RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE

摘要

PURPOSE: To obtain the recording and reproducing device equipped with a cas sette holder capable of easily ejecting a small cassette without shortening the depth of the cassette holder and also without detriment to a holding function for a large cassette even in the case where a difference between large and small cassettes in size is remarkably different. CONSTITUTION: The cassette holder is provided with a roller mechanism having rollers 26a and 27a capable of freely rotating forward and backward and bringing the upper surface of a tape cassette case into pressurized contact with the cassette holder. Then, the roller mechanism is capable of an operation of drawing and loading the tape cassette inserted from a cassette inserting hole 5 into the cassette holder in a standby position and an operation of ejecting out the tape cassette loaded in the cassette holder 7 in the standby position from the cassette inserting hole 5.