Disc player for a rigid information-carrying disc

Claim 1

A disc player for a rigid information-carrying disc, which player comprises a disc holder on which the information-carrying disc rotates during information transfer, which disc holder comprises a turntable and a centering device, which device comprises a plurality of centering elements which are arranged along a circle and which are each resilient in a radial direction so that the centering elements, which act on the wall of the center hole in the disc, keep the disc centered during its rotation, which player further comprises a lid which is movable between an open and a closed position and which carries a disc loader, the disc being resiliently urged onto the centering device and the turntable by means of a disc loader when the lid is moved to the closed position, characterized in that the lid is movable from the open position to the closed position in two stages, the lid being coupled to lifting means which after a first stage of the closing movement of the lid, in which the disc loader resiliently urges the disc onto the centering device and the turntable, lifts the lid in a second stage until the disc loader is again clear of the information-carrying disc which is clamped onto the centering device, the disc being kept in a centered position on the turntable by a radially outward resilient deflection of the resilient centering elements, said centering elements being constructed as U-shaped members, whose inner limbs are connected to each other and whose outer limbs deflect resiliently outwards.