Recording and/or reproducing device having compact drive means for actuating means for the actuation of holder means for a cassette

A recording and/or reproducing device for receiving a cassette, said cassette comprising a housing and a drivable record carrier accommodated in the housing, said record carrier being drivable by record carrier drive means through an opening in a bottom wall of the housing, wherein said recording and/or reproducing device comprises:

• holder means for holding the cassette, said holder means being movable between a loading position, in which the cassette is loaded into the holder means, and an operating position, in which the cassette occupies an operating position;
• actuating means coupled to the holder means, said actuating means being movable parallel to a direction of movement causing the holder means to be moved between the loading position and the operating position;
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• record carrier drive means for driving the record carrier of the inserted cassette when the holder means, together with the inserted cassette, occupies the operating position, characterized in that the actuating means comprises two actuating slides each extending parallel to the direction of movement, one of said two actuating slides being situated at one side with respect to the record carrier drive means, and the other of said two actuating slides being situated at the other side with respect to the record carrier drive means, and said recording and/or reproducing device further comprises drive means having a motor and a ring-shaped drive wheel drivable by the motor, the ring-shaped drive wheel being disposed between the two actuating slides of the actuating means, and the ring-shaped drive wheel lying around the record carrier drive means at the level of the ring-shaped drive wheel.