Apparatus having a plural cassette carrying tray, a head drum collision preventing guide member, and a pop-up mechanism arrangement

An apparatus includes a housing which incorporates a recording and reproducing function which includes a tape diving section, an opening portion formed in a front wall of the housing, and a tray unit which can be horizontally inserted and removed through the opening portion and in which first and second cassettes can be arranged on top surfaces of front and back regions, respectively. A cassette driving unit including pantagraph mechanisms and, a motor for driving the tray, and gears to move the tray unit and selectively load one of the cassettes in the tape driving section. Pop-up mechanisms and provided in the front and back regions of the tray, respectively. When the tray unit is pulled and the entire front region and a portion of the back region are located outside said housing, the pop-up mechanisms lift the front end of the cassette loaded in the back region to direct it toward an obliquely upper position.