IMPROVEMENTS IN WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Victor Isidore Feeny at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th March 1882.
VICTOR ISIDORE FEENY, of 106 Queen Victoria Street, in the County
of Middlesex, Consulting Engineer " IMPROVEMENTS IN WIND MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS
"
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the construction and arrange-
ment of such wind musical instruments as are arranged to be operated automatically,
or by the hand or foot of the performer, parts of which Invention are applicable to
other similar instruments.
According to one part of this invention the reed chamber is so constructed as to
permit of the reeds being arranged chromatically and within a much less compass
than by the methods hitherto practised.
A second improvement consists in providing means whereby the instrument can
at the pleasure of the performer be arranged to be operated automatically or by
hand.
The invention further provides for operating the driving mechanism by hand or
by foot.
In carrying out the first part of the invention the reeds are arranged in a double
row spaced alternately on either side of the chamber, whereby a great saving of
space and width of card or paper is effected.
According to the second part of this invention suitable catches are provided
either upon the upper side of the outer case of the instrument or upon the upper
portion of the reed chamber into which studs or projections secured at either end
of a movable key board are arranged to enter, the rear end of the said keys being
furnished with suitable pads to bear upon and close the reed orifices.
By the third part of this invention it is proposed to mount the instrument upon
suitable standards so that the driving mechanism can be actuated in a somewhat
similar manner to that of an ordinary sewing machine.

page_text: And in order that the invention may be the better understood reference is made
to the accompanying sheet of drawing in which:
Figure 1. Represents an end view of the Improved Instrument.
Figure 2. Being a section through the reed chamber drawn to an enlarged scale
and
to the accompanying sheet of drawing in which:
Figure 1. Represents an end view of the Improved Instrument.
Figure 2. Being a section through the reed chamber drawn to an enlarged scale
and
Figure 3. a plan of a portion of the same,
A. A. are the reeds.
B. B. Reed orifices.
C. C. Reed chamber.
D. D. wind passages.
E. E. wind trunks.
F. wind chest.
G. Bellows.
H. Crank shaft.
I. Slotted plate.
K. L. Card or paper reels.
M. Perforated paper.
N. Switch lever.
O. disc on driving shaft H.
P. disc on driving take up reel.
Q. large disc on driving shaft H.
R. disc on paper reel K.
S. Handle.
Action Upon motion being imparted to the crank shaft H by means of the
handle S, the bellows G are set in motion and the discs O. Q caused to revolve.
By moving the switch lever N to the left the disc O is brought to bear upon the
disc P which is thereby made to revolve and so wind the perforated paper M from
off the reel K over the reed chamber C onto the take up reel L.
By moving the switch N to the right the disc Q is made to bear upon the disc R
which being thereby set in motion causes the paper M to be re-wound upon the
reel K from off the reel L.