Toggle mechanism for video disc player

In a player for use with a disc record;

• said player including a turntable for centering and supporting said record;
• a mechanism for rotating said turntable;
• a pickup stylus for recovering prerecorded information from said record during playback;
• a carriage for supporting said pickup stylus;
• a mechanism for causing motion of said pickup stylus relative to said carriage between a depressed position, permitting stylus/record engagement, and an elevated position, precluding stylus/record engagement;
• a play belt for translating said carriage toward the center of said turntable at a speed correlated to the speed of rotation of said turntable;
• a search belt for translating said carriage toward and away from said turntable center at a speed independent of the speed of rotation of said turntable;
• apparatus comprising:
• (A) a mechanical toggle switch;
• (B) means for mounting said toggle switch to said carriage for motion between a first location, a second location and a third location;
• said toggle switch in said first location coupling said carriage to said play belt to the exclusion of said search belt;
• said toggle switch, when disposed in said second location, decoupling said carriage from said belts;
• said toggle switch, while occupying said third location, coupling said carriage to said search belt to the exclusion of said play belt;
• and
• (C) means for selectively actuating said toggle switch to occupy a selected one of said locations.