Cassette loading apparatus for digital audio tape recorder

A cassette front loading apparatus for DAT of tray type which loads and unloads a cassette by moving horizontally and vertically is disclosed. Without utilizing separately the loading motor and the lift and drop motor for moving the cassette horizontally and lifting and dropping the same, with existing capstan motor only, the loading and unloading operation including the horizontal and vertical movement, slider opening movement, cassette take out movement and location detecting operation and the like are executed. Accordingly, the loading motor and the lift and drop motor and the number of parts are deleted, consequently all of the mechanism is very much simplified, therefore the preciseness and the durability are expected to be enhanced. Since all of the mechanism is simplified, the cost of the product is decreased and the assembling process became easier simultaneously the productivity is remarkably increased.