Improvements relating to Musical Instruments of the Mouth Organ Kind.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Musical Instruments of the Mouth
Organ Kind.
A communication by MATHIAS HOHNER, of Trossingen, near Tuttlingen, in the
Empire of Germany, Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6 Bank Street Manchester, both
in the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, 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 :-
This invention has for its object to obtain as smooth a playing surface as possible
for the instrument, and to avoid the danger of injury to the mouth produced by
mechanical or chemical causes.
This is attained by adapting to the musical instrument or mouth-organ a casing
of nickel plated or tinned or aluminium sheet metal which covers the side where
the mouth-piece is and the two sides for the sounding tongues, and is stamped
out of one piece of metal and bent up into a suitable form and attached at the sides
to the wood work.
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying sheet of
illustrative drawings.
The front part of the hereinbefore mentioned casing B has blow holes bb stamped
in it, which fit the wind channels in the wood of the chamber. The two rear sides
have small slots of such a kind that when the cover B is attached to the wood of
the chamber A Figure 1, they form sound holes.
In Figure 2 of the drawing, which represents the front view of a mouth organ,
the blank of the casing as stamped at one operation out of metal, is shown in dotted
lines. The dotted lines represent the parts which are bent up. The projections b¹ b¹
fit in the tongue plates a, whilst the parts 6262 lap over one another and are in
common attached sideways to the wood the chamber by which means the cover B
is firmly attached to the mouth organ.
The playing surface of the mouth organ, that is to say the parts of the same
which come in contact with the mouth, are by this arrangement of the case B
extremely smooth, and as the latter is as stated formed of nickel plated or aluminium
sheet metal no injury is caused to the mouth even if the playing be continued for
a long time, as frequently happens with celluloid coverings. The instrument is
convenient and pleasant to handle and has an extremely elegant appearance.
Figure 3 is an end view of the instrument showing how the flaps of the case
overlap and are pinned.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
A case for musical instruments of the mouth-organ kind stamped out in one
piece from nickel plated or tinned, or aluminium sheet metal which covers the
whole mouth-organ with the exception of the back and which has, blow holes on
the side which is played on and is attached to the sides of the wood of the chamber,
all substantially as herein before described and shown.
DL 101 1
1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.