IMPROVEMENTS IN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Philip Middleton Justice of 53 Chancery Lane in the
County of Middlesex Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents for an
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS communicated to him
from abroad by Jacques Albert of Brussels in the Kingdom of Belgium
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Philip Middleton Justice
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th March 1883.
PHILIP MIDDLETON JUSTICE of 53 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex
Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents IMPROVEMENTS IN MUSICAL INSTRU-
MENTS A communication to me from abroad by Jacques Albert of Brussels in the
Kingdom of Belgium
According to this invention the musical instruments are made of a metal tube
(such as gold silver or German silver, nickel brass or other suitable metal) covered
with vulcanized caoutchouc instead of the wood usually employed to form the body
of musical instruments such say as flutes, clarionettes, hautboys bassoons and the
like The metal tube according to this invention has several advantages and applica-
tions as for example when used for the interior cavity or bore of the instrument it
enables said "bore" to be made very exact and solid as if the tube be thin and be
placed on a polished steel mandril the bore so formed is more true in all its
parts than those made by boring in the usual way It will be more solid because
the water which forms by condensation in the interior of such musical instruments
will have almost no deteriorating action while such moisture has considerable
action in instruments formed of wood owing to its porous and fibrous nature
The
application of metal for this purpose also enables the entire instrument to be made
more firm and solid than those now, in general use
"The vulcanized caoutchouc also has many advantages in this combination among
which may be mentioned that of giving to the walls of the instrument the proper
thickness for the formation of the side holes or for placing and securing the pivots

page_text: upon which the keys are mounted while in this last case it has the additional
advantage over wood of having a greater density It is evident that the caoutchouc
may be coloured to resemble wood or other material if desired and it has the
further advantage over wood of being impermeable not only to moisture but also
to certain acids and as it can support a very considerable heat without alteration
instruments may be made under this invention capable of resisting all usual
atmospheric influences
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Philip Middleton Justice in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
19th September 1883.
PHILIP MIDDLETON JUSTICE of 53 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex
Fellow of The Institute of Patent Agents IMPROVEMENTS IN MUSICAL INSTRU-
MENTS A communication to me from abroad by Jacques Albert of Brussels in the
Kingdom of Belgium
According to this invention the musical instruments are made of a metal tube
(such as gold silver, or German silver, nickel, brass, or other suitable metal)
covered with vulcanized caoutchouc, instead of the wood usually employed to form
the body of musical instruments such say as flutes, clarionettes, hautboys, bassoons
and the like. The metal tube according to this invention has several advantages
and applications, as for example when used for the interior cavity or bore of the
instrument, it enables said "bore" to be made very exact and solid as if the tube
be thin and be placed on a polished steel mandril the bore so formed is more true
in all its parts than those made by boring in the usual way It will be more solid
because the water which forms by condensation in the interior of such musical
instruments will have almost no deteriorating action, while such moisture has con-
siderable action in instruments formed of wood owing to its porous and fibrous
nature The application of metal for this purpose also enables the entire instrument
to be made more firm and solid than those now in general use
The vulcanized caoutchouc also has many advantages in this combination among
which may be mentioned that of giving to the walls of the instrument the proper
thickness for the formation of the side holes, or for placing and securing the pivots
upon which the keys are mounted while in this last case it has the additional
advantage over wood of having a greater density It is evident that the caoutchouc
may be colored to resemble wood or other material if desired and it has the further
advantage over wood of being impermeable, not only to moisture but also to certain
acids and as it can support a very considerable beat without alteration, instruments
may be made under this invention capable of resisting all usual atmospheric
influences

page_text: Having thus described the invention as communicated to me by my foreign
correspondent What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is
The improvements in musical instruments hereinbefore described which
consist in forming said instruments of metal and vulcanized caoutchouc
substantially as and for the purposes set forth
In Witness whereof I the said Philip Middleton Justice have hereunto set my
hand and seal this nineteenth day of September in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty three
Signed, sealed and delivered
in the presence of
ALLEN PARRY JONES
55 & 56 Chancery Lane
London W
PHILIP M. JUSTICE (L.S.)