A New or Improved Combined Stand and Sound-board for Voice- recording and like Instruments.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 21st Sept., 1899-Accepted, 4th Nov., 1899
A New or Improved Combined Stand and Sound-board for Voice-
recording and like Instruments.
I, EDWARD WILSON CHANT, of Shrewton, in the County of Wilts, Baker, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows: -
This invention relates to a new or improved combined stand and sound-board
for gramophones and like sound-recording instruments, and has for its object
to provide a portable, simple, and inexpensive folding stand for use with grama-
phones and similar sound-recording instruments, which shall greatly increase
the volume and intensity of the sound produced by such instruments.
In carrying my invention into practice provide a square or other shaped
platform having a central opening therein and a number of circular or other
recesses in its surface. To two sides of the said platform are hinged two flaps
or folding supports whose lower edges are preferably curved so that when the
said supports are opened out and placed upon a table or the like, the lower
edges of such supports will come into contact with the table, for instance, at
four points.
Hinged stays are pivoted to the underside of the platform for the purpose
of supporting the beforementioned folding flaps or supports in their open
position. Openings are provided in the said folding flaps or supports through
which the joints of the said hinged stays partially project in order that the
folding flaps or supports may lie as close as possible upon the underside of the
platform when the former are folded beneath the latter.
A curved metal or other bridge spans the opening in the platform, to the
centre of which bridge a catch is pivoted for the purpose of securing the folding
flaps or supports in their folding position. In lieu of this central catch, end
catches may be pivoted or hinged to the under side of the platform to effect a
similar purpose.
Dated this 25th day of Anril 1800
A New or Improved Combined Stand and Sound-board for Voice-
recording and like Instruments.
I, EDWARD WILSON CHANT, of Shrewton, in the County of Wilts, Baker, 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:-
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This invention relates to a new or improved combined stand and sound-board

page_text: for gramophones and like sound-recording instruments, and has for its object
to provide a portable, simple and inexpensive folding stand for use with gramo-
phones and similar sound producing instruments, which shall greatly increase
the volume and intensity of the sound produced by such instruments.
In carrying my invention into practice I provide a square or other shaped
platform having a central opening therein and a number of circular or other
recesses in its surface. To two sides of the said platform are hinged two flaps
or folding supports whose lower edges are preferably curved so that when the
said supports are opened out and placed upon a table or the like, the lower
edges of such supports will come into contact with the table, for instance, at
four points.
Hinged stays are pivoted to the underside of the platform for the purpose
of supporting the beforementioned folding supports in their open position.
Openings are provided in the said supports, through which the joints of the
said hinged stays partially project, in order that the folding flaps or supports
may be as close as possible upon the underside of the platform when the former
are folded beneath the latter.
A curved metal or other bridge spans the opening in the platform, to the
centre of which bridge a catch is pivoted for the purpose of securing the folding
flaps or supports in their folded position. In lieu of this central catch, end
catches may be pivoted or hinged to the under side of the platform to effect a
similar purpose.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood
and carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying
sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein:
Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of the stand in its open position.
Fig. 2 a plan view of the underside thereof.
Fig. 3 is a side view of the stand in its folded position.
Fig. 4 a sectional view of the stand through line A-B of Fig. 1, while Fig. 5
is a side view of a detail.
Referring to the drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts throughout the several figures, a indicates the platform and
the central opening therein, which may be of any suitable shape and size.
c represents the two folding supports, which are hinged to the platform a at c¹.
The folding supports have concave recesses in their lower edges, so that
when the stand is placed upon a table or the like, the said supports will come
into contact with the former at four points c³. d are the stays for maintaining
the hinged supports in their open or extended position, such stays being
pivoted at one end to the underside of the platform a as at d¹ while they are
hingedly jointed about midway of their length as at 2, so that when the stand
is to be folded, such stays can be caused to lie flat against the underside of the
platform, openings being provided in the folding supports c in order that the
joints of the said stays may project somewhat through same when the supports
are in their folded position.
e represents a downwardly curved metal bridge, to the centre of which a
catch is pivoted for the purpose of securing the folding supports c in their
closed position (Fig. 3).
In lieu of this central catch, end catches (not shewn) may be pivoted or
hinged to the underside of the platform a to effect the foregoing purpose.
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:
1. The new or improved combined stand and sound-board for voice-recording
and like instruments, consisting in a platform having a central opening therein
and side supports hinged to said platform, and jointed stays pivoted to said
platform for maintaining the hinged supports in their extended position; and

page_text: a metal bridge spanning the central opening in the platform, said bridge having
a catch pivoted thereto for retaining the hinged supports in their closed posi-
tion, substantially as described and shewn.
2. In combined stands and sound-boards for voice-recording and the like
instruments, the platform a having a central opening 6 and a downwardly
curved bridge e spanning said central opening, said bridge having a catch f
pivoted thereto; and jointed stays d pivoted to the underside of said platform;
in combination with side folding supports c hinged to the platform a and having
openings c, said hinged supports having recesses in their lower edges whereby
the said supports only come into contact with the surface upon which the stand
is placed, at four points, all arranged, combined and operating, substantially
as and for the purpose described and as illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 21st day of September 1899.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., for the Applicant.