Record playing device having multiple records being played continuously

Claim 1

Record play-back device with two record magazines lying opposite one another, each one for accommodating a stack of records consisting of records lying over one another, with a play-back unit below and between the record magazines, having a transport mechanism capable of moving in a direction of each stack of records, said mechanism including, in the transverse direction between the two stacks of records, a mobile transverse sliding carriage that transports a desired record from a record magazine to the play-back unit and from the play-back unit to the record magazine between a place within the record magazine and the play-back unit, wherein each record magazine (2, 2a)displays for each record (3) at least one holder element (20 to 22a) releasably accommodating an outer rim (3a) of the record, and that the transverse sliding carriage (9) includes at least on gripping arrangement (12a), which seizes the desired record (3) at the record rim (3a) and, with movement of the transverse sliding carriage (9), releases it from the holder element (20 to 22a) of the record magazine (2, 2a), the transverse sliding carriage (9) includes a first gripping arrangement (12a) directed toward the first record magazine (2) and a second gripping arrangement (12b) directed toward the second record magazine (2a), both gripping arrangements (12a, 12b) being fixedly attached adjacent each other at the sliding carriage (9) and being constructed as an upper and a lower gripping jaw (13, 14), said gripping jaws (13, 14) having a periphery, as seen in the vertical direction, that corresponds to a predetermined section of a periphery of the record rim (3a) of the records (3) contained in the first and the second record magazines (2, 2a), respectively.