Guide for phono-pick-up

Claim 1

A guide for a phono-pick-up device having an arm carrying a needle and counterweight at opposite ends thereof, said arm being turnably supported about a pivot intermediate its ends, said guide comprising: an elongated rectilinear guidEway comprising magnetic circuit means terminating at oppositely facing pole pieces of opposing polarities: a magnetic guidepiece having a longitudinal axis and freely movable in the direction of its axis along said guideway, said guidepiece having oppositely facing pole pieces of opposite polarity, each pole piece of said guidepiece being spaced apart from, but configured to interlock with, an opposite polarity pole piece of said guideway, whereby there is only limited freedom of movement of said guidepiece, either laterally with respect to, or rotary about, its longitudinal axis; said magnetic circuit means and said magnetic guidepiece generating magnetic forces cooperating to hold said guidepiece anywhere in said guideway in a certain hovering disposition in which said guidepiece has lateral clearance from, and is completely out of contact with, said guideway; and, said guidepiece carrying said pivot on which said arm is turnably supported for permitting the needle on said arm to move in tracking relation with the spiral grooves in a record disc, with the needle being horizontally spaced from said guidepiece when tracking a record disc.