IMPROVEMENTS IN PEGS FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENTS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, JAMES WALLIS of 133 and 135 Euston Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Musical Instrument Maker, do hereby declare the nature of said invention: for
IMPROVEMENTS IN PEGS FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENTS, a communication to me from
abroad by Carl Engert and Johann Glass, both of Leipzig, Germany, to be as:
follows:-
This invention relates to pegs for attaching the strings of violins and other
stringed instruments, and has for its object to secure such pegs more firmly to
various sizes of instruments, while allowing the same to be easily turned by hand
when required for tuning the strings,
For this purpose I make the peg or the base of the same conical and provide the
peg with a conical shield or bushing adapted to fit into one of the two wooden.
cheeks at the head of the violin between which the strings are attached. The said
shield is preferably made of metal and is serrated or otherwise roughened on its.
outside so as to prevent its being turned in the wood by turning the peg.
The peg is preferably made of metal, and vulcanite or other suitable material,
and the thin end is provided with a square passing through a bush fitted into the
other wooden cheek of the violin head, the extremity of the peg which projects.
over the bush being formed by a screw spindle over which fits a nut, so as to
enable the peg to be tightened and secured by turning said nut...
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page_text: I, JAMES WALLIS, of 133 and 135, Euston Road, Middlesex, Musical Instrument
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN PEGS
FOR STRINGED INSTRUMENTS; a communication to me from abroad by Carl Engert
and Johann Glass, both of Leipzig, Germany, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention relates to pegs for attaching the strings of violins and other
stringed instruments, and has for its object to secure such pegs more firmly to
various sizes of instruments, while allowing the same to be easily turned by hand
when required for tuning the strings.
For this purpose I make the peg or the base of the same conical and provide the
peg with a conical shield or bushing adapted to fit into one of the two wooden
cheeks at the head of the violin between which the strings are attached. The
said shield is preferably made of metal and is serrated or otherwise roughened on
its outside so as to prevent its being turned in the wood by turning the peg.
The peg is preferably made of metal and vulcanite or other suitable material,
and the thin end is provided with a bush fitted into the other wooden cheek of the
violin head. The extremity of the peg, which projects over the bush, being formed
by a screw spindle over which fits a nut, so as to enable the peg to be tightened and
secured by turning said nut.
The accompanying drawing illustrates a mode of performing the invention like
letters representing like parts Fig 1 is a front view and Fig 2 a side view of a
violin stock fitted with the improved pegs. Fig 3 is an enlarged sectional view of
peg and stock. Fig 4 is a key for adjusting the nut D. A is the peg. B is the
fixed conical shield or bushing fitted in one cheek of the stock or head and C is
another bush fitted in the opposite hole of the, stock.. D is a nut for tightening
with the key by means of the thread on the spindle E. It will be seen that the
pegs-work-and-are-adjusted.in bushes or thimbles fixed in each cheek of the head
stock and that the peg can also be made hollow and when adjusted can be fixed
by its internal spindle by means of the nut.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,
The shields bushings or thimbles B C combined with the hollow or other peg and
its internal spindle E with adjusting nut D, all substantially as described and.
illustrated and for the purposes set forth...
"Dated this 16th day of December 1884