Patent ID: 6870703

Claim:
A cassette transport apparatus for feeding a cassette to a cassette drive, comprising: a shuttle having a cassette support surface; a drive connected to said shuttle and operable to move said shuttle alone a path; a storage slot disposed at said path; a cassette recording and/or playback apparatus at said path; and a cassette transfer apparatus operable to move a cassette over said cassette support surface so as to move the cassette into said cassette recording and/or playback apparatus when said shuttle is positioned by said drive at said cassette recording and/or playback apparatus and to move the cassette into said storage slot when said shuttle is positioned by said drive at said storage slot, said cassette transfer apparatus being operable to move the cassette in four directions from said shuttle, said cassette transfer apparatus including belts mounted in said cassette support surface of said shuttle wherein said cassette transfer apparatus includes a tab on each of said belts.