Automatic cassette tape recording and reproducing apparatus with a pivotable magazine holder
AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasami Tomita, Seiji Kishikawa, Yoshinori Kakuta
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Abstract
An automatic cassette tape recording and reproducing apparatus having a plurality of cassettes mounted wherein any tape cassette for a reproducing or recording operation may be selected. The apparatus includes a swinging base with a revolving turntable having cassette holders, a turntable revolving mechanism for revolving the turntable when a cassette is selected, and a position detecting mechanism for positioning and identifying the cassette selected by the turntable revolving mechanism. The apparatus also includes a deck on which the selected cassette is mounted when the swinging base comes to a position for playing.
Claims7
A cassette tape recording/reproducing apparatus comprising:
- a magazine for removably housing a plurality of cassettes within cassette holders, said magazine having a turntable mounted therein upon a shaft fixed within said magazine, said cassette holders being secured to said turntable;
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- recording/reproducing means, for recording and reproducing data on and from said plurality of cassettes, said recording/reproducing means being disposed within a housing and comprising
- a first wall defining an opening adjacent a top portion of the housing, said magazine being insertable into said recording/reproducing means through the opening,
- head means, mounted in a lower portion of said housing, for recording and reproducing data on and from said plurality of cassettes,
- magazine holder means, pivotably mounted about an axis extending adjacent a second wall, which is opposite said first wall, for holding and selectively positioning said magazine within said recording/reproducing means, and
- solenoid means, for directly urging said magazine holder means downward pivotably about said axis towards said lower portion of said housing to position a selected one of said plurality of cassettes downward into contact with said head means.
A cassette tape recording and reproducing system comprising:
- magazine means for removably housing a plurality of cassettes therein in cassette holders mounted on a rotatable turntable;
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- recording/reproducing means, housed within a rectangular body which includes an opening in a front wall through which said magazine means is inserted, for recording and reproducing data on and from said plurality of cassettes, comprising
- head means, mounted on a base platform of said rectangular body, for recording and reproducing data on and from said plurality of cassettes,
- turntable rotating means, mounted upon said base platform adjacent a back wall which is disposed opposite said front wall, for rotating said rotatable turntable within said magazine means,
- pivotable magazine holder means, mounted to be pivotable about a horizontal shaft extending along said back wall of said rectangular body, for holding and selectively positioning said magazine means within said recording/reproducing means, and
- urging means, mounted upon said base platform and operatively coupled to an upper surface of said pivotable magazine holder means, for directly urging said pivotable magazine holder means downward about said horizontal shaft, to position a selected one of said plurality of cassettes into contact with said head means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.