Cassette tape recording/reproducing apparatus

Abstract

A cassette tape recording/reproducing apparatus which is so adapted that after a cassette is horizontally pushed deep into a pack guide, the pack guide is lowered in a vertical direction to set the cassette in a recording/reproducing position on a bottom plate of the apparatus, which apparatus is characterized in: that an ejecting plate and a slide plate are provided along the pack guide so as to slide in the forward and the backward direction of the apparatus, and a lock plate is provided for locking the ejecting plate and the slide plate in their retired positions, respectively, said lock plate being adapted to lock, at a time, either one of the ejecting plate and the slide plate, preventing the same from moving and allow the other to move forwardly or backwardly; that a power plate is provided also along the pack guide, which plate is movable in the forward and the backward direction of the apparatus, provided with a set spring for normally urging the power plate in the retreating direction, and engageable with the slide plate through a rack-pinion mechanism, and means for releasing the engagement between the slide plate and the power plate when the cassette is ejected is provided; that the slide plate has an ejecting spring for normally urging the slide plate in the advancing direction, the force of which is smaller than that of the set spring provided on the power plate; and that the ejecting plate is interlocked with a mechanism for lowering or raising the pack guide so that the pack guide is lowered or raised according to the advance or retreat of the ejecting plate.

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