Improvements in Means for Preventing Injury to Clothes whilst Playing on Banjos and such like Musical Instruments.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 5th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Means for Preventing Injury to Clothes whilst
Playing on Banjos and such like Musical Instruments.
I DAVID VEITCH of No. 236 Battersea Park Road London S W. Banjo Maker, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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The object of my Invention is to prevent injury to the clothes of banjoists whilst
playing banjos or other like musical instruments.
In an ordinary banjo provided with tension bolts the nuts at the end of same used.
for the purpose of tightening or relaxing the strain on the skin have a very great
tendency when the banjo us in use to wear or tear the coat and, or, trousers or dress
of the banjoist but according to my Invention I cover these nuts all round the rim of
the banjo or other part i.e. the wearing surface, with metal or other suitable shields.
These shields are secured to the top of the tension bolt or bolts or they may be
fastened to the rim of the banjo by screws or by other suitable means & they therefore
encase the nut or nuts and are secured to the inner side of the rim by screws or by
any other-suitable means. Or the shield may be carried up on the interior side of
the rim of the banjo until it reaches the screw in the bracket and if a hole is drilled
through the screw of the bracket is enabled to pass through it thus securing it and
at the same time the tension bolt to the rim.
Of course it will be understood that this shield has a smooth or rounded surface
which completely covers the nut or nuts of the tension bolt or bolts-it being curved
when it is turned from the exterior to the interior surface of the rim of the banjo.
Dated this 4th day of May 1889
D. VEITCH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Preventing Injury to Clothes whilst
Playing on Banjos and such like Musical Instruments.
I DAVID VEITCH of No. 236 Battersea Park Road London S.W Banjo Maker,
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 object of my Invention is to prevent injury to the clothes of banjoists whilst
playing banjos or other like musical instruments.
In an ordinary bunjo provided with tension bolts the nuts at the end of same used
for the purpose of tightening or relaxing the strain on the skin have a very great
tendency when the banjo is in use to wear or tear the coat and or trousers or dress
of the banjoist but according to my invention I cover these nuts all round the rim
of the banjo or other part ie. the wearing surface with metal or other suitable shields.
These shields are secured to the top of the tension bolt or bolts' or they may be
fastened to the rim of the banjo by screws or by other suitable means and they
therefore encase the nut or nuts and are secured to the inner side of the rim by screws
or by any other suitable means. Or the shield may be carried up on the inner side
of the rim of the banjo until it reaches the screw in the bracket and if a hole is
drilled through it the screw of the bracket is enabled to pass through it thus securing
it and at the same time the tension bolt to the rim.
Of course it will be understood that this shield has a smooth or rounded surface
which completely covers the nut or nuts of the tension bolt or bolts it being curved
when it is turned from the exterior to the interior surface of the rim of the banjo.
And further it will be understood that there are several ways of securing this shield

page_text: to the banjo according to the various make of banjos My sole object being to
encase the nut or nuts of the tension bolt or bolts with a shield of metal or other
suitable material.
For
There may be two or more shields or a shield entirely covering the banjo.
instance one to cover the nuts which wear against the trousers or dress and the other
to cover the nut or nuts which wear against the breast
It will also be further understood that this shield is entirely separate from the
banjo.
The accompanying sheet of Drawings will fully explain my Invention.
nut c.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of a banjo frame. a being the tension bolt which is used
for tightening or relaxing the strain on the skin 6 by screwing up or unscrewing the
The shield made of metal or other suitable material completely covers
the nut c which presses and tears the clothes of the banjoist when playing the banjo.
This shield d is secured to the banjo by means of the screw.h which screws on to a
strip of metal 1. There are several ways of securing this shield d to the banjo and I
have consequently shown an alternative method in fig. 2 which is also in section and
from which it will be seen that the screw p of the bracket e passes through the inner
side of this shield-d and so secures it on to the banjo. e represents the bracket through
which the tension bolt a passes of the wood frame. g the metal rim and m, m iron
wires used for keeping the rim g in position.
Fig. 3 is an external elevation of the shield d as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 4 is a
sectional plan taken on the dotted line 2, 2 fig. 1 Fig. 5 is a vertical section,
drawn to a larger scale, of the shield d as illustrated in fig. 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
Providing a shield or shields of metal or other suitable material to completely
cover the nut or nuts or end or ends of the tension bolts.
FIL
antruba 1980
D. VEITCH.