Gramophone record distributing devices for gramophone record changers

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION WITH A TURNTABLE HAVING A FLAT RECORD BEARING SURFACE: A SPINDLE CONCENTRIC WITH SAID TURNTABLE AND PROVIDED WITH RADIAL OPENINGS SPACED FROM SAID SURFACE, CRESCENT SHAPED RECORD TRANSFERRING ELEMENTS IN SAID OPENINGS AND EXTENDING THEREFROM TO SUPPORT A STACK OF RECORDS DEPOSITED ON SAID SPINDLE, SAID CRESCENT SHAPED ELEMENTS EACH HAVING EXTREMITIES CONSTITUTING SPACED LIMBS ADAPTED FOR EXTENDING OUTWARDLY OF SAID SPINDLE AND FOR STRADDLING INDIVIDUALLY ALL OF THE RECORDS IN SAID STACK, ONE OF SAID LIMBS BEING POSITIONED ABOVE THE OTHER, MEANS ROCKABLY SUPPORTING SAID ELEMENTS AND NORMALLY SUPPORTING THE SAME SO THAT THE LOWER OF SAID LIMBS IS EXTENDED AND THE UPPER RETRACTED SO THAT SAID STACK IS SUPPORTED ON THE LOWER LIMBS, AND MEANS FOR ROCKING SAID ELEMENTS SO THAT THE UPPER LIMBS ARE INSERTED BETWEEN THE LOWERMOST RECORD AND THE REMAINDER OF THE STACK AND THE LOWER LIMBS ARE RETRACTED WHEREBY SAID REMAINDER IS SUPPORTED IN POSITION AND SAID LOWERMOST RECORD IS DROPPED ONTO SAID TURNTABLE, THE LATTER SAID MEANS SEQUENTIALLY ROCKING SAID ELEMENTS TO EXTEND AND RETRACT THE LOWER AND UPPER LIMBS RESPECTIVELY WHEREBY SAID STACK IS LOWERED ONTO SAID LOWERMOST LIMBS.