Quick replay device

A quick replay device comprising a relatively small disk adapted to be situated on a turntable of a record player coaxially with a record which is situated beneath said disk, the latter having an outer periphery situated inwardly of the innermost groove of the record, said disk pivotally carrying a lever which is situated on top of said disk, and said disk having a stop while also carrying a spring which acts on said lever to urge the latter against said stop, and said lever when engaging said stop having a free hook end extending slightly beyond the outer periphery of said disk, the record player having a pickup arm which carries a stylus which when playing a record starts at an outer groove of the latter and progresses toward the innermost groove thereof, said pickup arm carrying a pin which engages said hook end of said lever when the stylus is at the innermost groove of the record, said disk being formed beneath said lever with a recess and said lever having a pointed projection extending into said recess of said disk when said spring holds said lever against said stop, the rotating turntable, when said pin of said pickup arm engages said hook end of said lever, causing the latter to be displaced away from said stop in opposition to said spring while said projection moves out of said recess and along an upper surface of said disk, so that said lever raises said pickup arm at said stylus thereof away from the record and while turning away from said stop displaces said pickup arm back toward said outer groove of the record, the length of said lever being such that when the stylus is again aligned with the outer groove of the record the hook end of said lever moves beyond said pin of said pickup arm so that the latter descends to again have its stylus situated in the outer groove of the record, while the separation of said lever from said pin of said pickup arm releases said lever to said spring to be returned thereby to a position engaging said stop, so that when the stylus again reaches the innermost groove of the record, the above operations will be automatically repeated whereby the record will be continuously replayed, the radial distance of the pivot axis of said lever from the axis of said disk and the distance from said pivot axis to said pointed projection being slightly greater than the radius of said disk, and said lever assuming a position when the stylus is situated over the outer groove of the record where said projection is situated slightly beyond said periphery of said disk, so that when the stylus is returned to the outer groove of the record not only does the hook end of the lever move beyond said pin of said pickup arm but also the projection becomes situated beyond the periphery of said disk so that the lever moves back down toward said disk to contribute also to the release of said lever by moving back down toward said disk when the stylus again engages the outer groove of the record.