IMPROVE- MENTS IN CHIN RESTS AND SHOULDER PADS FOR VIOLINS AND VIOLAS to be as follows:-
Year: 1885

page_text: We WILLIAM EBSWORTH HILL, ARTHUR FREDERICK HILL, and ALFRED
EBSWORTH HILL, trading as William Hill & Sons all of 72 Wardour Street in
the County of Middlesex Violin Makers, and ANDREAS PETTERSSON of Church
Road, Rugby in the County of Warwick Violinist and HENRY GIFFORD NASH
of 14 Myddleton Place, Islington in the County of Middlesex, Mathematical
Instrument Maker do hereby declare the nature of said invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CHIN RESTS AND SHOULDER PADS FOR VIOLINS AND VIOLAS to be as
follows:-
"
According to this invention we produce a combined adjustable chin rest and
shoulder pad which is fixed to the violin or viola itself. The chin rest proper is by
preference made of ebony or ebonite and is hollowed out so as to fit the lower side
of chin and jaw-bone accurately, and formed with a back projecting ledge to catch
under the jaw-bone, thus ensuring comfort and firm grip. The chin rest proper is
provided with a frame for attaching it to the instrument, and this frame is
adjustable in length according to the varying thicknesses of the "sides" of the
instrument, and is moreover provided with a button or other means for detachably
connecting a shoulder pad thereto, the latter being formed suitably for such
connection, for instance by a button on the frame and an eye on the pad, or by
dovetail groove or socket connection. The adjustable frame we prefer to make in
two parts one sliding within the other and one being provided with a horizontal
slot and the other with an oblique slot, a sliding button connecting the two. By
sliding this button laterally the length of frame is adjusted as required. In order
to hold the frame somewhat securely in any position when adjusted we form one
side of the oblique slot with small teeth and notches the pin finding its place in
one of them.
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page_text: We, WILLIAM EBSWORTH HILL, ARTHUR FREDERICK HILL and ALFRED
EBSWORTH HILL trading as William Hill & Sons all of 72 Wardour Street in
the County of Middlesex Violin Makers and ANDREAS PETTERSSON of Church
Road Rugby in the County of Warwick Violinist and HENRY GIFFORD NASH
of 14 Myddleton Place Islington in the County of Middlesex Mathematical
Instrument 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:―
According to this invention we produce a combined adjustable chin rest and
shoulder pad which is fixed to the violin or viola itself.
The Invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a combined chin rest and shoulder pad constructed
according to our Invention shewn applied to a violin. Figure 2 is a side elevation
of the same also shown applied to a violin. Figure 3 is a plan of the combined
apparatus removed from the violin. Figure 4 is a sectional plan of the adjustable
frame taken through the line a b of Figure 1 and drawn twice the size of the frame
itself in order to shew the parts clearly. Figure 5 is an inverted plan or view of
the underside of the shoulder pad and Figure 6 is a perspective view of the whole
apparatus. Similar letters of reference refer to like parts in all of the Figures.
The chin rest proper is by preference made of ebony or ebonite and is hollowed
out as shown at a Figures 1, 2, 3 and 6 so as to fit the lower side of chin and jaw
bone accurately, and formed with a back projecting ledge b to catch under the
jawbone thus ensuring comfort and firm grip. The chin rest proper is provided
with a frame c for attaching it to the instrument a portion of which is shown at
Figures 1 and 2 and this frame c is adjustable in length as hereafter more fully
described according to the varying thicknesses of the "sides" of the instrument
and is moreover provided with a button or other means for detachably connecting
a shoulder pad e thereto, the latter being formed suitably for such connection, for
instance by a button d Figure 5 on the frame c and an eye f on the pad plate g
which is capable of adjustment by bending for example the eye f in the pad plate g
being large enough to receive the button & the shank of which is free to be pulled
along in the smaller and extended slot so that when the button shank is at the
end of the slot the button holds the pad e and pad plate g, securely in position or
this shoulder pad may be secured by dovetailed groove or socket connection. The
adjustable frame c we prefer to make in two parts h and i one sliding (that
marked i) within the other, or that part marked h being provided with a horizontal
slot and the other i with an oblique slot a sliding button m connecting the two
parts hand of the adjustable frame. By sliding this button m laterally the
length of frame c is adjusted as required. In order to hold the frame securely in
any position when adjusted we form one side of the oblique slot with small teeth
or notches as shewn in dotted lines of Figure 1 the pin finding its place in one
of them.

page_text: When not in use the chin rest and frame are disconnected from the shoulder parl
and the two can be conveniently carried in a small box.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
First. The construction and employment of a combined chin rest and shoulder
pad for violins and violas substantially as set forth.
Second. The particular form of rest hollowed out to fit lower side of chin and
jawbone and back projection, ledge to catch under jawbone substantially as and for
the purposes described and shewn particularly with reference to Figures 1 2 3
and 6 of the accompanying drawings.
Third. The adjustable frame c constructed and acting substantially as and for
the purposes set forth.
Fourth. The shoulder pad capable of being connected disconnected and adjusted
at pleasure to a chin rest of any convenient kind or construction substantially as
set forth.