Record cleaning mechanism

Cleaning mechanism for phonograph disc records, comprising a carrier, support means for positioning the carrier over a disc record groove when the latter is in operative location on a turntable and adapted to enable movement of the carrier in said operative location of the record in a direction generally towards the axis of rotation of the record, and a probe mounted on the carrier, said probe being a unitary element and generally rod-like and having a relatively stiff, hard wearing tip part which engages within the record groove at or substantially at the bottom of the groove, and a mounting part substantially longer than the tip part, extending from the tip part and supported on the carrier at a location remote from the tip part so as to impart flexibility to the mounting part, the mounting part and the tip part being mutually inclined so that, in operation, the mounting part is in a trailing attitude whilst the tip part is inclined at an acute angle relatively to the record with respect to the direction of travel of the point on the record engaged by the tip part, so as to maintain during rotation of the record a bulldozing action by the tip part to raise noise inducing particles out of the record groove, whilst the mounting part, through flexure thereof, enables the tip part to surmount obstructions in the groove.