Patent ID: 6927329
Filing Date: 2005-08-09
Classification: G10D

Abstract:
1. A shoulder rest for use with a violin or a violin-like instrument, the shoulder rest including an elongated, slightly curved base including two equal half portions, each half portion including an elongated, lengthwise extended, central channel, an enlarged hole at one end of the channel distal from one end of the base, a guide rail along either side of the base, and a rack rail at either side of the channel, and two equal half sections, each half section comprising: clamping means for engaging with a side wall of a body of the violin, the clamping means comprising a downwardly extending threaded stem; substantially L-shaped support means comprising a vertical bifurcation including a gradually enlarged opening, a substantially half-circular cavity, and two junctions between the gradually enlarged opening and the cavity, a horizontal foot portion having two side flanges, a projecting leg opposite the bifurcation, a transverse pin at an open end of the leg, the pin having a length about equal to a diameter of the enlarged hole, a pair of latched members projected from an underside of the foot portion, and two spaced toothed stops at both sides of the latched members; and disk-shaped pivotal means comprising a body member having a top hole for threadedly receiving the stem, a snapping element in spaced, parallel relationship with the body member wherein a distance between the snapping element and the body member is about a thickness of the bifurcation, and a cylindrical enlargement interconnected centers of the body member and the snapping element, the enlargement being rotatably fitted in the cavity with the bifurcation being sandwiched by the body member and the snapping element, whereby inserting the pin through the enlarged hole, and pressing the support means to insert the latched members through the channel for slidably fastening thereat with the flanges being mounted to the guide rails and the stops being engaged with teeth of the rack rail provides the support means to move along the channel.