Automatic disk player with stackable disk storage boxes

Claim 1

A disk player with a front facing control panel for preselecting stored disks, and for automatic disk selection, comprising a plurality of stackable disk storage boxes with front and rear areas, and having at least one pair of multiple stages for storing disks one above the other on disk-carrying trays in disk-storing portions of said storage boxes having front access for ease of loading and changing disks by a user of said disk player, and rear access for playing one of said disks; each said tray being substantially U-shaped with a semi-circular shaped disk-mounting portion for supporting in place at the front area of said boxes a disk stored thereon, and each said disk-carrying tray having an opening at the rear area thereof; said openings at the rear areas facing a clear space extending throughout the total height of the storage boxes, and each storage box having a pair of rack members on the inner side surfaces of each said storage box forming continuous guide tracks; and said disk player including an electrical-mechanical system for powering said disk player and transferring sequentially a disk to and from a disk-playing device; said disk stackable storage boxes being stacked atop one another in alignment with a base box; a carrier, supporting said disk-playing device, vertically moveable through said clear space along said continuous guide tracks formed by said pairs rack members; each of said disk-storing portions having one of said disk-carrying trays and a disk-carrying tray retracting means; and said disk playing device mounted on said carrier so as to move both vertically in said clear space, and horizontally from right to left and vice-versa along the rear areas of said at least one pair of multiple stages of said storage boxes to respective positions corresponding to preselected stored disks, and being adapted for playing sequentially each preselected disk transferred from a disk-carrying tray in any one of said storage boxes to said disk-playing device, whereby said disk player is adapted to play automatically a continuous series of preselected disks in a manner similar to that of a "conventional juke box" playing in series a plurality of preselected records.