plate 30 at the same time the winding hubs come free of the retaining lugs so that the cassettes can be removed from the front little dexterity is required to replace the cassettes as they can simply be placed onto the lifting element then the front plate 30 of the slider member is pushed into the outer housing this causes the rims 56 to be pressed downwards by a wedge action against the front edge of the top wall 12 of the housing the device according to fig1 3 has been described very thoroughly with regard to certain details such as guides stops and ejection springs therefore only the particular characteristic details of the other embodiments are described in the device of fig4 unlike that of fig1 to 3 the slider member is constructed iadd designed iaddend for the accommodation of two magnetic tape cassettes for example standardized video cassettes the lifting element 80 is provided with a separating bar 81 the locking arrangement is located approximately in the center of the front plate of the slider member in addition the slider member is guided by means of its side plates 82 on the side walls of the housing rather than the rail arrangement on the base of the housing of the embodiment according to fig1 3 fig5 to 7 illustrate three ways of actuating the lifting element 80 to a position in which the cassettes can be easily inserted and removed in fig5 the lifting element is connected to the slider member 84 by means of a pivot joint 83 and a leaf spring 79 leaf spring 79 is fastened at one.