Disc player

Abstract

A disc player has a slide table mounted to slide horizontally into and out of a casing, a disc tray supported rotatably on the slide table and having a plurality of recessed disc storage areas arranged about its center of rotation to store a plurality of discs on its top surface a drive mechanism for rotating the disc tray and halting it at predetermined positions, an optical pickup and a turntable disposed within the casing at a play position for reproducing the disc placed at the play position by the disc tray, and a loading mechanism for displacing the slide table and controlling rotation of the disc tray so that, when the slide table is displaced from a first position outside of the casing to a second position within the casing, the foremost disc storage area of the disc tray in the first position is rotated to the play position in the second position. Further, the optical pickup and the turntable are moved upward by the loading mechanism with respect to the disc tray when the slide table is moved to the second position so that the disc set at the play position is held between the turntable and a disc presser while being kept afloat from the disc tray.

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