IMPROVEMENTS IN REED ORGANS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Haseltine, of the "International Patent
Office," Southampton Buildings, London, Doctor of Laws, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN REED ORGANS."-A communication
from abroad by George Woods, of Cambridgeport, Massachusetts,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Haseltine at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 3rd August 1872.
I, GEORGE HASELTINE, of the " International Patent Office," South-
5 ampton Buildings, London, Doctor of Laws,, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN REED ORGANS," a
communication, to be as follows:-
The said Invention consists of the arrangement of an additional wind
chest, reed, and sounding box relatively to the common wind chest,

page_text: whereby the apparatus for working the valves of said attachment is
simplified and improved.
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The Invention also consists of a combination of a sheet or web of
india-rubber, coated cloth, or other equivalent substance with the
sounding board of said additional wind chest, for varying and improving
the tones.
The wind from the chest passes through a valve box when required by
lifting a valve actuated by levers and a cranked rod. One of these
levers is connected with a suitable apparatus, by which means the
operator can actuate it when at the keyboard. By arranging the wind
chest and its sound chest vertically, so that the valves may bev ertical,
I am enabled by the aid of rods and sector pieces suitably arranged to
open the valves. This is a more simple, cheap, and efficient arrangement.
than any heretofore used, requiring only two additional pieces to the
common action.
I propose to employ a web or sheet of india-rubber, coated, or other
equivalent webbing of flexible material, which is applied to the rear wall
of the wind chest, that is to say, an opening of suitable size is formed in
said wall, and a plate of wood or metal applied to cover or close the
same on the inside, but provided with a central aperture. The rubber
sheet is similarly applied on the outside of the wall, so that a chamber is
formed between it and the aforesaid plate into which the air enters
through an aperture. This arrangement has the effect of rendering
the sounds peculiar, or of a quality not obtainable in other instruments.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Geoege Haseltine in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 31st January 1873.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," Southampton Build-
ings, London, Doctor of Laws, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing, date the Third day of August, in the year of

page_text: our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said George Haseltine, Her special licence that
I, the said George Haseltine, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said George Haseltine, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 REED
ORGANS," a communication to me from abroad by George Woods, of
Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, United States of America, upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said George Haseltine, 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 George Haseltine, 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, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing
forming a part of this Specification:-
The said Invention consists in the arrangement of an additional wind
chest, reed, and sounding box relatively to the common wind chest,
whereby the apparatus for working the valves is simplified and im-
proved.
The said Invention also consists in a combination of a sheet or web of
india-rubber, coated cloth, or other equivalent substance, with the
sounding board of the said additional wind chest, for varying and
improving the tones.
Figure 1 is a transverse section through the keyboard, the ordinary
wind chest, and the additional wind chest of an instrument having my

page_text: improvements applied to it, the section being taken on the line x, x,
Figure 2; Figure 2 is a section on the line y, y, Figure 1..
Figures 3 and 4 are details of the tremolo attachment.
A represents the wind chest; B, the valves; and C, the keys of the
ordinary arrangement. D is the additional wind chest; E, the valves;
F, the sounding box; G, the sounding box of the tremolo attachment;
and I and K the means for opening the valves by the key; L is a valve
box, through which the wind is allowed to pass from chest D to A
when required, by lifting the valve M, which is actuated by the
levers O, P, and the cranked rod R, the lever ○ being connected with
any suitable apparatus by which the operator can actuate it when at the
keyboard. By arranging the wind chest D and its sound chest F
vertically, as herein described, so that the valves E may be vertical, I
am enabled to open the said valves by rods I and sector pieces K,
arranged relatively to the keys as shown, this being a more simple, cheap,
and efficient arrangement than any heretofore used, requiring only two
pieces additional to the common action.
I propose to employ a web or sheet of india-rubber, coated webbing,
or other equivalent flexible material, which is applied to the rear wall T
of the wind chest D, as shewn, that is to say, an opening of suitable size
is formed in the said wall, and a plate of wood or metal is applied to
cover or close the same on the inside, but provided with a central
aperture V. The rubber sheet is similarly applied on the outside of the
wall, so that a chamber Y is formed between it and the aforesaid plate
into which the air enters through the aperture V. This arrangement
has the effect of rendering the sounds peculiar, or of a quality not
obtainable in other instruments.

page_text: Second. The flexible webbing and apertured plate applied to the wind
chest D, as herein specified.
In witness. whereof, I; the said George Haseltine, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
Witness,
JAMES EDWARDS,
8, Southampton Buildings,
W.C.
GEORGE HASELTINE. (L.S.)