Twin disk player

A twin disk player having a opening and closing door for mounting a pair of disks thereon, comprising:

• a pair of turn tables for rotating said pair of disks when said door is closed, each of said turn tables having a corresponding drive motor;
• a reversible driving motor for rotating a driving gear for controlling the opening and closing of said door;
• a first plurality of connecting gears responsive to said driving gear for rotating a pinion gear;
• said pinion gear for moving a moving rack and a driving rack;
• said driving rack for moving a reproduction pickup a first predetermined distance;
• said moving rack for engaging and rotating a cam gear means for raising a disk holder when said motor is controlling the opening of said door and lowers said disk holder when said reversible driving motor is controlling the closing of said door, said pinion gear moving rack a second predetermined distance;
• pushing means connected to said moving rack for rotating a rotating means for pushing a fitting means connected to said door for slightly opening said door;
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• an opening/shutting rack mounted to said door for engaging a second plurality of connecting gears for fully opening or closing said door, said second plurality of connecting gears being connected to said first plurality of connecting gears.

A twin disk player comprising:

• a pair of turntables each having a respective drive motor;
• a single reversible driving motor;
• a reproduction pickup;
• a disk holder and a disk holder raising and lowering means;
• a door and a door opening and shutting means;
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• means responsive to the reversible driving motor for controlling the reproduction pickup, the disk holder raising and lowering means and the door opening and shutting means, said means responsive to the reversible driving motor comprising a pair of racks for movement together, one of said pair of racks for driving said disk holder raising and lowering means and the other of said pair of racks for driving said reproduction pickup for disks on the turntables.

A twin disk player having a pair of turn tables and a pair of motors for driving the turntables on a main chassis, comprising:

• a reproduction pickup for reading data on a disk;
• a rack for driving said reproduction pickup;
• a single driving motor being able to rotate in both the clockwise and counterclockwise direction;
• transmitting means being engaged with a gear rotatably mounted on a shaft of said driving motor for transmitting the power of said driving motor;
• operating means being moved by said transmitting means for driving said reproduction pickup and for applying force on a disk holder raising and lowering means in dependence upon said movement;
• said disk holder raising and lowering means being rotated by the movement of said operating means, for raising and lowering a disk holder adapted to load a plurality of disks on the turntables;
• door opening and shutting means for moving a door between a door open state wherein the plurality of disks are loaded into the disk player and a door closed state to allow a pair of disks to be loaded onto the turntables, in response to the movement by said operating means, and
• said operating means comprising a moving rack for driving the disk holder raising and lowering means and said door opening and shutting means, and a driving rack being moved together with said moving rack for selectively driving said reproduction pickup.