CASSETTE LOADER

PURPOSE:To enable a loading/unloading operation with a single hand and to improve the operation convenience by displacing a holder inclined at a state where a cassette tray is drawn out compulsorily from an inclined state to a horizontal state when the holder is drawn in. CONSTITUTION:In a system in which the cassette tray loading a cassette C is drawn out from or drawn in a recording and reproducing device main body, the device is comprised in such a way that the holder 40 of the cassette tray 30 holding the cassette C is inclined at a state where the cassette tray 30 is drawn out, and also, it is displaced compulsorily from the inclined state to the horizontal state when the tray is drawn in. Therefore, the cassette C can be easily loaded or taken out to the inclined holder from the front of a drawn out cassette tray 30. In such a way, it is possible to perform the loading or take-out operation of the cassette for the cassette tray 30 with the single hand, and to simply and easily perform the loading/unloading operation.