Simplified record player capable of automatically housing reproducing stylus upon removal of record disc from the record player

In a simplified record player comprising a record holding portion for holding a record member without permitting its rotation, a turn table attached with an integrally formed speaker in coaxial and back-to-back relation thereto is received by a center pin disposed upright on the casing at an integrally formed sleeve capable of being axially moved along said center pin, a vibrating blade attached to said speaker in a manner surrounding but without contacting said sleeve of said turn table for receiving the center pin, a sound transmitting bar extending above and along said turn table substantially connected to said speaker by being attached at its middle part to said vibrating blade, a tone arm swingably disposed on said turn table and being slidably supported by said sound transmitting bar capable of begin swung while sliding on said sound transmitting bar capable of being swung while sliding on said sound transmitting bar and with its sound reproducing stylus directed to said record member, said turn table being connected to a drive means and normally urged by spring means toward the recorded face of said record member, the improvement comprising:

• a. said turn table including on its central portion a boss having a height higher than the tip end of said reproduction stylus, a guide hole on the upper central portion and a recessed portion formed in the side wall of said boss;
• b. means for biasing said tone arm toward said boss such that said sound reproduction stylus can be received in said recessed portion of said boss;
• c. said record member including at its central bottom portion an annular concave portion adapted to receive at least the upper portion of said boss of the turn table, and a projecting rod formed on the center portion of said concave portion of said record member and adapted to be inserted into said guide hole of said boss;
• d. said record holding portion comprises means for locking said record member in an axial direction;
• e. a pusher slidably attached around said center pin which is advanced by being pushed by said projecting rod;
• f. a head disposed at the lower end of said pusher for urging said tone arm outward from said recessed portion of said boss by a wedge action given by an inclined surface against said biasing means after said record member has been placed on said record holding portion but immediately before said record member is fixed by said locking means;
• and whereby
• a necessary stylus force to be imparted to said sound reproducing stylus being engaged with the recorded groove of said record member after having been pushed out from said recessed portion of said boss is assured by a cooperative action of said biasing means urging said turn table toward said recorded face and said member having been fixed to said record holding portion.