Improvements in or connected with Chin Rests and Shoulder Pads for Violins and like Musical Instruments.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 17th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Chin Rests and Shoulder Pads
for Violins and like Musical Instruments.
We WILLIAM HENRY HILL, ARTHUR FREDERICK HILL and Alfred
EBSWORTH HILL all of 38 New Bond Street in the County of London Violin
Makers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a chin rest and shoulder pad for violins
and like musical instruments which rests and pads and their attachments are so
constructed that they are very efficient in use and can be readily attached and
detached and whilst they are firmly held on the instrument there is no danger of
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injury being done to the instrument by excessive grip upon the instrument.
also provide an improved detachable arm or extension by means of which the
shoulder pad can be supported at any required distance from the rest proper.
According to this invention the chin rest proper is provided with a part or
attachment to rest upon the edge of the belly of the instrument and a part or
attachment to rest against the edge of the back of the instrument the said two parts
or attachments being connected with each other, for instance by grooves or turned
In the one part
over edges in the one in which the edges of the other engage.
there is formed a slot parallel with the parts which bear on the edges of the
instrument and in the other part is a diagonal or inclined slot. Through both
these slots the axis of a double pinion passes. One pinion engages with teeth
tormed on the edges, or on one of the edges, of the inclined slot and the other
pinion engages with teeth formed on the edges or one of the edges of the parallel
slot. Or there may be but one pinion and the axis itself may be made to engage
with one of the series of teeth. The axis is provided with a head by means of
which the pinions can be turned so that the said pinions run along the teeth to
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adapt the device to the particular instrument with which it is to be used.
axis is very conveniently turned by means of a coin the head upou the said axis
being nicked like a screw head with a nick which will take some common coin.
In order to support the pad in other positions than just beneath the rest proper
we provide an arm which at one end is fitted to be secured to the part of the rest
attachment to which the pad would otherwise be fixed and at the other end is
provided with means by which the pad can be secured to it.
Either, or both, of these securings of the pad to the arm and the arm to the rest
can be effected by a beaded pin on the one entering a hole in the other and then
being slidden along a slot which is narrow enough to allow the shank to pass but
not the head and the head may be retained in its securing position by a spring or
filling piece bearing against it so as to prevent the head returning to the unfastening
position until the spring or filling piece is turned out of the way.
Dated this 29th day of May 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.

page_text: Improvements in or connected with Chin Rests and Shoulder Pads
for Violins and like Musical Instruments.
We, WILLIAM HENRY HILL, ARTHUR FREDERICK HILL and ALFRED
EBSWORTH HILL all of 38 New Bond Street in the County of London, Violin
Makers 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 object of this invention is to provide a chin rest and shoulder pad for violins
and like musical instruments, which rests and pads and their attachments, are so
constructed that they are very efficient in use and can be readily attached and
detached, and, whilst they are firmly held on the instrument, there is no danger of
injury being done to the instrument by excessive grip upon the instrument.
We
also provide an improved detachable arm, or extension, by means of which the
shoulder pad can be supported at any required distance from the rest proper.
We will describe this invention with reference to the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is an inside view; Figure 2 a side view; and Figure 3 a section; of a
combined chin rest and shoulder pad, according to this invention, Figure 2 shews
the detachable arm in place, Figure 4 is a plan of the detachable arın separately.
According to this invention the chin rest proper A is provided with a part, or
attachment, a (which may be covered with cork, or other soft substance) with a
turned-in part to rest upon the edge of the belly of the instrument (indicated at X)
and a part, or attachment, a² (which may also be similarly covered) with a turned-in
part to rest against the edge of the back of the instrument, the said two parts, or
attachments being connected with each other, so that they can be moved upon each
other, for instance by grooves, or turned-over edges, in the one, in which the edges
of the other engage, as shewn in the drawing. In the one part a, there is formed a
slot which is shewn as being parallel with the parts which bear on the edges of the
instrument, and in the other part a² is a diagonal, or inclined, slot 6. Through both
these slots the axis of a double pinion c passes, the said axis being provided with
heads for retaining it in place. One pinion c³ engages with teeth 63, formed on the
edges or on one of the edges, of the inclined slot and the other pinion c³, engages
with teeth formed on the edges, or on one of the edges of the other slot b. Or
there may be but one pinion and the axis itself may be made so as to engage with the
series of teeth of one of the slots. The axis c is provided with a nicked head c
by means of which the pinions can be turned so that the said pinions run along
the teeth so as to lengthen and shorten as required the distance between the
turned in parts of the attachments a a² to adapt the device to the particular
instrument with which it is to be used. The axis c is very conveniently turned by
means of a coin, the head upon the said axis being nicked like a screw-head with
a nick which will take some common coin such for instance as a sixpenny piece,
and, if such a coin be used, such undue force as is likely to injure the instrument
cannot readily be applied.
The pad D, attached to the turned-in part of the attachment a², preferably by
a hole and slot in the one, and a beaded pin on the other, the head being passed
through the hole, and then the parts moved so that the head of the pin passes
beneath the slot and the stem engages with the said slot.
In order to support the pad D in other positions than just beneath the rest
proper as shewn in Figures 1 and 3, we provide an arm E, which, at one end, is
fitted to be secured to the part a² of the rest attachment, to which the pad would
otherwise be fixed, and, at the other end, is provided with means by which the pad
can be secured to it.

page_text: Either, or both, of these securings of the pad to the arm, and the arm to the
rest, can be effected by the arrangement like that herein before described, viz. :-
a headed pin on the one entering a hole in the other, and then being slidden along
a slot which is narrow enough to allow the shank to pass but not the head, and
the head may be retained in its securing position by a spring or filling piece e,
bearing against it, so as to prevent the head returning to the unfastening position
until the spring, or filling piece, is turned out of the way, for which purpose it may
be turned on its securing pin e³, as shewn in Figure 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A rest for violins and like musical instruments the said rest being provided
with parts for bearing on the belly and back of the instrument, the said parts being
connected by attachments which can be moved relatively to each other and having
slots therein through which a pin passes which pin is provided with means for
rotating it as described and with pinions or circular series of teeth or the
equivalent for engaging with teeth on the edges of the said slots substantially as
hereinbefore described.
2. For use with a combined chin rest and shoulder pad for violins and like
musical instruments the detachable arm provided with means for securing it to
the pad and to the frame of the rest, substantially as, and for the purpose,
hereinbefore described.
3. The combination and arrangement, of parts constituting a combined chin
rest and shoulder pad, as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings whether with, or without the detachable arm.
Dated this 17th day of December 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.