Automatically resettable toy phonograph assembly

Claim 1

An automatically resettable phonograph assembly comprising: a housing; a rotatable turntable mounted in said housing for rotation in a first position; a phonograph record mounted upon said turntable for rotation therewith, said record having at least one spiral groove formed therein with a starting position substantially at the periphery thereof and a predetermined terminal position; a tonearm located above said turntable and being pivotally connected at one end to said housing; a stylus connected to another end of said tonearm and adapted to engage said spiral groove; spring means for biasing the stylus end of said tonearm into said starting position; a speaker cone mounted on said housing above said tonearm with one end thereof adapted to contact said tonearm over a predetermined portion of said record extending from said starting position to said terminal position; a motor having a drive shaft; an endless belt entrained about said drive shaft and said turntable for rotating said turntable in response to the energization of said motor; means for pivotally urging said turntable against said stylus such that when said stylus reaches said predetermined terminal position said turntable is tilted into a predetermined second position relative to said first position; and means engaging said turntable in said predetermined second position for initially tilting said turntable past said first position and into a third predetermined inclined position so as to disengage said turntable from said tonearm thereby automatically returning said tonearm to said starting position and then repositioning said turntable into said first position.