Improvements in or Additions to the Valve Seatings of Organs and other like Wind Musical Instruments.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 8th Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to the Valve Seatings of Organs
and other like Wind Musical Instruments.
I, HENRY MOON, of Holloway Head, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the seatings of the valves of the air passages of organs
and other like wind musical instruments.
The valves in connection with the air passages constructed according to my
invention may be electrically or otherwise controlled.
The termination of an electrically controlled air passage which in the ordinary
construction consists of an outside screwed tube or ferrule cross gapped upon its
lower edge with its crown collar pierced, is provided with an armature which opens
and closes the holes leading to the said air passage, and which armature is operated
by an electro-magnet above it.
The collared piercings, whose collars stand above the crown of the air passage,
form seatings for the armature which constitutes the valve, and however true these
seatings may be ground, there is always a defect in them as to their soundness.
By my invention a simple and efficient seating is obtained and soundness is
absolutely ensured.
In carrying out my invention, I take a length of tubing or an outside screwed
length of tubing, cross gapped at its lower edge as before described, and with the
summit stepped or necked thus forming an upright flange or annular ring which is
sunken about its middle from the top side, and which middle part is pierced with a
series of holes leading to the interior of the tube which constitutes the air
passage.
Circumferentially surrounding the neck part or the annular flange made by it,
and coming above the plane of the top edge of the same, is an india-rubber ring,
which forms the seating to the valve.
Thus the seating end of the air passage is centrally sunken, and has small holes
directed through the said sunken part which is surrounded by an upright collar or
annular flange, a little less in height than a surrounding india-rubber ring or
washer lying upon the outer walls or the stepped circumferential part of the
crown.
The outside diameter of the rubber ring or seating attachment is slightly less in
diameter than the tube of the air passage, so that the said tube can be fitted into
position in the ordinary way.
The collar which encircles the pierced sinking forms a support for the surrounding
rubber ring.
The application of my invention to other organs other than electrically controlled
ones and to other wind musical instruments differs in no essential respect from its
application to an electrically-controlled organ as herein before described.
Dated this 5th day of February 1894.

page_text: Improvements in or Additions to the Valve Seatings of Organs
and other like Wind Musical Instruments.
I, HENRY MOON, of Holloway Head, in the City of Birmingham, 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 :-
My invention relates to the seatings of the valves of the air passages of organs
and other like wind musical instruments.
The valves in connection with the air passages constructed according to my
invention may be electrically or otherwise controlled.
The termination of an electrically controlled air passage, as ordinarily constructed
consists of an outside screwed tube or ferrule, cross gapped upon its lower edge,
and with its crown collar pierced, provided with an armature which opens and
closes the holes leading to the said air passage, and which armature is operated by
an electro-magnet above it.
The collared piercings, whose collars stand above the crown of the air passage,
form seatings for the armature which constitutes the valve, and however true these
seatings may be ground, there is always a defect in them as to their soundness.
By my invention, a simple and efficient seating is obtained and soundness is
absolutely ensured.
In carrying out my invention, I take a length of tubing or an outside screwed
length of tubing, cross gapped at its lower edge as before described, and with the
summit stepped or necked thus forming an upright flange or annular ring which is
sunken about its middle from the top side, and which middle part is pierced with a
series of holes leading to the interior of the tube which constitutes the air
passage.
Circumferentially surrounding the neck part or the annular flange made by it,
and coming above the plane of the top edge of the same, is an india-rubber ring,
which forms the seating to the valve.
Thus the seating end of the air passage is centrally sunken, and has small holes
directed through the said sunken part which is surrounded by an upright collar or
annular flange, a little less in height than a surrounding india-rubber ring or
washer lying upon the outer walls or the stepped circumferential part of the
crown.
The outside diameter of the rubber ring or seating attachment is slightly less in
diameter than the tube of the air passage, so that the said tube can be fitted into
position in the ordinary way.
The collar which encircles the pierced sinking forms a support for the surrounding
rubber ring.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents an elevation of an organ valve
made and provided with improvements according to one form of my invention.
Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same, showing the rubber seating ring
coming upon the surface of the stepped top and surrounding the walls of the annular
ring or flange and extending above its edge.
Figure 3 represents a like view as Figure 2, but with the india-rubber or like
yielding seating removed.
Figure 4 is an underside plan and Figure 5 a topside plan of Figure 1 whilst
Figure 6 is a horizontal section of Figure 1.
Figure 7 is a section of a modified form of valve, and Figure 8 is a plan of it.
In Figures 1 to 6, a is an outside-screwed and tubular body part, cross gapped
at a', upon its lower edge a³, and having upon its upper and pierced closed end a³,
a stepped crown a', or a crown provided with an upright flange or annular ring aº,

page_text: of a less diameter than the body of the valve and encircling the piercings in the
crown. Surrounding this ring or annular flange and resting upon the top edge aº,
of the crown, is an india-rubber seating ring b, whose top edge b', comes a little
above the top edge a', of the annular ring a, which embraces an inside space or
open topped sinking as, situated above the piercings a³, in the crown a³.
In Figures 7 and 8, the open-topped sinking is substituted by a series of annular
and concentric sinkings bounded by annular ribs, within which sinkings the
piercings are made.
a is the body part, and is the rubber seating encircling the collar or neck a*.
a3 is the crown, as the sinkings, a the annular ribs and a the piercings.
Instead of the rubber ring b lying upon the outside of a collar, it may lie within
an annular groove or sinking a formed within the topside of the crown a³, or the
annular ring a, or formed between annular flanges formed upon the summit of the
valve, as represented in Figure 9.
The application of my invention to other organs other than electrically controlled
ones, and to other wind musical instruments differs in no essential respect from its
application to an electrically-controlled organ as herein before described.
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 :―
First. In organ valves, providing the same with rubber or like ring seatings,
either circumferentially surrounding an annular ring or flange, or partly sunken
within an annular sinking, or coming between annular flanges, disposed upon, or
formed within, an end part of the valve, substantially as set forth.
Secondly. In organ valves, the employment of annular rings or collars upon the
faces, to form seatings, substantially as described and set forth.
1ated the ara nay of November 1894
■Dated the aru nay Of November 1894
HENRY MOON,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent.