a head suspension mechanism of a recording apparatus for flexibly carrying a transducer in a floating state . the mechanism comprises a head slider , a load beam , a spring plate , and an adjusting screw . the load beam is composed of a rigid section , a resilient section , and a holding section . the head slider is suspended at the free end of the rigid section through a gimbal . the load beam is secured to a supporting arm of the head actuator of the apparatus at the holding section , and loaded by the spring plate at the resilient section . the load is easily and precisely adjustable using the adjusting screw . thus , the head slider contacts the disk at rest with a predetermined static load in order to maintain a favorable flying height of the head slider over the rotating disk . with the above configuration , the load provided by the spring plate is substantially increased as compared with the load to be applied to the head slider , enabling the easy and precise adjusting of the loading force .