Patent ID: 9489929
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G10D

Claim Text:
1. An improved tuning and tensioning apparatus for an electric guitar equipped with a tremolo system wherein the electric guitar has a guitar body, neck, headstock, tremolo bar, and tremolo bridge, tensioners and tensioning posts, and a plurality of guitar strings disposed between said tremolo bridge and said tensioning posts, said guitar strings passing through a nut on said neck of said guitar adjacent said headstock, said nut defining the upper intonation point of said guitar, said tremolo bridge defining said lower intonation point, said improved tuning and tensioning apparatus comprising: a lug guide having an outer surface and an inner surface, said inner surface abutting said neck of said guitar below said headstock, said lug guide having an upstanding nut on its lower end, said nut having a plurality of grooves on an upper surface, said lug guide having a plurality of lug receptacles formed on its upper end, each said receptacle having an opening on said upper end for slidable insertion of a heaving lug, each such lug receptacle having a longitudinal slotted groove formed between said lug receptacle and said outer surface of said lug guide; a plurality of heaving lugs, each heaving lug having a first lower end and a second upper end, and a longitudinal upper fin, each heaving lug slidably receivable within said lug receptacle, said upper longitudinal fin slidably received within said longitudinal slotted groove of said lug receptacle each heaving lug formed with a throughbore extending from a first lower end to said longitudinal upper fin for the insertion and frictional engagement of a guitar string passing over said nut and into said throughbore, said heaving lug having an extension arm for the removable receipt of a fastening rod positioned on a second upper end; a plurality of pivot clamps, frictionally engageable with said tensioning posts formed on said headstock and associated with said tensioners, each of said pivot clamps having an arm extension for receipt of a fastening rod; a plurality of fastening rods in the form of pulling tynes, removably securable between said second upper end of said heaving lugs and said extension arm of said pivot clamp.