loading a tape-like body along a loading passage and blowing air for carrying the tape-like body to an extremely small part of the tape-like body along the outer peripheral passage of a drum arranged on the way of the loading passage. CONSTITUTION:The tip 4a of a magnetic tape 4 is delivered from the terminal end 9b of the loading passage 9 in a lower arrow (h) direction and allowed to approach a hub 6a of a winding reel 6. When the reel 6 is manually or automatically rotated in an arrow (i) direction, the tip 4a is automatically sucked and wound to/around the periphery of the hub 6a by the sucking force of air sucked in an arrow (b) direction from the outside to the inside. The magnetic tape 4 is dropped by its own weight, and when the tip 4a reaches the hub 6b, air is blown out from an air outlet 29 to an inlet part 9d of the peripheral passage 9c in an arrow (a) direction by the action of the blower 30 and the air is sucked in an arrow (b) direction, so that loading can be attained by the small quantity of air.