IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF RENDERING THE ORDINARY FIELD OR REGULATION BUGLE CHROMATIC
Year: 1855

page_text: - LETTERS PATENT to Henry John Distin, of No. 31, Cranbourn Street,
in the County of Middlesex, Musical Instrument Maker, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF RENDERING THE ORDINARY FIELD OR
REGULATION BUGLE CHROMATIC."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry John Distin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th
June 1855.
I, HENRY JOHN DISTIN, of No. 31, Craubourn Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Musical Instrument Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF RENDERING THE ORDINARY
FIELD OR REGULATION BUGLE CHROMATIC" to be as follows:-
I insert the arrangement as shewn in Figure 1 in the accompanying
Drawing, or other suitable chromatic arrangement, in the ordinary regulation
or field bugle (No. 2), so that when the arrangement is so inserted the
bugle will be chromatic, as shewn in Figure 3. I do not claim the Invention
of the bugle or the chromatic arrangement taken separately, but I claim as
my Invention the combination above described for the purposes aforesaid.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry John Distin in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th December 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JOHN DISTIN, of No. 31, Cranbourn Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Musical Instrument Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent. Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry John Distin, Her special licence that I, the said Henry John Distin,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
John Distin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF
RENDERING THE ORDINARY FIELD OR REGULATION BUGLE CHROMATIC," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry John Distin, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describ
and ascertain the nature, of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry John Distin, do hereby déclare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing, and to the
figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say):-
The accompanying Drawing, Figure 1, shews an ordinary field or regulation
bugle, with a common mouth-piece A inserted therein at the neck B in the
usual way; Figure 2 shews a chromatic arrangement with the ordinary pistons
and cylinders; and Figure 3 shews a field or regulation bugle with a chromatic
arrangement instead of a common mouth-piece inserted at the neck B. In
order, therefore, to render an ordinary field or regulation bugle chromatic,
according to my Invention, I insert an arrangement, such as is shewn, for
example, in Figure 2, or other suitable chromatic arrangement, in the neck B
of the bugle. For convenience of explanation, I have shewn in the Drawing

page_text: my pattern of the regulation bugle as approved and adopted by Her Majesty's
Board of Ordnance, but my Invention is equally applicable to bugles of other
patterns.
I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not hereby claim the bugle,
Figure 1, or any other bugle, or the chromatic arrangement, Figure 2, or any
other chromatic arrangement, or any part thereof taken separately, as my
Invention; but that I claim as my new Invention, the particular combination
of Figures 1 and 2 above described, and as shewn in Figure 3, for the purposes
aforesaid. The precise form or construction of the chromatic arrangement
and of the bugle, or either of them, may be varied as convenience may
require, without any departure from the nature or principle of my said
Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry John Distin, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
HENRY JOHN DISTIN. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-named
Henry John Distin, in the presence of
H. WICKENS,
Solicitor for Patents,
4, Tokenhouse Yard, Bank,
London.