Improvements in Tune-sheets for Automatic Musical Instruments.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 11th May, 189
Complete Specification Left, 30th May, 1894-Accepted, 7th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tune-sheets for Automatic Musical Instruments.
I, AUGUST AMTHOR, of 91 Burggasse, Waltershausen, Thuringia, Germany,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to tune-sheets for automatic musical instruments.
In the accompanying illustrative drawings,
Fig. 1 represents a tune-sheet constructed according to my invention;
Figs. 2 and 3 show methods of mounting the same; and
Fig. 4 is a detail-view.
My improved tune-sheet is composed of separate parts a', a³, a³ capable of
being connected together by means of hooks hinges or rings b, or in any other
suitable manner so as to form a band or strip of any desired length, the parts,
links or members a¹, a², a³ of which can be detached and replaced as desired in
an easy manner.
Each part a', a³, a³ of the tune-sheet may be made in any ordinary or suitable
manner so as to be adapted to actuate a musical instrument, conveniently by
punching holes c, which may if desired be formed at their edges with serrations
for instance by being punched with serrated dies.
Each of the separate parts a¹, a³, a³ of the tune-sheet may correspond to the
whole or a portion only of a musical piece or composition. A tune-sheet of this
kind may consist of any convenient number of parts a¹, a², a³ and thus enable a
very large number of separate musical compositions to be played on a suitably
constructed automatic musical instrument; and the several musical pieces contained
in the tune-sheet can be played in succession, or out of their turn, or be repeated,
without its being necessary, as it has been heretofore, to take out by hand one
tune-sheet and to replace it or to substitute therefor another tune-sheet.
A tune-sheet a composed in this manner of a number of separate parts may
conveniently be passed over drums d (Fig. 2) or rollers d' (Fig. 3), and the tune-
sheet may then be allowed automatically to fold up at one of its ends e or f, as
shown in Fig. 3, which it will do without taking up any appreciable space.
A tune-sheet of this kind composed of a number of detachable parts enables a
practically unlimited number of musical pieces to be played in succession in a
suitably constructed mechanical musical instrument, or to be therein repeated or
played out of their turn, which has not been possible with the tune-sheets or tune-
discs hitherto used.
any
The parts a¹, a², a³ of the tune-sheet may be made of metal or of other
suitable material. They can be easily put together; and they may be advan-
tageously sold separately so that any person may be able to make up a tune-sheet
according to his own taste.

page_text: ne-sheets Ior Automatic Musical Instruments.
I, AUGUST AMTHOR, of 91 Burggasse, Waltershausen, Thuringia, Germany,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention 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 tune-sheets for automatic musical instruments as I will
now proceed to explain by reference to the illustrative drawings filed with my
Provisional Specification in which
Fig. 1 represents a tune-sheet constructed according to my invention;
Figs. 2 & 3 show methods of mounting the same; and
Fig. 4 is a detail-view.
My improved tune-sheet is composed of separate parts a', a³, a³ adapted to be
detachably connected together by any suitable means such as hooks, hinges, or
links b, so as to form a band or strip of any desired length the parts, links, or
members a', a², a³ of which can be detached and replaced as desired in an easy
manner.
The parts a, a, a³ of the tune-sheet may be made in any ordinary or suitable
manner so as to adapt them to actuate a musical instrument it may be by punching
in them holes c, which may if desired be formed at their edges with serrations for
instance by being punched with serrated dies.
Each of the separate parts a', a³, a³ of the tune-sheet may correspond to the
whole or a portion only of a musical piece or composition. A tune-sheet of this
kind may consist of any convenient number of parts a', a³, a³ and thus enable a
very large number of separate musical compositions to be played on a suitably
constructed automatic musical instrument; and the several musical pieces con-
tained in the tune-sheet can be played in succession, or out of their turn, or be
repeated, without its being necessary, as it has been heretofore, to take out by
hand one tune-sheet and to replace it or to substitute therefor another tune-sheet.
A tune-sheet a composed in this manner of a number of separate parts may,
when in use, conveniently be passed over drums d (Fig. 2) or a series of rollers d¹
(Fig. 3), and the tune-sheet may then be allowed automatically to fold up at one
of its ends e. or f, as shown in Fig. 3, which it will do without taking up any
appreciable space.
A tune-sheet of this kind composed of a number of detachable parts enables a
practically unlimited number of musical pieces to be played in succession in a
suitably constructed mechanical musical instrument or to be therein repeated or
played out of their turn, which has not been possible with the tune-sheets or tune-
discs hitherto used. .
Parts a, a, a, of the tune-sheet may be made of metal or of any other suitable
material. They can be easily put together; and they may be sold separately so
that any person may be able to make up a tune-sheet according to his own taste.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
A tune-sheet a for automatic musical instruments, comprising a number of
separate parts such as a', a³, a³, that are adapted, as for example by forming them
with holes c, to effect the playing of the musical instrument with which they are
to be used, and are connected to one another by suitable detachable fastening

page_text: devices such as hooks, hinges or links 6 so that they can be readily disconnected
and replaced substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to and illustrated
in the drawings.
Dated this 30th day of May 1894.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.