An Improved Cycle Alarm or Musical Instrument to be Operated by the Mouth or other Air Blast.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 28th July, 1900-Accepted, 1st Sept., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cycle Alarm or Musical Instrument to be Operated by
the Mouth or other Air Blast.
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I, ALBERT HOWARD GODFREY, trading as B. Godfrey & Co., of 368, Moseley
Road, in the City of Birmingham, Cycle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention consists of the herein described improved cycle alarm or musical
instrument to be operated by the mouth or other air blast.
In one arrangement of carrying out my invention I provide a short piece of
indiarubber tube one end of which is adapted to be placed in the mouth or is
provided with a suitable mouth piece and at the other end and at a certain
distance from that end the indiarubber tube is flattened. This has to be done
during the process of manufacture. The flattened end of the tube thus forms
two lips so that on blowing down the tube from the other end these lips are
by the air passing through them caused to vibrate and a musical or other sound
is produced. Instead of the tube being made of indiarubber as above described
very thin metal or other suitable material may be employed but it has to be so
thin that the lips will vibrate as the air is forced between them as above described.
The instrument above described can if desired be combined with and fixed
in the mouth end of a horn or a trumpet like metal or other tube so as to
increase the sound. By making the tubular lips larger or smaller or increasing
or diminishing the length of the same or of the tube different notes and tones
can be produced. Thus a number of the said lips or sounders can be combined
together in one instrument like an organ.
Instead of making the lip parts from a short piece of round indiarubber tube
which is flattened at and for a certain distance from the end through which the
air issues, the said tube may be flattened from end to end and thus form a portion
which is cut off a long flattened tube, one end of the said flattened tube being
expanded by being stretched over a suitable mouth piece or tube for admitting
air to be forced between the lips at the other end to make the sound as above
described.
Dah 14+1 dor of November 1899
An Improved Cycle Alarm or Musical Instrument to be Operated by
the Mouth or other Air Blast.
I, ALBERT HOWARD GODFREY, of 368, Moseley Road, in the City of Birmingham,
Cycle Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
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page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and, ascertained
in and by the following statement: ----
This invention consists of the herein described improved cycle alarm or musical
instrument to be operated by the mouth or other air blast.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
which Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a cycle alarm constructed according to this
invention; Fig. 2 is a side view of the same; Fig. 3 shews part of the same in
front and side and end elevations; Fig. 4 is a side elevation and plan of the mouth
piece part of the same; Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation illustrating another
arrangement of my invention; Fig. 6 is a front and side view of another con-
struction of my invention; and Figs. 7 and 8 shew parts of which the cycle alarm
represented by Fig. 6 is formed.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures of the drawings.
In one arrangement of my invention illustrated by Figs. 1 to 4 both inclusive,
I provide a short piece of indiarubber tube A one end a¹ of which is circular in
cross section and stretched over a bone or other mouth piece B which has a central
hole 6. At the other end a², and for a short distance from this end a², the
indiarubber tube A is flattened which (as will readily be understood) has to be
done during the process of manufacture. The flattened part a² of the indiarubber
tube thus forms two lips so that by blowing down the tube through the mouth
piece B these lips are by the air passing through them caused to vibrate and a
musical or other sound is produced.
If desired, instead of employing the separate mouth piece B, the end a¹ of the
indiarubber tube A can be made hard so as to go into the mouth and enable the
mouth piece B to be dispensed with.
The instrument above described can if desired be combined with and fixed in
the mouth of a horn or trumpet like or other metal tube C (see Fig. 5) so as to
increase the sound, the mouth piece B forming the mouth end of the trumpet C
and the lips a² being inside the trumpet with freedom to vibrate when the instru-
ment is blown as above described. Different notes and tones can be produced by
varying the size and thickness of the lips a³, that is to say, by increasing their
width the tone is lowered and by making the lips thicker the tone is raised.
Instead of making the lip part a² from a short piece of round indiarubber tube
which is flattened at and for a certain distance from the end through which the
air issues as in the arrangement illustrated by Figs. 1 to 4 the indiarubber tube A
may be flattened from end to end (see Figs. 6 and 8) and thus form a portion
which is cut off a long flattened indiarubber tube the upper end of the said piece
of flattened tube A being expanded by being stretched over the lower end 62 of
the mouth piece B for admitting air to be forced between the lips a² to make the
sound as above described.
The mouth piece represented by Figs. 6 and 7 is made of metal and is oval in
cross section the lower end 62 having a narrow opening through which the air
issues between the lips a².
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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1. The herein described improved cycle alarm or musical instrument to be
operated by the mouth or other air blast, consisting essentially of a short flattened
indiarubber tube having one end fitted with a mouth piece or adapted to be held
in the mouth and to be blown into, the flattened part forming lips which vibrate
and produce a musical or other sound when air is blown through them, sub-
stantially as described.
2. The combination with a horn or trumpet, of a short flattened indiarubber
tube having one end fitted with a mouth piece, or adapted to be held in the
mouth and to be blown into, the said flattened part being enclosed in the smaller

page_text: end of the horn or trumpet and opening towards the larger end and forming lips
which vibrate and produce a musical or other sound when air is blown through
them and through the horn or trumpet substantially as described.
Dated this 26th day of July 1900.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.