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US 4,361,884 AGranted
Video disc player having click mechanism
AssigneeRCA Corporation
InventorPhilip E. O'Connell
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Abstract
A video disc player is provided with a mechanism for providing an audible click just as the record caddy arrives at a fully inserted position in the player.
Claims6
In a record player for recovering prerecorded information from a disc record subject to removable occupancy of a protective caddy;
- an occupied caddy being inserted into said player along a path to load an enclosed record therein;
- said player being provided with a record extracting mechanism for removing an enclosed record from said caddy for retention in said player during the withdrawal of the caddy sleeve subsequent to the arrival of an occupied caddy at a fully inserted location along said path in said player;
- apparatus comprising:
- (A) a sensing lever subject to engagement with said caddy at an intermediate location along said path during the insertion of said caddy into said player;
- motion of said caddy from said intermediate location to said fully inserted location effecting displacement of said sensing lever;
- (B) means, responsive to said displacement of said sensing lever, for providing an audible indication as said caddy reaches said fully inserted location in said player;
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- (C) means for returning said sensing lever to a starting position upon the caddy withdrawal.
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In a record player for recovering prerecorded information from a disc record subject to removable occupancy of a protective caddy;
- an occupied caddy being inserted into said player along a path to load an enclosed record therein;
- said player being provided with a record extracting mechanism for removing an enclosed record from said caddy for retention in said player during the withdrawal of the caddy sleeve subsequent to the arrival of an occupied caddy at a fully inserted location along said path in said player;
- apparatus comprising:
- (A) first means subject to engagement with said caddy at a given location along said path during the insertion of said caddy into said player;
- and
- (B) second means responsive to said engagement of said first means and said caddy for providing an audible indication when said caddy reaches said fully inserted location in said player.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.