Improvements in Toy Wind Musical Instruments.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application. 26th Oct., 1893--Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toy Wind Musical Instruments.
I, ANTON RICHARD BREINL, of Graslitz, Bohemia, in the Empire of Austria,
Musical Toy Instrument Manufacturer, 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 present invention relates to a toy-trumpet or other wind instrument by
means of which and with the help of a suitable music sheet, tunes and melodies
may be played; the music sheet covering the opening of the vibrating reeds, of
which only such are left uncovered, as are necessary for producing the required
notes.
After each breath into or suction from the instrument, the music sheet is pushed
(or drawn) forward by the hand until the next opening of the music sheet comes
over the respective opening of the instrument. The operations of blowing into
the instrument and moving forward the music sheet thus come to take place
alternately, and if they succeed each other at suitable intervals, it becomes possible
by using different music sheets to play different tunes or melodies.
It should be noted that this arrangement can be applied to various kinds of toy-
wind-instruments such for example as trumpets, wood clarionettes, stop-trumpets,
flute-accordeons, etc.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 represents a view of a toy-trumpet or horn provided with this
arrangement.
Figure 2 is a section on the line of Fig. 1, and
Figure 3 a section on the line y-y of the same fig:
Figure 4 represents a music sheet on a diminished scale, containing a song from
the comic opera "Don Cæsar."
The reeds z are attached to a zinc plate a which is connected with another plate b
of softer material such as paste-board or felt. The plate e which terminates in
small spring plates or tongues d serves as a guide for the ribbon-shaped music sheet A,
which is adjustable between the plates c and 6 being pressed against plate by the
tongues d.
The trumpet is stopped at e so that the air blown into it is compelled to escape
by the openings in which the reeds are placed.
In consequence of this arrangement, when no music sheet is inserted, all the
reeds are set vibrating by blowing into the instrument, while if a music sheet is
inserted only such reeds vibrate as are not covered by the sheet.
As stated in the introduction, after each blow into or draw from the instrument
the music sheet is moved forward by the hand in the direction of the arrow I
(Figures 1, 2 and 4) for the production of the note next following.
The ribbon shaped music sheet A is made of an elastic material such for example
as paste board or metal plate.
The breathing which accompanies the playing of the instrument when the latter
is blown into, leads in time to an accumulation of moisture, which if no means
are provided for its discharge would have an injurious effect on the whole
arrangement.
To obviate this a water valve k is arranged at the lower part of the instrument,
from which the water which has accumulated in it may from time to time be
discharged

page_text: 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
1. In toy wind musical instruments a ribbon shaped music sheet A provided with
rectangular slots which is guided between two plates b and c and pressed by the
tongues d against the openings in which the reeds are arranged such music sheet
being moved forward by the hand after each blow into or draw through the
instrument whereby only such reeds are made to sound as are uncovered by the
slots of the music sheet corresponding to them at the particular time substantially
as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In toy wind musical instruments such as described in the preceding claim the
employment of a water valve such as k for the discharge of the moisture which has
accumulated in the instrument substantially as described.
3. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete toy wind
musical instrument substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Deted this 26th day of October 1802
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.