Apparatus for driving loading gears in a video cassette-tape recorder

Claim 1

A loading gear driving apparatus of a video cassette tape recorder comprising: a cam including a spiral cam slot on its lower surface; an activating plate having a first engaging pin adapted to engage said cam slot, and guiding slots and to enable said activating plate to slidably move on guiding pins fixed on a base plate; a sector gear including a gear portion along one end of said sector gear and a rectilinear contact portion and curved engaging portion at a second end of said sector gear, interlocked with a loading gear and mounted on an axial pin fixed on the base plate; an auxiliary plate mounted on said axial pin upon said sector gear and having a curved engaging portion, rectilinear contact portion , and protrusion along its peripheral surface; and means for interconnecting said auxiliary plate protrusion and a protrusion fixed on said sector gear with a biasing force, said auxiliary plate having an arcuate slot adapted to enable said plate to slidably move on a guiding pin fixed on said sector gear with said axial pin in the center, said activating plate having a second engaging pin adapted to engage between said sector gear and said auxiliary plate engaging portions and to move along said sector gear and said auxiliary plate rectilinear contact portions, whereby said activating plate first engaging pin moves along said cam slot and causes said activating plate second engaging pin to engage either said sector gear curved engaging portion for rotating a loading gear in a first direction or said auxiliary plate curved engaging portion for rotating a loading gear in a second direction.