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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 1977
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1975
Takamichi Nakagawa, Katano, JA;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JA;
Abstract
An automatic record player comprising: a switch lever for turning on a switch for energizing a motor by manually moving a starting lever to the starting side; a pickup-fixing plate for operating the switch lever to turn on the switch when the pickup arm is manually brought to a position from which record-playing starts; an automatic record-playing mechanism for automatically bringing the pickup arm to the starting position when the starting lever is moved to the starting side and for automatically returning the pickup to its home position upon completion of record playing; a record changer mechanism for dropping a plurality of records set around a changer spindle onto a turntable one by one in cooperative relation with the automatic record-playing mechanism; and a repeating mechanism for setting the number of operations of the automatic record-playing mechanism and the record changer mechanism to be repeated; thereby enabling the player to perform automatic playing of a single record, automatic sequential playing of a plurality of records by mounting the changer spindle, manual playing of a record by manually bringing the pickup arm to the starting position, automatic repeat playing a desired number of times of a single record by using the repeating mechanism, and automatic sequential playing of a desired number of records of all records set around the changer spindle by use of the repeating mechanism.