Improvements in Musical Boxes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 14th May, 1892-Accepted, 16th July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Musical Boxes.
We, OSWALD THOST and HERMANN RICHTER of the firm of Thost & Richter,
of 14 Bayrische Strasse Leipzig, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is a device for sounding the tongues of the reeds in
musical boxes, the improvement consisting essentially in the sounding lever being
made of a piece with the nose engaging in the music sheet, said lever being
suspended in one point and arranged for one reed or for two simultaneously
sounding reeds. The sounding lever is one-armed and carries below, the damper
pad and sounding nose and at the top the nose for engaging into the music sheet.
This nose is pressed downward by the music sheet, and, when it falls into a music
sign, the sounding nose is passed along the point of the reed tongue, which is
however at once prevented from oscillating by the damper pad. When the rear
rim of the music sign coincides with the music sheet nose, the sounding nose
descends and takes along unimpededly the point of the reed tongue which, at the
end of the descent, snaps off and sounds freely. The band-shaped music sheet is
guided along over the sounding levers and pressed on and moved by rollers
arranged in the neighbourhood thereof, while the main movement of the music
sheet is effected by a cylinder provided with driving pegs either in the middle or at
the sides according to the size of the instrument and actuated by hand or
mechanically, the music sheet being provided with corresponding apertures for the
pegs.
When the sounding lever is arranged for two reeds, the sounding noses and
damper pads are so placed that one reed is worked from above and the other from
below, ie. the pad is on one side above and on the other side below the sounding
nose.
Dated this 14th day of August 1891
HUELSER & Co., .
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Musical Boxes.
We, OSWALD THOST and HERMANN RICHTER, of the firm of Thost & Richter,
of Bayersche Strasse 81, Leipzig; in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturers, 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 :-
The subject of this invention is a device for sounding the tongues of the reeds in
musical boxes, the improvement consisting chiefly in the sounding lever being made
of a piece with the nose engaging in the music sheet, said lever being arranged for
one reed or for two simultaneously sounding reeds.
In the accompanying drawings, which show an instrument embodying our
invention,
Figs. 15 represent different positions of the sounding or striking lever.
Fig. 6 is a vertical section of a musical box along line N-N of Fig. 7.
Fig. 7 is a vertical section along line M-M of Fig. 8.
Fig. 8 is a horizontal section.
Figs. 9-11 represent different positions of a sounding or striking lever acting

page_text: The sounding lever E' is pivoted at a. It carries below the damper pad ƒ and
sounding nose d, and at the top the nose for engaging into the slots of the music
sheet N. This nose is pressed downward by the music sheet (Fig. 1) and, when
it enters a music sign or slot, the sounding nose d rises and thereby presses against
the point of the reed tongue, which is however at once prevented from oscillating
by the damper pad .. When the rear edge of the music sign or slot reaches the
sounding nose or tooth, the latter descends and takes along the point of the reed
tongue, which, at the end of the descent, snaps off and sounds freely. The band
shaped music sheet N is guided along over the sounding levers F' (Figs. 6-8) and
held down by rollers, while the propulsion of the music sheet N is effected by
a drum or cylinder G. provided with driving pegs k, either in the middle or at
the sides, according to the size of the instrument, and actuated by hand or
mechanically, the music sheet being provided with corresponding apertures / for
the pegs.
When the sounding lever F is arranged for two reads, as in Figs. 9-11, the
sounding noses d e and damper pads are so placed, that one reed g is worked from
"above and the other g' from below . the pad is on one side above and on the other
side below the sounding nose.
The instrument may be set in motion by hand, or by means of a spring
barrel H.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
1. A musical box comprising in its construction striking levers F' having pivots a
and two arms one of which carries the nose b for the music sheet, while the other
carries the sounding or striking point d and the damper f; a music sheet N
provided in the middle or centre line with propelling holes 1, and a driving cylinder
and guide rollers G, h, h', i, adapted to guide the said sheet in a plane surface over
the teeth of the said levers F', substantially as described with reference to
Figs. 1 to 5.
2. In a musical box of the type described above, a set of striking levers F, each
of which has, in addition to the striking point d, a striking pivot e and damper f,
aud a second reed, arranged so, that one motion of the nose 6 acts on two reeds g, 9',
substantially as described with reference to Figs. 9 to 11.
Dated this 14th day of May 1892.
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HUELSER & Co.,
Agents for Applicants.