Abstract: A cassette changer is mountable on a magnetic recording-reproduction apparatus having a cassette inlet-outlet opening. The cassette changer includes a cassette shifter which shifts a new cassette from a stand-by position above the cassette inlet-outlet opening to an insertion position facing the cassette inlet-outlet opening, and a cassette mover which inserts and withdraws a cassette into and from the magnetic recording-reproduction apparatus through the cassette inlet-outlet opening. The cassette mover is provided with a pair of rollers on both sides of the cassette, a roller shifter which shifts the rollers between an operative position to come into contact with the sides of the cassette to insert and withdraw the cassette and an inoperative position displaced from the sides of the cassette to allow the cassette to be shifted by the cassette shifter; and a roller driver which drives the rollers in forward and backward directions to insert and withdraw the cassette.

Abstract: A cassette changer is mountable on a magnetic recording-reproduction apparatus having a cassette inlet-outlet opening. The cassette changer includes a new cassette housing portion for housing a new cassette to be inserted into the cassette inlet-outlet opening for recording or reproduction, a processed cassette housing portion provided below the new cassette housing portion for housing a processed cassette discharged from the cassette inlet-outlet opening after recording or reproduction, and a separator provided in a boundary portion of the new cassette housing portion and the processed cassette housing portion.

Abstract: A cassette changer for automatically inserting and discharging (changing) tape cassettes for a magnetic recording-reproduction apparatus of the front loading type, such as a video tape recorder. The cassette changer has a cassette discharge path for discharging a cassette along a slope when the cassette is ejected from the cassette inlet-outlet opening of the apparatus after recording or reproduction, a cassette insertion path intersecting the discharge path in front of the opening for guiding a new cassette along a horizontal plane into the opening for recording or reproduction, and a separator disposed at the intersection for alternately opening the paths for the discharge and insertion of the cassette.