DISK CARTRIDGE STORAGE REQUIRING GREATER WITHDRAWAL THAN INSERTION FORCE

摘要

A disk cartridge storage apparatus of a structure which can facilitate insertion of a disk cartridge into a stocker while positively preventing the cartridge once placed at a predetermined storage position from jutting out or dislodgement. The stocker has a pair of opposite side walls for slidably accommodating the cartridge. The opposite side walls are provided with retaining members for holding the cartridge at the storage position in combination with biasing members for resiliently biasing the retaining members to engage in retaining recesses which are formed in opposite side surfaces of the cartridge, respectively. The retaining member is so constructed that an effort required for inserting the cartridge into the stocker is smaller than that required for withdrawing the cartridge from the stocker.