Abstract: A device for introducing and ejecting a cassette in a cassette tape recorder, in which a cassette with its narrow side is pushed into a slot on the front of the cassette tape recorder, whereby a dead center spring is tensioned, which after passing the dead center causes the cassette to be pulled into a cassette lift, subsequently to which the cassette lift and the cassette are placed on the drive mechanism vertically with the slide-in motion by means of an operating element and that the cassette lift can be moved away from the drive mechanism by displacing the operating element in the opposite direction, said element being one and the same, and that connecting elements are provided between the operating element and the dead center spring, which displace the dead center of the spring in such a manner that the cassette is ejected. Thus the cassette lift merely requires one operating element for the introducing and ejecting of the cassette.

Abstract: A tape recorder, particularly a cassette recorder, comprising two reels for rewinding and unwinding a tape, sound recording and reproducing means, a driving system for moving the reels in two tape run directions, a braking system for the reels, control buttons (such as forward transport, pause, start, stop, record, rewind buttons) designed to set an appropriate function sequence for the recorder, and an electric control system which controls the given function sequence as a function of the actuated buttons. The control buttons are arranged at the front of the recorder and are assigned slides which extend over the length of the recorder unit containing the mechanical constituents such as tape-up spools, driving mechanism, as far as corresponding contacts of the electric control system.