| 摘要 |
A loading mechanism for delivering a standard video cassette onto a pair of reel drive hubs of a video recorder/reproducer including an open shelf having a bottom, opposed side walls, and opposed top sections, the shelf being horizontally translatable under control of the cassette itself between a forward, cassette receiving position and a rearward position; means for sensing that both rear corners of the cassette have reached the rearward position and that the operator has released the cassette; means for lowering the shelf and the video cassette therein onto the reel drive hubs, the hubs extending through a pair of holes in the shelf bottom; a plurality of posts extending through holes in the shelf bottom, adjacent the four corners thereof, for contacting the bottom of the cassette in the lowered position of the shelf; means including the top shelf sections for clamping the side edges of the cassette onto the posts; and means operative when the shelf reaches the lowered position for momentarily applying a force to the top of the cassette, directly above the reels therein, to force the reels onto the reel drive hubs.
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