Abstract

A mode changing over mechanism for a tape player which can change over the mode of operation of the tape recorder with a simple structure and can be constructed in a small size and thickness at a low cost. The mechanism comprises a direction slider movable among normal and reverse mode positions and a stopping position, a trigger member having an engaging portion movable between arresting and non-arresting positions, and a rotatable cam gear having a cam section having normal and reverse mode pressing faces for pressing a control portion of the direction slider in the opposite directions. When the engaging portion is at the arresting position, the cam gear is inhibited from rotating at a position when a play mode or a stop mode is established. When the engaging portion is moved once to the non-arresting position in a stop mode, the normal mode pressing face presses the control portion to move the direction slider to the normal mode position, but when movement of the engaging portion to the nonarresting position is performed twice at a predetermined interval of time, the reverse mode pressing face presses the control portion to move the direction slider to the reverse mode position.