IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CASES OF PIANOFORTES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Anderson Rüst, of 34, Great Marlborough
Street; Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Pianoforte Manu-
facturer, for thé Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
CASES OF PIANOFORTES."
Sealed the 23rd May 1862, and dated the 3rd December 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Anderson Rüst át
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents; with his Petition; on the
3rd December 1861.
I, ROBERT. ANDERSON RUST, of 34, Great Marlborough Street, Westminster,
in the County of Middlesex; Pianoforte. Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said. Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
CASES OF PIANOFORTES," to be as follows:→
The nature of this Invention consists in constructing the exterior case of
the piano with a sloping front, which should be of fretwork or openwork, to
form an extended desk for the music books, "parts" or pieces of music,, and
such desk. may be made with open work flaps or wings at each end, so that
it may even be extended beyond the ordinary width of the piano if desired,*
and thus enable several performers to have convenient space for supporting
their separate books; or, "parts" or pieces of music; and the top of the piano
is to be made to open to the full extent, and should have frètwork or open-

page_text: work over a series of openings between the bracings, thus admitting free
escape of the tone. The cheeks and brackets are to be all in one, and firmly
dowelled and glued or secured into the ends, thereby affording greater strength
and durability; the "fall" to be shaped to suit the front, and to have a slip
music desk extending the whole width of said fall.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Anderson Rüst in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
ANDERSON RÜST, of 34, Great Marlborough Street, Westminster, in the
County of Middlesex, Pianoforte Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of December, in tho year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth. year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Robert Anderson Rüst, Her special licence that I, the said Robert
Anderson Rust, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others,
as I, the said Robert Anderson Rust, 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 CONSTRUCTION OF THE CASES OF PIANO-
FORTES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert
Anderson Rüst, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should. particularly
describe 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-Robert Anderson Rüst, do hereby
declare 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 :-
(Part No. I.) The nature of this Invention consists in constructing the
exterior case of the piano with a sloping front, which should be of fretwork

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or openwork, or otherwise,. to form' an extended desk for the music books,
"parts" or pieces of music; and such desk may, when desired, be made-with-
openwork, or other slides, flaps; or wings at each end, so that it may even be
extended beyond the ordinary width of the piano if desired, thus enabling
several performers to have convenient space for supporting their separate,
books,..or "parts" or pieces of music; and the top of the piano is if desired
to be made open to the full extent, and may even have fretwork or openwork
over the spaces between the bracings, thus admitting free escape of tone.
The "cheeks" and brackets are to be all in one, and firmly dowelled and
glued, or otherwise secured into the ends, thereby affording greater strength.
and durability. The fall to be shaped to suit the front, and to have a slip
music desk extending the whole width of said fall.
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(Part No. II.) Having thus described the nature, of the said Invention, I
will now describe in what manner the same is to be performed, wherein I
shall refer to the accompanying Drawings by the words, figures, and letters
following, that is to say,
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
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Figure 1, front view; Figure 2, end view; Figure 3, plan of part of
arrangements.
A, the sloping part of the front, which should be of fretwork or openwork,
in order to form part of the extended desk aforesaid, over or under which are
two slides or sliding panels A', A². When these sliding panels are drawn out
for use, in the manner shewn at A', Fig. 1, the laths or splats C, D, are
hooked on the tops of the said laths or splats, being made thus 7, so as to
hook on the top edge of the slide A' (or A²), the lower part of each of the
said laths being secured to a moveable book-rest rail E', secured by a sort of
dovetail to the book rest or slip E, which is fixed on and extends the whole.
length of the fall (see Fig. 3), hence the laths C and D can be removed, by
pressing the rail book rest E, so as to remove the dovetail out of its groove,
and then by lifting off the laths from the top of sliding panel A¹ the whole of
this portion of the desk may be removed, and can be put away where thought
proper. G denotes the united "cheeks" and bracket all in one, and firmly
dowelled and glued, or otherwise secured into the ends of the piano, thereby
affording great strength and durability. The fall is made in two parts, the
5 one to throw up, as H, and the other H' to fall down. The top of the case.
has openings therein between each of the bracings to allow of the escape of
the tone, and fretwork or openwork should be used over said spaces at top
of the case.

page_text: (Part No. III.). Having now particularly described and ascertained the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, I declare that I claim the Invention as the nature and character
thereof is set forth in the outset (marked Part No. I.) of this my Specification
thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Anderson Rüst, have hereunto
set my
hand and seal, this Second day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
B. WALKER,
Clk. to Gen'. Pat. Company Lim³.,
71, Fleet St, London.
R. A. RUST. (L.S.)